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By 1 January 2014, the aviation part of the Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) should expand to Croatia due to the country's planned accession to the EU on 1 July 2013. The scope of the aviation part of the EU ETS will therefore in the future cover some additional flights: the domestic flights within Croatia, as well as those between Croatia and non-EEA countries.
Following the extension of the aviation part of the EU ETS to Croatia, a number of important steps need to be taken, such as the calculation of historical aviation emissions for additional flights, the calculation of the cap and the adoption of the decision on the distribution of allowances.
Aircraft operators performing domestic flights within Croatia and flights between Croatia and non-EEA countries will have the possibility to monitor the tonne-km data for the additional flights in 2012 and to apply for additional free allowances by 31 March 2013.
Eurocontrol identified a number of aircraft operators, which performed domestic flights within Croatia and flights between Croatia and non-EEA countries in 2010. It has also identified aircraft operators who could become new entrants to the EU ETS because they perform these additional flights. See relevant aircraft operators 
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2012 tonne-km monitoring exercise for flights included under the EU ETS from 1 January 2014
If these aircraft operators continue performing such flights in 2012, they may be eligible to perform tonne-km monitoring in 2012 and apply for free allowances in 2013.
The tonne-km monitoring related to Croatian accession is not limited to the operators listed in the table. Any aircraft operator who will perform domestic flights within Croatia or flights between Croatia and non-EEA countries in 2012 and is not exempt from the EU ETS, has a right to participate in the tonne-km exercise in 2012.
In order to be able to apply for free allowances by 31 March 2013, aircrat operators need to submit a specific tonne-km monitoring plan that needs to be approved by the Croatian competent authority before 2012. Therefore stakeholders are urgently invited to contact the Croatian authorities for further details s (see the competent authority contact list [102 KB]).
Aircraft operators are requested to use the following templates for monitoring and reporting the tonne-km data for the additional flights in 2012: Monitoring plan for tonne-kilometre data [154 KB] and Report of tonne-kilometre data [131 KB].
Only the additional tonne-km data related to internal Croatian flights and flights between Croatia and non-EEA third countries should be included.
Monitoring and reporting of emissions from date of accession
The expansion of the EU ETS for aviation to Croatia entails that aircraft operators operating domestic flights within Croatia and flights between Croatia and non-EEA countries will be requested to report their greenhouse gas emissions for these flights from the date of accession of Croatia to the EU (likely to happen by 1 July 2013).
Relevant stakeholders are invited to contact their competent authority if an update of their monitoring plan is necessary.