Travel Health Watch.Dec 4, 2006 Assn. of European Airlines reiterated its opposition to the European Commission's plan to include airlines in its existing emissions trading scheme, calling it "distortive dis·tor·tive adj. Serving to distort: harsh and distortive peaks in the recorded music; a robust fortissimo without distortive vibration. " and "damag[ing to] the competitiveness of European airlines" following Monday's biannual AEA AEA Atomic Energy Authority AEA n abbr (BRIT) (= Atomic Energy Authority) → consejo de energía nuclear; (BRIT) (SCOL) (= Advanced Extension Award) → Assembly in Berlin. "As it stands, this proposal discriminates against aviation vis-a-vis other sectors already included in the EU ETS ETS Educational Testing Service (nonprofit private educational testing and measurement organization) ETS Emergency Telecommunications Service ETS Electronic Trading System ETS Engineering (&) Technical Services ," Secretary General Ulrich Schulte-Strathaus said. "We also feel that the possible repercussions repercussions npl → répercussions fpl repercussions npl → Auswirkungen pl of such a proposal on international relations have not been thought through. This text is unbalanced. It should be changed now or withdrawn and changed in consultation with the industry." AEA said it is willing to address environmental issues and participate in an ETS but that such participation "should be seen in the context of a bundle of measures" such as technological development and implementation of the Single European Sky The Single European Sky is a European Commission initiative that is intended to change the future structure of air traffic control across Europe. The aim is to use more efficient air traffic management that is more closely based on actual flight patterns, rather than using the , which it said would cut emissions by 12%. Nov 29, 2006 Z Editor: Aram Gesar, eMail: edit@AirGuideOnline.com For more global news, reviews, features and analysis, please go to: http://www.airguideonline.com/onlinenews.htm To Subscribe to our Newsletters: http://www.airguideonline.com/order_formsubs.htm#news To Advertise: advert@AirGuideOnline.com Nov 13, 2006 |
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