Examples of EU ETS Directive in a sentence
Directive 2003/87/EC as amended by Directive 2009/29/EC (hereinafter "the (revised) EU ETS Directive") requires operators of installations which are included in the European Greenhouse Gas Emission Trading Scheme (the EU ETS) to hold a valid GHG emission permit issued by the relevant Competent Authority and to monitor and report their emissions and have the reports verified by an independent and accredited verifier.
Excluded Activities Certain activities that result in greenhouse gas emissions may be excluded under the EU ETS Directive for example truly mobile sources such as vehicle emissions.
Lastly, it does not report many environmental instruments, with the exception of the EU ETS (“European Trading Scheme”) sectors which fall under the EU ETS Directive, and the relatively high level of environmental taxes we outlined before.When assessing the role of the policy framework in the Italian context on emission performance, a further confirmation of the weakness of the Italian regulation has emerged in the literature.
In 2006, the Impact Assessment for the EU ETS Directive analysed the possibility of also regulating NOx, and this was subsequently followed up in 2008 by a DG MOVE study ‘Lower NOx at Higher Altitudes: Policies to Reduce the Climate Impact of Aviation NOx Emission’.
Note that the general legal framework of the EU ETS is the same in all Member States, based on the EU ETS Directive.