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Official Journal of the European Union
8.3.2011
COMMISSION DECISION
of 7 March 2011
on historical aviation emissions pursuant to Article 3c(4) of Directive 2003/87/EC of the European
Parliament and of the Council establishing a scheme for greenhouse gas emission allowance trading
within the Community
(notified under document C(2011) 1328)
(Text with EEA relevance)
(2011/149/EU)
THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION
aircraft operators which helped to improve the
accuracy of the modelling approach. Additional calcu
lations were carried out to account for fuel consumption
associated with the use of the auxiliary power units
Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European
(APUs). The approach taken was first to determine the
Union,
average APU fuel consumption for different aircraft types.
The individual emission factors of APU fuel consumption
were then extrapolated to calculate total APU emissions
applying a process which took into account the actual
Having regard to Directive 2003/87/EC of the European
share of fuel burn for the flights under the EU ETS of
Parliament and of the Council of 13 October 2003 establishing
each aircraft type and the use of ground power in
a scheme for greenhouse gas emission allowance trading within
airports. The emissions corresponding to the resulting
the Community and amending Council Directive 96/61/EC ( 1 ),
total APU fuel consumption were included in the
and in particular Article 3c(4) thereof,
historical aviation emissions for each of the years
2004, 2005 and 2006.
Whereas:
(3) The
annual
emissions
in
the
calendar
year
2004
from
aircraft performing an aviation activity listed in Annex I
(1) Article
3c
of
Directive
2003/87/EC
sets
the
total
quantity
to Directive 2003/87/EC have been considered to be
of allowances to be allocated to aircraft operators. This
209 123 585 tonnes of CO 2 . The annual emissions in
quantity is defined as a percentage of historical aviation
the calendar year 2005 from such aircraft have been
emissions. Point (s) of Article 3 of Directive 2003/87/EC
considered to be 220 703 342 tonnes of CO 2 , and the
defines historical aviation emissions as the mean average
annual emissions in the calendar year 2006 from such
of the annual emissions in the calendar years 2004,
aircraft have been considered to be 228 602 103 tonnes
2005 and 2006 from aircraft performing an aviation
of CO 2 . The historical aviation emissions being defined
activity listed in Annex I to Directive 2003/87/EC.
as the arithmetic mean average of those emissions
According to paragraphs 2 and 3 of Article 3c of that
amounts therefore to 219 476 343 tonnes of CO 2 .
Directive, the total quantity of allowances to be allocated
to aircraft operators should be calculated on the basis of
that historical average.
(4) The
Commission
consulted
the
Climate
Change
Committee established pursuant to Article 9 of
Decision No 280/2004/EC of the European Parliament
(2) The
Commission
has
been
assisted
by
Eurocontrol
as
and of the Council of 11 February 2004 concerning a
foreseen in Article 18b of Directive 2003/87/EC. The
mechanism for monitoring Community greenhouse gas
best available data for calculation of the historic
emissions and for implementing the Kyoto Protocol (
emissions was considered to be the comprehensive air

2 ),
traffic data contained in Eurocontrol’s databases from
the Central Route Charges Office (CRCO) and the
Central Flow Management Unit (CFMU). These provide
among other things a calculation of the actual route
HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:
length for each individual flight. Emissions were then
calculated on a flight-by-flight basis using the ANCAT
3 (Abatement of Nuisances Caused by Air Transport)
methodology and the CASE (Calculation of Emissions
Article 1
by Selective Equivalence) methodology. This approach
to calculating historic emissions was further enhanced
Historical aviation emissions for the purposes of paragraphs 1
through use of actual fuel consumption information
and 2 of Article 3c of Directive 2003/87/EC are set at
provided voluntarily by a representative number of
219 476 343 tonnes of CO 2 .
( 1 ) OJ L 275, 25.10.2003, p. 32.
( 2 ) OJ L 49, 19.2.2004, p. 1.

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8.3.2011 Official
Journal
of
the
European
Union L
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Article 2
This Decision is addressed to the Member States.
Done at Brussels, 7 March 2011.
For the Commission
Connie HEDEGAARD
Member of the Commission

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