Flight emissions website
Article 8
1. The Agency shall create and maintain a flight emissions website (the ‘website’) consisting of a public part with online access for the general public and a compliance part only to be accessed by aircraft operators. The compliance part of the website shall be linked to the digital reporting tool set up by the Agency. 2. The public part of the website shall meet the following minimum requirements: (a) be open to access in a machine-readable format by any online services and without the customer having to register. It shall be accessible both from the point of sale where the labels are displayed and also through all search engines; (b) provide detailed information on how flight emissions of each flight or set of flights of aircraft operators have been estimated, informing the customer of the method of calculation including all the assumptions in a clear, understandable and concise way, providing explanations of key terms and variables, including examples and illustrations and any background information to facilitate the understanding of the steps taken by the Agency to calculate flight emissions, the data used for such calculation and estimations, and also default values used for the estimation of flight emissions; (c) provide information about each estimation of flight emissions and on the issuance and attribution of labels to flights placed in the market; (d) provide information about the reduction of aviation fuels lifecycle emissions resulting from the purchase by aircraft operators of aviation fuels with lower aviation fuel life cycle emissions at a given departure airport; (e) contain a search function allowing customers to search for labels. The search criteria shall be, at least, the departure and arrival airport and, optionally, the aircraft operator; (f) provide a comparison of the labels on the same route against a benchmark to be developed by the Agency based on observed typical performance on the route or comparable routes. Particularly for cases where no aircraft operator was selected in the search function mentioned in point (e), including: (i) a relative comparison of the flight emissions, expressed in percentage; (ii) a relative comparison of the aviation fuel lifecycle emissions reduction, expressed in percentage; (g) present the comparison referred to in letter (f) as a list of aircraft operators in ascending order, placing first the aircraft operator with the lowest flight emissions or the aircraft operator using the aviation fuels with the lowest average aviation fuels life cycle emissions; (h) show the following information based on the route searched for: (i) the route, measured in kilometres, defined by a departure and arrival airport, and using the full names of both airports, as well as their respective ICAO and IATA codes; (ii) the aircraft operators operating that route; (iii) the average cabin emissions per passenger by each aircraft operator operating that route; (iv) an indication of the aircraft type or types most frequently operated by each aircraft operator operating that route; (v) information to customers on whether a route introduced in the search tool falls outside of the scope of this Regulation and for which no information is available. In such cases, the Agency shall provide a concise explanation of the criteria that need to be fulfilled in order for the route to be listed in the search tool. 3. The compliance part of the website shall comply with the following technical specifications: (a) access by each aircraft operator shall be restricted via unique login credentials. It shall be secure, and aircraft operators shall be able to view and manage their compliance data, including reporting requirements and label generation and distribution and their respective status per route; (b) aircraft operators shall only be able to view their own compliance information. Aircraft operators shall only be able to access the public information regarding the labels of other aircraft operators.