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ENVI MEPs back continuation of EU ETS ‘stop the clock’ until 2020 pending ICAO CORSIA outcome

18/07/2017



Members of the European Parliament’s environment committee (ENVI) have unanimously backed a proposal for continuing with the exclusion of CO2 emissions from intercontinental flights from the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS), but only until 2020. The ‘stop the clock’ derogation, which limits the scope of the trading scheme to intra-EEA (European Economic Area) flights, automatically ended in December 2016 and requires new legislation to extend it. The issue will come before a full plenary in September, followed by trilogue talks with the Council. The derogation was agreed to allow negotiations to continue at ICAO on the global CORSIA carbon offsetting scheme to start in 2021 but ENVI MEPs want to see the final details before agreeing to yet a further extension. They also proposed the rules be tightened on aviation’s participation in the EU ETS from 2021 to bring it into line with other industrial sectors. [...]

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