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All flights that arrive at or depart from an airport situated in the territory of an EU Member State will be included in the ETS. Airlines falling under EU ETS are required to comply in two areas:
To qualify for free allowances, aircraft operators need to prepare a monitoring plan on tonne-kilometre data and get this plan submitted by the end of August 2009. Based on this monitoring plan, each airline must have systems in place to register the tonne-kilometre data of all ETS-relevant flights operated in 2010. The tonne-kilometre data will be included in the application of free allowances that has to be submitted to the authorities by the first quarter of 2011.
Airlines also are required to comply with regulations set up for annual reporting of CO2 emissions. Similar to the tonne-kilometre data, airlines need to prepare a monitoring plan for emissions and get verification of this plan from an independent verifier. The deadline for submission to the authorities is end of August 2009. In addition, systems need to be in place for monitoring emissions from flights falling under EU ETS starting January 1, 2010. The first annual emissions report must be filed in Q1/2011.
Although the ETS compliance cycle looks straightforward, there may be complications that need to be factored in to how an airline responds:
- ETS requires a large number of data per individual flight, coming from actual flight records, fuel documents and load sheets.
- All ETS relevant data and processes must undergo verification and auditing.
- Airlines normally have all required data available in their organization. However, these data are held in various systems at different locations and departments and may be stored in incompatible formats. Consolidation is required to use the data for ETS purposes.
- The process of converting the available data into ETS-relevant information can be time consuming.