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The Aug. 31 deadline for operators into the EU to submit their monitoring plans under the Emissions
13/08/2009
The Aug. 31 deadline for operators into the EU to submit their monitoring plans under the Emissions Trading System has been thrown into confusion by the UK's announcement that it does not have "a firm and agreed list" of operators to be regulated by each member state.
The list was "originally scheduled to be published in February" but now is expected by the middle of August. "Until this list is formally published we are legally unable to lay the first stage regulations transposing the Aviation EU ETS Directive. We remain committed to including aviation in the EU ETS from 2012," the UK government said.
The government has finalized the first-stage regulations transposing the ETS Directive and the country's Dept. of Energy and Climate Change has published the final draft of its first stage regulations on its website, but for "information only."
After the EU publishes the final airline/operator lists, the regulations will be put before parliament and these will come into force 21 days later and require aircraft operators to submit emissions monitoring plans to their UK regulator within eight weeks. The effect of the delay is to extend out to the end of October the submission of the monitoring and benchmarking plans for operators to claim free allowances up to 2020.
There also appears to be some confusion among member states about the legality of the operator lists already published by the EU. Sebastian Gallehr of German consultancy Gallehr + Partner said in a statement that "it could be argued that the EC had already published its list of operators and it was each operator's own responsibility to identify whether it is affected by the EU ETS or not."
Source Eco Aviation Today
