Aviation ETS Verification Services

Objective:

“To ensure that emissions have been monitored in accordance with the guidelines and that correct emissions data will be reported pursuant to Article 14 (3) of Directive 2008/101/EC”

Output:

“Verifiers must state, with reasonable assurance, whether the data in the emissions report/tonne-kilometre report is free from material misstatements and whether there are no material non-conformities.”

Procedure:

“The verifier shall in particular ascertain the:

• completeness of reported flight and emissions data compared to air traffic data such as Eurocontrol,

• consistency between reported TK data and mass & balance documentation,

• consistency between reported fuel consumption data and data with fuel purchased or otherwise supplied”

By utilizing independant verifiers the local competent authorities (CA) no longer have to check each and every submitted report. This would hardly be possible since the AC operators reports are due end of March 2011 and there is just 1 month left (until end of April 2011) for the competent authorities before the emission certificates have to be surrendered. Nonetheless the CA will perfom random checks and reserves the right to question the AC operator on the reported numbers.