New Delhi: The Indian government Friday said that a working paper presented by it to the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) against aviation emission norms proposed by the European Union (EU) has been passed as a resolution.
'After a long debate in the council of ICAO, the working paper presented by India and supported by 25 other states was fully adopted,' the civil aviation ministry said in a statement here.
According to the statement, the working paper was adopted by the ICAO in a meeting on Nov 2, in Montreal (Canada). The paper urges the EU not to include non-EU airlines in the its emissions trading system.
The EU had unilaterally passed a regulation to include aviation in the European Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS), whereby all airlines - regardless of nationality - would be taxed if they overshoot their emission limits while operating over Europe.
The ETS is scheduled to come into force from January 2012.
11/11/11 IANS/msn.com
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