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Article 12 is amended as follows: paragraph 6 is replaced by the following: ‘6. In accordance with the methodology set out in the implementing act referred to in paragraph 8 of this Article, Member States shall calculate the offsetting requirements each year for the preceding calendar year in respect of flights to, from and between States that are listed in the implementing act adopted pursuant to Article 25a(3), and in respect of flights between Switzerland or the United Kingdom and States that are listed in the implementing act adopted pursuant to Article 25a(3), and by 30 November each year inform the aircraft operators. In accordance with the methodology set out in the implementing act referred to in paragraph 8 of this Article, Member States shall also calculate the total final offsetting requirements for a given CORSIA compliance period and, by 30 November of the year following the last year of the relevant CORSIA compliance period, inform aircraft operators that fulfil the conditions set out in the third subparagraph of this paragraph of those requirements. Member States shall inform aircraft operators that fulfil all of the following conditions of the level of offsetting: For the purposes of the first subparagraph, point (b), CO2 emissions from the following types of flights shall not be taken into account: ; the aircraft operators hold an air operator certificate issued by a Member State or are registered in a Member State, including in the outermost regions, dependencies and territories of that Member State; and they produce annual CO2 emissions greater than 10 000 tonnes from the use of aeroplanes with a maximum certified take-off mass greater than 5 700 kg conducting flights covered by Annex I, other than those departing and arriving in the same Member State, including outermost regions of the same Member State, from 1 January 2021. State flights; humanitarian flights; medical flights; military flights; firefighting flights; flights preceding or following a humanitarian, medical or firefighting flight provided that such flights were conducted with the same aircraft and were required to accomplish the related humanitarian, medical or firefighting activities or to reposition the aircraft after those activities for its next activity.’ the following paragraphs are added: ‘8. The calculation of offsetting requirements referred to in paragraph 6 of this Article for the purposes of CORSIA shall be made in accordance with a methodology to be specified by the Commission in respect of flights to, from and between States that are listed in the implementing act adopted pursuant to Article 25a(3), and of flights between Switzerland or the United Kingdom and States that are listed in the implementing act adopted pursuant to Article 25a(3). The Commission shall adopt implementing acts specifying the methodology for the calculation of offsetting requirements for aircraft operators referred to in the first subparagraph of this paragraph. Those implementing acts shall in particular detail further the application of the requirements following from the relevant provisions of this Directive, in particular Articles 3c, 11a, 12 and 25a, and, to the extent possible in light of the relevant provisions of this Directive, from the International Standards and Recommended Practices on Environmental Protection for CORSIA (CORSIA SARPs). Those implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 22a(2). The first such implementing act shall be adopted by 30 June 2024. 9. Aircraft operators that hold an air operator certificate issued by a Member State or are registered in a Member State, including in the outermost regions, dependencies and territories of that Member State, shall cancel units referred to in Article 11a only in respect of the quantity notified by that Member State, in accordance with paragraph 6, in respect of the relevant CORSIA compliance period. The cancellation shall take place by 31 January 2025 for emissions in the period 2021 to 2023 and by 31 January 2028 for emissions in the period 2024 to 2026.’ ;

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-10-13 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.