ECSA rejects the relation of the Ambient Commission of the European Parliament on the emissions of the shipping



Today the Commission Ambient, public health and alimentary safety (ENVI) of the European Parliament have adopted own relation on the review of the system of exchange of emissions European (EU ETS), that it previews a reduction of 2.4% per year of the carbon credits to put up for auction (against 2.2% beginning from 2021 proposed from the EU commission on July 15, 2015) and the doubling of the ability to stabilizzatrice reserve of market (MSR) in order to absorb the excess of quotas on the market. The next February the Parliament EU will vote the relation and successively it will begin the procedure of it negotiate interistituzionali of the trilogo in order to find an agreement between Parliament, Council and Commission of the European Union.

Relatively to the marine transport, the approved of relation today finds that, in absence of a governed analogous system from the International Maritime Organization, the shipping it must be enclosed in European system EU ETS beginning from 2023. The relation previews therefore that the produced emissions of co2 in the communitarian ports and while browsing from and for the European harbour ports of call must be accounted for. The eurodeputati ones have proposed also the creation of a bottom in order to compensate the emissions of the marine transport, to improve energy efficiency, to facilitate the investments in innovative technologies and to reduce the produced emissions of co2 from the field of the shipping.

About the aerial transport, the relation previews that the revenues generated from the auction of the quotas in the field of the aerial transport would have to be used in order to finance initiatives for the climate in the EU and the third-country.

The proposal of the European Parliamentary commission for the emissions of the marine transport has not turned out at all appreciate from shipowning association European ECSA: "the relationship - it has observed the general secretary of the ECSA, Patrick Verhoeven - ignores and places to risk the schedule that is agreed in center IMO in the end of October" ( on 28 October 2016). "We find this - it has emphasized Verhoeven - very daunting, but this does not change our determination in doing so as that the schedule of the IMO has happened".

"We - he has continued Verhoeven - agree that the field of the shipping must anyway reduce ulteriorly the emissions of co2 with an analogous level of ambition to that of the world-wide economy to fine the debit the just fair one and prorated contribution to satisfy the objective on the climate of Paris. But this can be realized in effective way only in a total context. The threat of regional measures with not realistic expirations - it has denounced - represents a counter-productive movement much".

Remembering that the relation will have to be object of the plenary ballot from the European Parliament at the beginning of the next year and that then they will begin it negotiate of the trilogo, Verhoeven it has manifested the hope "that in this procedure the producing position of Commission ENVI cannot be overturned". "The European Union - it has concluded - would have to be engaged in the total dialogue, not to weaken it".