European airlines demand a radical re-think on emissions trading plan

CEOs from Europe’s leading airlines, meeting in Brussels for the Spring Assembly of the Association of European Airlines, May 2008, called upon EU decision-makers to reject
calls from the European Parliament’s Environment Committee for excessively punitive conditions to be attached to the proposal to include aviation in a European Emissions Trading Scheme.

• Primary Source

Ernst and Young (on behalf of numerous aviation interests): Analysis of the EC proposal to include aviation activities in the Emissions Trading Scheme, 2007 http://files.aea.be/downloads/impact_assessment.pdf

AEA: Position Paper: The inclusion of aviation in the EU ETS, March 2008 http://www.aea.be/assets/documents/positions/PP_ETS_17October07.pdf

European Commission: PreLex: COM(2006)818 http://ec.europa.eu/prelex/detail_dossier.cfm?CL=en&ReqId=0&DocType=COM&DocYear=2006&DocNum=0818

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