Not exact matches
The European Union should exert its right to impose carbon charges
on aviation within its own airspace, the European
Commission said
on Wednesday, a step likely to rile emerging powers China and India and revive trade tensions.
According to a spokesman for the UK Department for Transport, body - scanner approvals will be
on the agenda at a meeting of the European
Commission's
aviation security committee
on 7 January, at which responses to the failed attack will be considered.
Today, the EU Member States together with the European
Commission and the European Parliament reached a provisional deal
on aviation's role in the EU carbon market.
The European
Commission has proposed to continue to exempt all flights to and from Europe from paying for their pollution under the EU's carbon market rules, following an international agreement
on aviation emissions.
Instead of getting tough
on aviation, MEPs have only voted for modest improvements to
Commission plans to make
aviation part of the ETS.
Although the EU Parliament voted to strengthen European
Commission plans to bring air travel into the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS)[2], they failed to back tougher amendments that could have led to the scheme having a significant impact
on aviation's rising emissions.
His letter to Jose Manuel Barroso, the European
Commission President, undermined the EU's claims to be united in its drive to impose ecological virtue
on the
aviation industry.
The
Commission, through the SESAR Joint Undertaking, will finance a range of drone projects, focusing
on the integration of drones into the
aviation system.