The European Union has decided to temporarily exempt airlines from reporting carbon emissions for flights between EU airports and third countries.
The European Council on Monday took a decision derogating temporarily from the directive establishing the EU scheme for greenhouse gas emission allowance trading.
The decision intends to reinforce the positive momentum within the International Civil Aviation Organization towards a global market-based approach to reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the aviation sector.
As per the decision, enforcement of the obligations of aircraft operators in respect of incoming and outgoing international flights under the EU emissions trading system for 2012 is temporarily deferred, the Council said in a press release. It also made it clear that sanctions will not be imposed on airline operators for failure to report carbon emissions.
The EU/ETS directive will continue to apply to all intra-EU flights and flights between the EU Member-States and a number of closely connected areas and territories.
The Council said the decision would enter into force on the date of its publication in the Official Journal of the EU, and will apply from the date of its adoption.
In a related decision, the Council on Monday also adopted the regulation on a mechanism for monitoring and reporting greenhouse gas emissions and for reporting other information at national and Union level relevant to climate change. It will replace the current monitoring mechanism, the Council said in a separate press release.
The aim of the new regulation is to enhance the monitoring and reporting framework within the EU, to take account of developments at both Union and international level. In particular, the regulation incorporates new reporting and monitoring requirements arising from the 2009 Climate and Energy Package and from recent decisions adopted under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
The regulation will enter into force 20 days after publication in the Official Journal of the EU.
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