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"Mr President, thank you, Mrs Lucas, for a constructive and clear report. Action in terms of quotas is preferable to free and complicated allocation. It is important for us to make a clear decision about separate trading systems for aviation. That is only logical because the climate change impact of aviation is two to four times greater than the impact of carbon dioxide alone. Aviation would therefore be placed at an undue advantage if it were to form part of the general system, and the fight against climate change would become less cost-effective.
Aviation is expanding rapidly. It is a kind of tax haven of the skies, with exemption from VAT and fuel tax being the most serious aspect of this. All this is of most benefit to the richest people in society, who are the most frequent fliers. Paradoxically enough, it would, then, be those on low incomes who would benefit most from increased emissions charges, for these would reduce the amount of state income needed from other areas, such as rail travel, in which those on low incomes account for a larger share of the market. I am very pleased about the support for separate systems shown by the Group of the European People’s Party (Christian Democrats) and European Democrats, and I expect the Socialist Group in the European Parliament also to stand up for the less well off."@en1
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