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Main dates :

Past :

• 1st January 2010 : Beginning of the emissions data monitoring and activity data monitoring.
• 31st August 2010 : Deadline to submit emissions monitoring plans for 2011 regarding airlines companies who didn’t.
• 31st December 2010 : End of emissions and activity monitoring year 2010 : realisation of emissions and activity reports which must be verified before being sent to the DGAC.
• 1st January 2011 : Beginning of the emissions monitoring year 2011.
• 31st March 2011 : Deadline to submit verified emissions report and verified activity report and to ask for free allowances for 2012 and for the second period 2013-2020 (associated to the activity report submission).
• 31st August 2011 : Deadline to submit updates of emissions monitoring plans for the first period.
• 2012 : First trading period of one year.
• January 2012 : Opening of the aircraft operators account in the European registries system, and first allocation of free allowances.

To come :

• 31st March 2012 : Deadline to submit verified 2011 emissions report.
• 31st August 2012 : Deadline to submit updates of emissions monitoring plans for the second period (2013-2020).
• 2013 : First year of the second trading period.
• 31 March 2013 : Deadline to submit verified emissions report of 2012.
• 30 April 2013 : Deadline to return emission allowances of 2012.
• 31 August 2013 : Deadline to submit activity monitoring plan for 2014 for new entrants and fast growing aircraft operators.
• 2014 : second year of the second period and beginning of the tonnes-kilometre data monitoring for new entrants.

Main concepts :

The European directive 2008/101/EC amending directive 2003/87/EC so as to include aviation activities in the scheme for greenhouse gas emission allowance was voted on the 19 November 2008. It was published on the 13^th January 2009 and applied since the 2nd February 2009. Its transposition in the French law is completed.

All IFR flights (with MOTW bigger than 5,7t) to or from a country of the European Economic Area are included in the scope of the Directive. There are some exempted flights like humanitarian ones : the Commission published a decision on the detailed interpretation of the aviation activities in or out the scope of the Directive. A link to this decision can be found on the right hand side of this page.

In 2012, the aviation sector allocation of allowances will be limited to 97% of the historical emissions (mean between emissions of 2004, 2005 and 2006), and for the next period, the limit will be 95%.

Among these global amounts of allowances :

• 85% (for 2012) and 82% (for 2013 to 2020) will be allocated freely via a benchmarking procedure to the aircraft operators where the individual allocation for each aircraft operator is proportional to the (reported and verified) tonne kilometre that were flown over the course of the year 2010 (it is the same reference year for the two periods),
• 15% will be put up for auction,
• 3% (for the period 2013-2020) will remain in a special reserve for new entrants and fast growing aircraft operators (ie operators with a growth of more than 18% each year).

The Commission Decision 2009/339/EC on the inclusion of monitoring and reporting guidelines for emissions and tonne kilometres data from aviation activities :

This Decision was published on the 16th April, 2009 and it amends the Decision 2007/589/EC. It defines the 31st August, 2009 as the deadline to submit a tonne-kilometres (activity) monitoring plan which is the only way for aircraft operators to ask for free allowances in 2011 when submitting their 2010 tonnes-kilometres (activity) report.

It also precises that each aircraft operator has to submit an annual emissions monitoring plan covering the year 2010 of 2011 and then has to update it before each trading period (ie before 2012 and 2013).

After each monitoring year, the aircraft operators will have to submit an annual emissions report before the 31st March of the following year to the DGAC. This report must be verified by an independent verifier before submission.

The plans and reports must be submitted using standard forms which can be downloaded at the bottom of this page.

These monitoring plans have to be submitted to the following email address :

 

or, failing that, by postal mail to the following address :
 

DTA-SDD-ETS

50 rue Henry Farman
75720 PARIS CEDEX 15
FRANCE

You can consider that your monitoring plan or report has been submitted on time (before the deadline) only if you receive a message from the email address acknowledging receipt of your files and specifying the date of receipt. If no answer is given, it is your responsibility to ensure that we really received your message or, if it appears that we didn’t, to send it to us a second time (still before the deadline) ensuring, by the same procedure, that we received it.

For further questions do not hesitate to send an e-mail message to

Simplified methodology :

For small emitters (operators who emit less than 10 000 tonnes of CO2 per year or perform less than 243 flight during three consecutives four-month periods) without an Air Operator Certificate (AOC), there is a simplified method that can be used. This simplified method enables the operator to use a tool provided by Eurocontrol which estimates emissions using the flight distance and aircraft type, facilitating the monitoring process.

The Eurocontrol tool has received the European Commission’s approval and is available at the following address : www.eurocontrol.int/environment/public/standard_page/small_emitters.html.

Information on independent verifiers :

 At the end of the monitoring period, each aircraft operator has to submit to the DGAC (same electronic and postal addresses as above) an annual emissions report which has to be verified by an independent verifier. In order to obtain free allowances, an operator can also submit a tonnes-kilometres report for 2010 data, or for 2014 data if he is a new entrant. The templates which must be used for the reports, the “tonne kilometres report” and the “annual emissions report” are available at the bottom of this webpage.

• The accreditation process of verification bodies,
• What must be included in a verification mission,
• What must be included in the verification report.

• The ones which submitted a request for accreditation to an accreditation body, who are considered temporarily able to verify reports from the date of acceptance of this request. This temporary status ends at the time of accreditation and should occur in the next 18 months following the request.
• The ones who have been accredited, in accordance with the “Arrêté”  :
  • By the COFRAC without additional conditions,
  • By an accreditation body other than the COFRAC signatory of the multilateral accord in the frame of the European co-operation for Accreditation (EA) and which has sent to the DGAC all the required documents according to the "arrêté du 9 aout 2010".

 Templates of the monitoring plans and reports :

For annual emissions reporting :

1. Annual Emissions Monitoring Plan - (XLS - 278 Ko)

2. Annual Emissions Report (XLS - 184 Ko)

6. Exemplar of annual emissions data flow - (PDF - 50 Ko) 

For tonnes-kilometres reporting (completed for 2010 reports, but to be done in 2014 for new entrants) :

4. Tonnes-Kilometres (activity) Monitoring Plan - (XLS - 226 Ko)

5. Tonnes-Kilometres (activity) Report (XLS - 124 Ko)

3. Exemplar of Tonnes-Kilometres data flow - (PDF - 8 Ko)

Useful guidance validated by the Commission to understand and fill the template - (PDF - 687 Ko)