administering Member State — the Member State responsible for administering the Community scheme in respect of an aircraft operator in accordance with Article 18a (q)

aircraft operator — the person who operates an aircraft at the time it performs an aviation activity listed in Annex I or, where that person is not known or is not identified by the owner of the aircraft, the owner of the aircraft ‘(o)

attributed aviation emissions — emissions from all flights falling within the aviation activities listed in Annex I which depart from an aerodrome situated in the territory of a Member State and those which arrive in such an aerodrome from a third country (r)

base year — in relation to an aircraft operator which started operating in the Community after 1 January 2006, the first calendar year of operation, and in all other cases, the calendar year starting on 1 January 2006. Article 18b Assistance from Eurocontrol For the purposes of carrying out its obligations under Articles 3c(4) and 18a, the Commission may request the assistance of Eurocontrol or another relevant organisation and may conclude to that effect any appropriate agreements with those organisations. (*1) OJ L 240, 24.8.1992, p. 1 15.

commercial air transport operator — an operator that, for remuneration, provides scheduled or non-scheduled air transport services to the public for the carriage of passengers, freight or mail (p)

distance — the great circle distance between the aerodrome of departure and the aerodrome of arrival plus an additional fixed factor of 95 km (b)

emissions — the release of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere from sources in an installation or the release from an aircraft performing an aviation activity listed in Annex I of the gases specified in respect of that activity;’ ‘(b)

historical aviation emissions — the mean average of the annual emissions in the calendar years 2004, 2005 and 2006 from aircraft performing an aviation activity listed in Annex I (s)

payload — the total mass of freight, mail and passengers carried. For the purposes of calculating the payload: Reporting of tonne-kilometre data for the purpose of Articles 3e and 3f Each aircraft operator shall include the following information in its application under Article 3e(1) or Article 3f(2): Data identifying the aircraft operator, including: name of the aircraft operator, its administering Member State, its address, including postcode and country and, where different, its contact address in the administering Member State, the aircraft registration numbers and types of aircraft used in the period covered by the report to perform the aviation activities listed in Annex I for which it is the aircraft operator, the number and issuing authority of the air operator certificate and operating licence under which the aviation activities listed in Annex I for which it is the aircraft operator were performed, address, telephone, fax and e-mail details for a contact person, and name of the aircraft owner. For each type of fuel for which emissions are calculated: fuel consumption, emission factor, total aggregated emissions from all flights performed during the period covered by the report… (b)