Aviation in the European Union Emission
Trading Scheme
Activities calendar of aviation integration in ETS
Departamento de Alterações Climáticas, Ar e Ruído (DACAR)
Divisão de Poluição Atmosférica e Alterações Climáticas (DPAAC)
29th of May 2009, Auditório da APA
Activities calendar of aviation integration in ETS
Contents
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Implementation of Directive 2008/101/EC, 19th of November
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Current “negotiation” process: Committee and Working groups
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Tasks in progress
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Calendar of aviation integration in ETS
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Legislation foresees penalties
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Next steps
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Activities calendar of aviation integration in ETS
Implementation of Directive 2008/101/EC,
19th of November
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Directive published
13.01.2009;
on
Official
Journal
of
the
EU
on
Entry into force on 02.02.2009;
The Member-States (MS) have to transpose it until 02nd of
February 2010.
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Implementation of Directive 2008/101/EC,
19th of November
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Directive’s Implementation:
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The aim of European Commission (EC) was to publish the
list with the pair Operator – Member-State until
01.02.2009 (Art. 18a(3)(a));
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Every year the list will be updated by the EC until 01st
February;
Until 02.08.2009 EC takes a decision about the aviation
historic emissions (Art. 3.º-C(4));
The Directive foresees that several issues
legislation shall be approved by the Committee.
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Current “negotiation” process: Committee and Working groups
Climate Change Committee (APA)
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WG1 – Inventory of emissions (APA)
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WG2 - Policies & Measures/ Reporting (APA/CECAC)
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WG3 - European Emissions Trading Scheme (APA)
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WG4 – CO2 cars (APA/?)
Technical working group of Aviation in ETS/stakeholders
To prepare and discuss techical documents
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Current “negotiation” process:
Committee and Working groups
Technical working group of Aviation in ETS (APA/INAC)
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There were 10 meetings since October 2008;
The group prepared: Monitoring Decision, templates to
submit emissions Monitoring Plan and t-km Monitoring
Plan, as well as templates to report the annual emissions
and t-km data;
This group will meet periodically to discuss the matters
related to the Directive’s implementation of Aviation’s
integration in ETS.
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Current “negotiation” process:
Committee and Working groups
ETS Compliance Forum
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Additional mechanism created by the EC and MS to help in
the harmonized development of ETS, it was approved in
January by the Climate Change Committee, to whom
reports;
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It occurred 5 meetings which in APA participated;
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The involvement of the MS is voluntarily.
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Activities calendar of aviation integration in ETS
Current “negotiation” process:
Committee and Working groups
ETS Compliance Forum
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So far were produced the following documents:
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Q&A Report on EU ETS Aviation;
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Aviation guidance;
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Examples of Monitoring Plans for annual emissions
and for t-km.
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Activities calendar of aviation integration in ETS
Current “negotiation” process:
Committee and Working groups
ETS Compliance Forum
 Prevêem-se as seguintes tarefas:
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Harmonized validation of Monitoring Plans;
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Enforcement & Sanctions;
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Preparing for validating t-km & annual emissions
reports;
E-reporting and the use of IT in ETS.
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Activities calendar of aviation integration in ETS
Current “negotiation” process:
Committee and Working groups
ETS Compliance Forum
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There will be a Conference of Compliance on the 3rd and
4th of September, the debate will focus on the
mentioned subjects and others related to ETS in
general, always with the aim of harmonizing procedures
among the MS in the implementation of ETS.
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Activities calendar of aviation integration in ETS
Current “negotiation” process:
Committee and Working groups
• Other important meetings
- Meetings of stakeholders, organized by the EC and also
Eurocontrol, with the participation of the MS;
- DGTren in cooperation with DGEnv, both directories of EC,
promoted a meeting among the MS to discuss the matters related
with the verification of the compliance with ETS by the aircraft
operators (AO) from outside EU.
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Current “negotiation” process:
Committee and Working groups
• Documents approved by comitology:
- Commission Decision 2009/339/CE, of 16 April 2009
- amending Decision 2007/589/CE as regards the inclusion
of monitoring and reporting guidelines for emissions and t-km
data from Aviation activities;
- Guidelines on the detailed interpretation of aviation activities
listed in Annex I of Directive 2008/101/CE
- the purpose of these guidelines is to clarify about the
aviation activities included in and those excluded from ETS.
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Tasks in progress
• List of pair Operator - MS
- EC adopted a preliminary list on 11.02.2009;
- the traffic data used refers to 2006, 2007 and 2008;
- 101 aircraft operators were allocated to Portugal.
23%
77%
Operadores da EU
Operadores Não-UE
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EUA
PORTUGAL
BRASIL
ÁFRICA DO SUL
CANADÁ
NIGÉRIA
ESPANHA
SÃO TOMÉ E PRINCIPE
ANGOLA
REINO UNIDO
SUÍÇA
AUSTRÁLIA
VENEZUELA
EMIRADOS ÁRABES UNIDOS
TAILÂNDIA
POLÓNIA
PERU
MAURITÂNIA
MALI
MACAU (CHINA)
JORDÂNIA
GUINÉ-BISSAU
ALEMANHA
GÂMBIA
CABO VERDE
BARBADOS
ARUBA (NETH), NETHERLANDS ANTILLES
16
9
8
6
4
3
3
3
2
2
2
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
0
5
10
15
20
25
N.º OPERADORES ALOCADOS A PT POR PAÍS DE ORIGEM
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Tasks in progress
• List of pair Operator - MS
- public consultation until 31.03.2009;
- PT sent the comments on time, the main notes were: 70 of
101 aircraft operators (AO) were identified as being in the INAC’s
database with registered movements in national airports/
aerodromes, 31 AO don’t have records of movements in PT and
11 AO are missing in the list;
- in total were received around 80 comments from MS and
stakeholders, that may imply the change of ±500 AO from
administering MS;
- It’s predicted that the final list will be published on the
beginning of July.
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Tasks in progress
• Calculation of historic aviation emissions to establishes the ETS
CAP
- the data used is from 2004 to 2006;
- in the end of April, we received documents with the
methodology of calculation of historic emissions, made by
Eurocontrol and checked by Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
and by INNAXIS Research Institute;
- this methodology was also checked by the
institutions: Air & Climate Change unit of the
Environment Agency, Transport & Air Quality unit of
Research Centre e Environmental Protection unit of the
Aviation Safety Agency;
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European
the Joint
European
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Tasks in progress
• Calculation of historic aviation emissions to establishes the ETS
CAP
- the deadline to comment was short, by the beggining of
May;
- 5 MS sent comments, among those was PT;
- the objective is to present the calculation of historic
aviation emissions to the Climate Change Committee on
17.06.09;
- foresees that the adoption and publication of these data
take place in July.
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Calendar of aviation integration in ETS
• CO2 annual emissions and t-km data
- CE publishes the final list of pair operator-MS: beginning of
July;
- The Aircraft Operator (AO) submits to the Competent Authority
(CA) the annual emissions monitoring plan and the t-km (t-km is
a voluntary procedure, only applicable if AO wants to benefit from
free allowances) until: 31.08.2009;
- The CA approves the annual emissions and t-km monitoring
plans until: 31.12.2009;
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• CO2 annual emissions and t-km data
- The AO begins to monitor and record annual emissions and tkm data (if applicable): 01.01.2010;
- The AO hires an independent entity to verify its t-km report of
2010, which after shall be submited to the CA to require for free
allowances until: 31.03.2011;
The AO hires an independent entity to verify its annual
emissions report of 2010, which after shall be submited to the CA
to require for free allowances until: 31.03.2011;
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• CO2 annual emissions and t-km data
- EC publishes the total number of allowances and benchmark
until: 30.09.2011;
- The AO submits to the CA an updated Monitoring Plan until:
31.08.2011;
The CA transfers the free allowances to each operator’s
account of the Register until: 28.02.2012;
- The AO hires an independent entity to verify its annual
emissions report of 2011, which after shall be submited to the CA
to require for free allowances until: 31.03.2012;
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• CO2 annual emissions and t-km data
- The AO hires an independent entity to verify its annual
emissions report of 2012, which after shall be submited to the CA
to require for free allowances until: 31.03.2013;
- The AO has to surrender allowances to the CA, the amount
corresponds to its CO2 annual emissions of 2012, until:
30.04.2013.
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Legislation foresees Penalties
• Art.º 16 Directive 2008/101/CE;
• Enables fines and operating bans to be used;
• Paragraph 12 provides that detailed rules shall be established in
the scope of comitology.
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Next Steps
• Amendment to the Registries Regulation so to include the
sector of Aviation;
• Regulation on Auctioning;
• Decision on cap and benchmark for free allocation;
• Rules for functioning of special reserve.
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