US National Business Aviation Association president Ed Bolen has presented a powerful case to a Senate committee that Europe's unilaterally adopted emissions trading scheme (EU-ETS) particularly discriminates against business aviation. Meanwhile, the European Business Aviation Association's May figures for business aviation activity in the EU show it to be 6.3% down on the same month last year, and the association blames part of that slump on the aggressive European attitude to aviation taxes. Bolen told the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation that the EU-ETS "singles out a great American industry for discriminatory treatment". He said: "As badly as commercial airlines are treated, non-commercial aviation is treated even worse." Meanwhile, EBAA president Brian Humphries points out that airlines are allocated a 10,000-tonne carbon dioxide emission threshold before they are liable for any EU-ETS payment, but non-commercial aviation has no threshold at all even though its aircraft are smaller and emit less.
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