Universal Weather and Aviation has announced a partnership with CICS, a leading Greenhouse Gas verifier, to offer European Union emissions trading system (EU-ETS) compliance, verification and reporting service in time for operators to comply with the March 31, 2011, deadline.
Randy Stephens, Universal's divisional vice president for product management and specialty services says the service is intended "to help make compliance with EU-ETS as painless and cost-efficient as possible for our clients." He adds: "Since the EU-ETS directive was first announced, we've received many requests from clients to develop a reporting service so they can concentrate on flying the aircraft and leave the reporting to us. We are pleased to be able to meet that demand and have the reports verified through the one of the industry's leading verifiers in CICS."
Stephens says that Universal will streamline the reporting process by using existing historical flight planning data it already has from its clients' trips into, out of, and between EU member states. He adds: "We are currently developing a unique portal our clients will be able to log into that will house that data. Clients will also have the ability to upload any additional data from flights not coordinated through Universal."
Source: Flight Daily News
