(1)

Article 28c of Directive 2003/87/EC empowers the Commission to adopt provisions for the appropriate monitoring, reporting and verification of emissions for the purpose of implementing the International Civil Aviation Organisation's (‘ICAO’) global market-based measure on all routes covered by that measure. For reasons of legal certainty and clarity, it is necessary to specify the flights subject to those provisions by reference to the relevant routes and aircraft operators.

(2)

Arrangements for the monitoring and reporting of emissions as well as the verification of emission reports apply, for the purposes of the EU Emission Trading System, in accordance with Commission Regulation (EU) No 601/2012 (2) and Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/2067 (3). Those arrangements have been updated and further developed, as regards the monitoring and reporting of emissions, by Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/2066 (4), which will apply from 1 January 2021. Implementing Regulations (EU) 2018/2066 and (EU) 2018/2067 take account of the first edition of the international standards and recommended practices adopted by the ICAO on 27 June 2018. For reasons of administrative efficiency and to minimise compliance costs for operators, it is appropriate to align the provisions for the implementation of the ICAO's global market based measure and the provisions laid down in Regulation (EU) No 601/2012 and in those Implementing Regulations.

(3)

Under Commission Regulation (EU) No 601/2012, Member States can prescribe the use of electronic templates and specific file formats for the purposes of reporting emissions from aviation activities under Directive 2003/87/EC. To ensure that aircraft operators can comply with such requirements also when reporting emissions for the purposes of the ICAO's global market-based measure, the Commission should publish a specific electronic data exchange format.

(4)

The application of monitoring, reporting and verification requirements for certain flights only in respect of aircraft operators based in the EEA is not considered to cause any distortion of competition. Therefore, such requirements can be adopted on the basis of Article 28c of Directive 2003/87/EC.

(5)

On the basis of a cooperation agreement between the two, the Commission is entitled to request the assistance of Eurocontrol to ensure quality of emissions data. In the interests of ensuring the completeness and accuracy of emissions data to be transmitted by Member States in the format expected by ICAO, Member States should be able to request the Commission to seek this assistance from Eurocontrol.

(6)

Member States should transmit relevant verified emissions data to the ICAO Secretariat, and ensure complete and timely reporting of emissions data concerning all relevant flights.

(7)

In accordance with Article 28b(2) of Directive 2003/87/EC, the report referred to in that article should consider whether this regulation should be revised,