EU legislation on aviation emission allowances will cover only intra-EU flights until the start of 2017, but will apply to all flights to or from the EU thereafter, says an informal agreement reached by MEPs and the Council Presidency on Tuesday. The legislation would also require EU member states to report on how they spend revenue from auctioning emission allowances.
“The negotiations have been very difficult, but in the end, we succeeded. For the environment, this deal is better than the Council position, but also better than the Commission proposal”, said lead MEP Peter Liese (EPP, DE) on Wednesday.
“The main element of compromise concerns the scope. The Emissions Trading System will again apply in full after 2016. Parliament could not accept the Council’s wish to ‘stop the clock’ until 2020. We have the next International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) assembly in 2016, and if it fails to deliver a global agreement, then nobody could justify our maintaining such an exemption for another four years” he added.
See full Press Release: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/news-room/content/20140303IPR37477/html/Aviation-emissions-MEPs-reach-a-deal-with-Greek-Presidency-of-the-Council
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