Requirements emissions trading

Emissions trading timeline and obligations
The emissions trading scheme for aviation will start in 2012, so that will be the first year over which participating operators must surrender emission allowances. Under the directive, however, operators are required to start monitoring emissions and to report them annually from 2010 onwards.

The years 2010 and 2011 have been declared 'pre-trading' monitoring periods, i.e. the emissions for those years must be monitored and reported to the administering Member State, but no emission allowances will need to be surrendered yet.

The emissions report must be verified (on the instructions of the operator) by an independent verifier. The verified emissions report must be submitted to NEa before 1 April of the next year, starting early 2011 for emissions over 2010. From 2013 onwards, sufficient emission allowances must be surrendered annually for the previous year.