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Building Global Action
- 07 Feb 2012 -Jos Delbeke's speech during the conference "A New Flightplan - Getting global aviation climate measures off the ground"
[23 KB] - 12 Jan 2012 - EU Reservation to Council Decision on Joint Declaration [13 KB]
- 02 Nov 2011 - Minutes of the ICAO Council meeting [307 KB]
- 29 Sep 2011 - Commission presentation on aviation in the EU ETS at the ICAO Council Briefing [611 KB]
- Oct-Nov 2010 - Reservations to the 2010 ICAO Assembly Resolution on Climate Change [1.11 MB]
- 07 Oct 2010 - 2010 ICAO Assembly Resolution on Climate Change [204 KB]
- 2008 - ICAO guidance on the use of emissions trading for aviation [365 KB]
Implementing 'stop-the-clock'
- 16 Apr 2013 - Flights that benefit from the derogation ("exempted flights") [19 KB]
- 18 Apr 2013 - Step by step instructions [3.84 MB]
The legal case of ATA against the EU ETS
- 21 Dec 2011 - Documents related to the ATA against the EU ETS
Main EU ETS and aviation legislation
- 20 Nov 2012 - COM(2012) 697 - Proposal for a Decision of the European Parliament and Council derogating temporarily from Directive 2003/87/EC establishing a scheme for greenhouse gas emission allowance trading within the Community [54 KB]
- 19 Nov 2008 - Directive 2008/101/EC - Amending Directive 2003/87/EC so as to include aviation activities in the scheme for greenhouse gas emission allowance trading within the Community
- 13 Oct 2003 - Directive 2003/87/EC - Establishing a scheme for greenhouse gas emission allowance trading within the Community and amending Council Directive 96/61/EC
Implementing legislation
- 20 Jul 2011 - EEA JC Decision 93/2011 [20 KB] - has incorporated the Commission Decision on the Union–wide quantity of allowances for aviation into the EEA agreement and has established EEA-wide quantities of allowances for aviation
- 01 Jul 2011 - EEA JC Decision 87/2011 [16 KB] - has incorporated the Commission Decision on Union-wide historical aviation emissions into the EEA agreement and has established an EEA-wide figure for historical aviation emissions
- 20 Apr 2011 - Reglement 394/2011: List of aircraft operators further to the expansion of the Union emission trading scheme to EEA-EFTA countries
- 07 Mar 2011 - Commission Decision 2011/149/EU - Historical aviation emissions pursuant to Article 3c(4) of Directive 2003/87/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing a scheme for greenhouse gas emission allowance trading within the Community
- 08 Jun 2009 - Commission Decision 2009/450/EC - Detailed interpretation of the aviation activities listed in the Annex I to Directive 2003/87/EC
- 16 Apr 2009 - Commission Decision 2009/339/EC - Inclusion of monitoring and reporting guidelines for emissions and tonne-kilometre data from aviation activities
Process for the inclusion of aviation in the EU Emissions Trading System
- 19 Sep 2008 - COM/2008/0548 - Communication on the European Parliament's amendments to the Council's Common Position
- 08 Jul 2008 - 2006/0304(COD) - Resolution of the European Parliament on the Council common position on the Commission's proposal
- 22 Apr 2008 - COM/2008/221 - Communication of the European Commission on the Council's common position [25 KB]
- 18 Apr 2008 - 2006/0304(COD) - Common Position of the Council on the proposal [232 KB]
- 20 Dec 2007 - Political agreement reached by the Environment Ministers on the Council's first reading position on the Commission's proposal [199 KB]
- 13 Nov 2007 - First reading position of the European Parliament on the Commission's proposal
- 10 Oct 2007 - Opinion of the Committee of the Regions stating it agrees with the Commission that aviation should be included in the ETS
- 08 Jun 2007 - Council Conclusions on the position to be taken by EU Member States at the ICAO Assembly in September 2007 in relation to the inclusion of aviation in the EU Emissions Trading System [128 KB]
- 31 May 2007 - Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee welcoming the Commission's proposal as a "carefully considered and pragmatic approach" to address emissions from aviation [58 KB]
- 20 Dec 2006 - Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Directive 2003/87/EC so as to include aviation activities in the scheme for greenhouse gas emission allowance trading within the Community
- 04 Jul 2006 - Resolution of the European Parliament in response to the Commission's Communication
- Apr 2006 - Opinion of the European Economic and Social Commitee on the Commission's Communication
- 16 Dec 2005 - European Council conclusions [194 KB]
- Dec 2005 - Supportive conclusions of the Environment Council
- 27 Sep 2005 - Communication of the European Commission outlining plans to reduce the impact of aviation on climate change
Working groups
- Apr 2006 - Final report of the Aviation working group bringing together experts from Member States and industry, consumer and environmental organisations [194 KB]
- 2005-2006 - Background documents and minutes from working group meetings
Other useful documents
- 20 Dec 2006 - Summary Impact Assessment [274 KB] bg cs da de el en es et fi fr hu it lt lv mt nl pl pt ro sk sl sv
- 20 Dec 2006 - Full impact assessment [1.09 MB]
- 27 Sep 2005 - Preliminary impact assessment [465 KB]
- Jul 2005 - Study on the possibility of including aviation in the EU Emissions Trading System [2.12 MB]
- 2005 - Report [328 KB] on the public consultation on Reducing the Climate Change Impact of Aviation from 11 March until 6 May 2005