S.I. No. 740/2024 - European Communities (Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading) (Aviation)(Amendment) Regulations 2024


Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in

“Iris Oifigiúil” of 3rd January, 2025.

I, EAMON RYAN, Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by section 3 of the European Communities Act 1972 (No. 27 of 1972) for the purpose of: giving further effect to Directive 2003/87/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 October 20031 , as amended by Directive 2004/101/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 October 20042 , Directive 2008/101/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 19 November 20083 , Regulation (EC) No 219/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 March 20094 , Directive 2009/29/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 April 20095 , Decision No 1359/2013/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 December 20136 , Regulation (EU) No 421/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 April 20147 , Decision (EU) 2015/1814 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 6 October 20158 , Regulation (EU) 2017/2392 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 December 20179 , Directive (EU) 2018/410 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 March 201810 , Commission delegated decision (EU) 2020/1071 of 18 May 202011 , Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2021/1416 of 17 June 202112 , Decision (EU) 2023/136 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 January 202313 , Regulation (EU) 2023/435 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 February 202314 , Directive (EU) 2023/958 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 10 May 202315 , and Directive (EU) 2023/959 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 10 May 202316 .

Citation

1. These Regulations may be cited as the European Communities (Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading) (Aviation)(Amendment) Regulations 2024.

Interpretation

2. In these Regulations, the “Principal Regulations” means the European Communities (Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading) (Aviation) Regulations 2024 ( S.I. No. 471 of 2024 ).

Amendment of Regulation 9 of the Principal Regulations

3. Regulation 9 of the Principal Regulations is amended by the insertion of the following paragraph after paragraph (5):

“(6) In specific circumstances where an aircraft operator operates on a very limited number of aerodrome pairs or on a very limited number of State pairs that are subject to offsetting requirements or on a very limited number of State pairs that are not subject to offsetting requirements, that aircraft operator may request the Agency not to publish such data at the aircraft operator level, explaining why disclosure would be considered to harm its commercial interests. Based on that request, the Agency may request the Commission to publish those data at a higher level of aggregation in accordance with Article 14(6) of the Directive.”.

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GIVEN under my Official Seal,

19 December, 2024.

EAMON RYAN,

Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications.

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