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Starting from 1 January 2012 all aircraft operators performing flights arriving at or departing from any airport situated in the territory of the European Union or an EEA-EFTA country (Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway) will be included in the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS). To reduce administrative costs, each aircraft operator will be administered by a single Member State.
There are two criteria to determine an administering Member State for an aircraft operator. When an aircraft operator is based in the European Union or an EEA-EFTA country and has a valid operating license issued by one of the states, this country will administer an aircraft operator. In all other cases, it will be the state with the greatest estimated attributed aviation emissions performed by that aircraft operator in the base year.
The inclusion of aircraft operators in the EU Emissions Trading System is linked to the performance of an aviation activity listed in Annex I to Directive 2003/87/EC and is not subject to inclusion on the list. This means that aircraft operators performing aviation activities are covered by the EU ETS whether or not they appear in the list of aircraft operators. Likewise aircraft operators which stop operating flights are excluded from the scheme once they cease to perform an aviation activity listed in Annex I and have surrendered the relevant allowances, rather than at the point when they are removed from the list.
Before 1 February each year, the Commission will update the list of aircraft operators to include the new entrants that started performing aviation activities in the previous year.
Before 1 February each year the Commission has an obligation to update the list of aircraft operators in order to include the new entrants that started performing aviation activities in the previous year. The latest list of aircraft operators was adopted on 3 February 2012. This list contains 29 EEA countries, as the aviation part of the EU ETS covers EEA-EFTA countries. At present there is no aircraft operator allocated to Liechtenstein.
Each Member State and EEA-EFTA state has appointed a competent authority for the implementation of the inclusion of aviation to the EU ETS (see the "Documentation" section on top of this page). Aircraft operators who are on the list, but are not yet in contact with their competent authority are advised to get in touch.
To further improve the accuracy of the list of aircraft operators, the European Commission will continue the fleet lists collection process. The fleet list form
[145 KB] was last updated on 2 December 2011.
Only fleet lists submitted by 9 December will be considered for the list of operators to be updated by 1 February 2012. In order to facilitate the process, aircraft operators may pre-submit their fleet list to Eurocontrol (ets.info@eurocontrol.int) for initial verification prior to submitting it to the European Commission. Eurocontrol will then check that all information required for processing has been provided. Howerer, any pre-verification from the part of Eurocontrol does not entail that the submission to the Commission is not required. On the contray, the Fleet List still has to be officially submitted to the European Commission. Otherwise, it will not be processed.
The completed form is to be submitted to the European Commission, to the address ENV-EU-ETS-AIRCRAFT-OPERATOR-LIST@ec.europa.eu.
The following aircraft operators should submit their fleet lists to the Commission:
You can find the prior compliance list, updated to reflect the changes to the list of aircraft operators adopted on 20 April 2011, in the "Documentation" tab on top of this page.