the Parliament EU has voted in favor of the inclusion of shipping in the system of exchange of emissions ETS beginning from 2023



Today the European Parliament, with 379 ballots to favor, 263 contrarys and 57 abstentions, has approved of the legislative proposal that previews the reduction of the quotas gas emission greenhouse available on the market of carbon of EU (EU ETS - Emission Trading System), so as to realign climatic politics of the European Union with the objectives of the agreement of Paris. The eurodeputati ones have supported the proposal of the EU commission to reduce every year of 2.2% the number of "carbon credits" (emission quotas) to put up for auction and have voted in favor of the doubling of the ability to stabilizzatrice reserve of the market for 2019 to absorb the excess of quotas on the market.

If for the aerial transport the approved of legislative text previews that the section must receive 10% of credits in less regarding the average of 2014-2016 in order aligning the objectives of reduction to those of the other fields, with the revenues of the auctions of the quotas the field of the aerial transport that would be used for actions in favor of the climate in the EU and the Third-country, for the marine transport the approved of text beginning from previews its inclusion in the system of exchange of emissions EU ETS 2023 if it is not introduced within the end of a 2021 analogous system within the International Maritime Organization (IMO). Moreover the europarlamento has proposed the creation of a "bottom for the climate of the marine field" 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 emissions of co2.

Commenting the outcome of the ballot of the European Parliament, the European Sea Ports Organisation (ESPO) has evidenced that, "being the climatic change a total challenge and being the marine transport a total industry", "the IMO is by far the just within in order to introduce a objective for the co2 and measures in order to reduce the emissions of the ships online with the agreement of Paris". To such purpose, the association of the European ports considers that a period six-year-old, until when the measures of the EU for the field of the shipping they take effect, is a sufficient time so that the IMO discusses and agrees measures and terms for the reduction of the emissions of co2 by the marine transport.

ESPO has specified that, if within the 2023 IMO did not have to succeed to define and to introduce a system in order to reduce the emissions of the shipping, then the communitarian measures will have to be introduced, but - it has evidenced the association - "would have to be clear however that, in case of an international agreement within 2023, the communitarian measures must be repealed".

Finding that an agreement to international level is certainly preferable to a regional approach, Isabelle Ryckbost, general secretary of the ESPO, it has observed that "the ballot today in Parliament would have to be seen as an encouragement towards a total solution, since the previewed term of 2023 must be respected. If, instead, the IMO will not be able to define a objective of reduction of the emissions and the relative measures of performance within a 2023 - it has added Ryckbost - approach of the EU seems unavoidable. We hope therefore that the IMO accelerates the process and demonstrates to the same level of ambition in facing the climatic change as has been about to the limitation to the agreed total atmospheric pollution last October".

If for Ryckbost the ballot of the europarlamento would have to be intended as a dew claw for velocizzare the Maritime work of the International Organization on the reduction of the emissions of the shipping, for the general secretary of the European Community Shipowners' Associations (ECSA) the today's voting to Strasbourg has anything but meant: "to place a not realistic pressure on the IMO with regional measures that will very little have a serious impact on a total field making for the climate - Patrick Verhoeven has denounced - it is not the way to proceed. This - it has accused the representative of the association of the European shipowners - will inopportunely complicate the possibility to reach an effective and prompt total agreement near the IMO, that he is that all at the end want. We - he has added the general secretary of the ECSA - thank those deputies who have voted against the inclusion of the shipping and hope that this spirit will prevail in the next ones negotiates of the trilogo". Now, in fact, the eurodeputati ones will start negotiate with the Maltese presidency of the Council of the European Union to the aim to reach an agreement on the bill, that it will return then to the Parliament for its final approval.

Still more sand bank the critic of the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS), that it has exhorted the Member States of the EU "to reject to the proposal European Parliament". It is "of disappointment, but not by surprise" the reaction to the today's ballot to Strasbourg of international the shipowning association: "this ballot in favor of an unilateral regional measure - it has found in charge of Relazioni external of the ICS, Simon Bennett - simply risks to polarize the debate between Member States of the IMO that have already agreed to develop a strategy in order to reduce the emissions of co2 of the marine transport online with the objectives of the agreement of Paris on the climatic changes. The ballot - it has emphasized - completely ignores the concrete progress that already is completed by the IMO that, according to the protocol of Kyoto of which the Member States of the EU they are signers, has a mandate in order to reduce the emissions of co2 of international the marine transport".

"The Member States of the EU, that they are also members of the IMO - has asserted Bennett - now have the duty to reject these unproductive proposals which got ahead as part of the total attempt to reform the communitarian system of exchange of emissions. To try to include thousands of small companies of navigation, between which thousands of society that does not have center in the EU, in a system planned for important companies of the EU that they produce energy, concrete and iron worker - he has accused the representative of the ICS - has the single effect to complicate this reform".

"As we have seen when the EU has tried without success to impose the ETS to international the aerial transport - it has concluded Bennett - the European governments are not taking with favor feeling itself to say that the ships clappers their flag, climbing ports of the European Union, could have to pour money in a system of the EU planned in order to help to subsidize the closing of the European coalmines".