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dossier	COM(2021)552 - Amendment of Directive 2003/87/EC as regards aviation's contribution to the Union’s economy-wide emission reduction target ...
document	COM(2021)552
date	May 10, 2023

ANNEX

(1)

In the column ‘Activities’ in the table in Annex I to Directive 2003/87/EC, the entry ‘Aviation’ is amended as follows:

(a)

the following paragraph is inserted after the first paragraph:

‘Flights between aerodromes that are located in two different States that are listed in the implementing act adopted pursuant to Article 25a(3) and flights between Switzerland or the United Kingdom and States that are listed in the implementing act adopted pursuant to Article 25a(3) and, for the purposes of Article 12(6) and (8) and Article 28c, any other flight between aerodromes that are located in two different third countries by aircraft operators that fulfil all of the following conditions:

(a)	the aircraft operators hold an air operator certificate issued by a Member State or are registered in a Member State, including in the outermost regions, dependencies and territories of that Member State; and

(b)

they produce annual CO2 emissions greater than 10 000 tonnes from the use of aeroplanes with a maximum certified take-off mass greater than 5 700 kg conducting flights covered by this Annex, other than those departing and arriving in the same Member State, including outermost regions of the same Member State, from 1 January 2021; for the purposes of this point, emissions from the following types of flights shall not be taken into account:

(i)	State flights;

(ii)	humanitarian flights;

(iii)

medical flights;

(iv)	military flights;

(v)	firefighting flights;

(vi)

flights preceding or following a humanitarian, medical or firefighting flight provided that such flights were conducted with the same aircraft and were required to accomplish the related humanitarian, medical or firefighting activities or to reposition the aircraft after those activities for its next activity.’;

(b)	in point (i), the number ‘30 000’ is replaced by the number ‘50 000’.

(2)

In Part B of Annex IV to Directive 2003/87/EC, the section ‘Monitoring of carbon dioxide emissions’ is amended as follows:

(a)	the following sentence is added at the end of the fourth paragraph: ‘The emission factor for jet kerosene (Jet A1 or Jet A) shall be 3,16 (t CO2/t fuel).’;

(b)

the following paragraph is inserted after the fourth paragraph:

‘Emissions from renewable fuels of non-biological origin using hydrogen from renewable sources compliant with Article 25 of Directive (EU) 2018/2001 shall be rated with zero emissions for the aircraft operators using them until the implementing act referred to in Article 14(1) of this Directive is adopted.’.