Compagnie aeree ed ETS


EU suspends aviation inclusion in ETS for international flights

By Anne Paylor | November 12, 2012

The aviation industry has welcomed the European Commission’s decision to suspend its Emissions Trading System (ETS) for flights into and out of Europe for a period of one year to allow time for ICAO to finalize a global scheme (ATW Daily News, Oct. 1).
EU Commissioner for Climate Action Connie Hedegaard said the decision to “stop the clock” on ETS was “a gesture of good faith” taken in response to last Friday’s ICAO council meeting. That meeting agreed to initiate a high-level political process to whittle down the three options currently under consideration for a regulatory market-based mechanism (MBM) to a single preferred solution. Of particular relevance to the Commission was the council’s explicit reference to the need for a global MBM.
Hedegaard said: “Our regulatory scheme was adopted after having waited many years for ICAO to progress. Now it seems that because of some countries' dislike of our scheme many countries are prepared to move in ICAO, and even to move toward a Market Based Mechanism at global level.”
However, she stressed the EU was not willing to wait indefinitely and that if progress within ICAO was not forthcoming at next autumn’s ICAO Assembly, the inclusion of international aviation in the ETS would be reactivated.
"Let me be very clear: if this exercise does not deliver—and I hope it does, then needless to say we are back to where we are today with the EU ETS. Automatically," Hedegaard said.
She called on all parties to ICAO “to engage urgently to take advantage of the window of opportunity that the EU was offering.”
The suspension means the EU will not require allowances to be surrendered in April 2013 for emissions to and from the EU during 2012. The monitoring and reporting obligations will also be deferred for such flights. However, the obligations relating to all flights within the EU remain unchanged.
IATA DG and CEO Tony Tyler said the Commission’s decision “clearly recognizes the progress that has been made towards a global solution for managing aviation’s carbon emissions by ICAO.”
He said that details of how the suspension would be administered at a technical level remained to be clarified, and the proposal still needed ratification by EU states and Parliament. However, it reflected EU willingness to “create the space” for the ICAO process to succeed.
“The flexibility shown by the European Commission demonstrates that the ICAO process is working, and we look forward to seeing all parties working together to present positive proposals to the ICAO Assembly in September 2013,” Tyler said.

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Industry welcomes ETS developments, but EU airlines subdued

By Anne Paylor | November 12, 2012

For the most part, the air transport industry has reacted positively to the news that the European Commission (EC) has agreed to suspend application of its controversial Emissions Trading System (ETS) to flights operating to and from Europe until after the ICAO Assembly next fall (ATW Daily News, Nov. 12).
Airbus CEO Fabrice Brégier said: “Last week’s ICAO Council brings the aviation industry one step closer to a coordinated, globally acceptable approach to better manage civil aviation emissions. The positive cooperation between ICAO and the European Commission provides the international community with a real chance to make progress on a worldwide agreement on aviation CO2 emissions.”
The response from Europe’s airlines has been more subdued because intra-EU flights are still included in the ETS. The moratorium is nevertheless acknowledged as a means of breaking the deadlock on global aviation emissions and averting a potential trade war over the issue. The US, China and India have spearheaded international opposition to the scheme and have threatened retaliatory action (ATW Daily News, Feb. 23).
The Assn. of European Airlines (AEA) said the EC’s decision “firmly placed the task of finding an effective mechanism to manage airlines’ CO2 emissions in the hands of ICAO—which is where, AEA has consistently argued, it should have been all along.”
AEA acting Secretary General Athar Husain Khan said: “As international tensions over the issue have escalated, European airlines have been facing the very real prospect of discrimination and retaliation in our most important global markets. Indeed, some AEA members have already encountered operational obstacles with regard to certain countries.”
However, AEA said the continued inclusion of intra-EU flights in the ETS was “clearly an unsatisfactory situation in anything but the shortest term.” Khan said that “since these are such a tiny proportion of worldwide CO2, it shows the inability of a purely regional scheme to have a meaningful impact on what is a global issue.”
A lone voice of dissent, the European Low Fares Airline Assn. (ELFAA) said it “strongly condemns” the EC's decision.
ELFAA Secretary General John Hanlon said: “To continue to require compliance in respect of intra-EU flights only is to not only impugn the environmental credentials of EU ETS but to impose a highly unfair and discriminatory burden on EU citizens flying within Europe.”
ELFAA has been a staunch supporter of the EU ETS as an appropriate market mechanism, conditional on its environmental effectiveness. It argues that 80% of EU aviation emissions result from long-haul flights and only 20% from intra-EU, so “the proposed reduction in scope would clearly forfeit EU ETS any valid claim to environmental effectiveness.”
ELFAA said the European Parliament should not “countenance such a discriminatory and highly distortive retreat by the Commission in response to political pressure” and insist that any moratorium be extended to all flights within the scope of EU ETS.”
Ryanair similarly urged complete removal of aviation from the ETS and not just foreign carriers that “refused to pay for the misplaced environmental guilt of EU tree-huggers.” It said the continuation of the eco tax “will damage traffic, tourism, European competiveness and jobs at a time when no other economic block is including aviation in their ETS schemes” (ATW Daily News, Jan. 13).

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In pratica gli europagliacci di Bruxelles hanno sconigliato di fronte a cinesi e americani che hanno mostrato i denti, ma continueranno a tassare esclusivamente le compagnie comunitarie nelle tratte intra-UE.
In questo modo renderanno intrinsecamente più deboli le compagnie del vecchio continente nella competizione globale, cosa della quale non si sentiva affatto il bisogno.
 
La classica figura di caXXa. Forti con i deboli e deboli con i forti, il vero inno dell'unione europea (minuscole non casuali).
 
Per una volta pero' la decisione e' quella giusta - un'imposizione a livello locale per le emissioni di CO2 e' totalmente inefficace ed e' solamente una turbativa alla concorrenza.
Durante la prossima assemblea generale dell'ICAO in settembre bisognera' arrivare ad una soluzione sottoscrivibile da tutti i Paesi (e non sara' facile) per evitare che tutto vada a "schifio".
 
13/11/2012 - 17:42 GV
Ryanair si scaglia contro l'Ets
Il vettore fa appello all'Ue opponendosi alla tassa contro le emissioni di CO2: " L’aviazione europea incide per meno del 2%"

Ryanair, si scaglia contro l'Ets, la tassa europea sulle emissioni di CO2. Il vettore ha fatto appello all’Ue affinché abolisca il suo "fallimentare piano Ets dopo essere stata obbligata a “esentare” le compagnie aeree straniere dallo schema, a seguito della forte opposizione da parte dei governi e delle aerolinee statunitensi e asiatiche", commenta la nota. Ryanair ritiene che l’Ets "sia ora soltanto un’altra tassa sui passeggeri aerei d’Europa, che aumenta i costi dell’aviazione europea rendendola anti-competitiva, senza fare nulla per le emissioni di anidride carbonica dell’Ue". Ryanair non ritiene che l’aviazione europea debba essere inclusa nel piano Ets "poiché incide per meno del 2% sulle emissioni di CO2 dell’Ue".
 
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