EU ETS for Aviation

All aircraft operators arriving or deparing in an EU memberstate  have to comply with the EU ETS for Aviation. In order to do so, an approved monitoring plan for CO2-emmisions is required.

November 2011: Following the European Commission's announcement on 26 September 2011 of the benchmark values, which will be used to calculate the free allocation of allowances for aviation operators up to 2020, the Danish Energy Agency has calculated the levels of free allocation its regulated EU ETS aviation operators will receive in each year in the period 2012-2020.
The allocations have been calculated by applying the European Commission published benchmark values to the 2010 verified activity data (tonne-kilometre data) submitted by operators. Please note allocations to aircraft operators may be adjusted should an act pursuant to Article 25a of Directive 2003/87/EC be adopted.

Danish free allocation levels for EU ETS aircraft operators


General information

Under the EU ETS Denmark is the administering member state of primarily Danish operators but also a number of foreign operators.

Non-EU operators has been assigned to administering member states based on the country where they had the largest attributed emissions in the period from 2006-2008. 

All operators flying in the EU must comply with the same requirements regarding monitoring and reporting of CO2 emissions and ton-kilometre data.

All flights departing or arriving in the EU is included in the scheme. Flights covered by specific exemptions are excluded. These are specified in the annex to the directive and interpreted in the guidelines on exemptions.  

For the general EU introduction to the ETS for aviation please see: Guidance document on EU ETS for aviation