Subject: FW: Notification of 2024 offsetting requirements to aircarft operators - SGF recalculation!
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Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2025 10:16:28 +0200

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Subject: RE: Notification of 2024 offsetting requirements to aircarft
operators - SGF recalculation!

Dear colleagues,

With big thanks to Raul and Laure for notifying us of this, please, note
that ICAO is recalculating the 2024 SGF. Please, see the notification here
<https://www.icao.int/CORSIA/CCR>  and bellow. 

Please, take this into account when notifying your aircraft operators of
their offsetting requirements. We will update you when the new SGF is
published or if we have more information.

 

Thank you 

Best regards,

Beata for DG CLIMA Aviation Team

European Commission
Directorate-General for Climate Action

Unit B.4 – Air, Rail, Water and Intermodal Policy

[email-masked] <mailto:[email-masked]> 

DISCLAIMER: The views expressed are purely those of the writer and may
not in any circumstances be regarded as stating an official position of
the European Commission.

 

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Subject: Notification of 2024 offsetting requirements to aircarft
operators

Dear colleagues,

According to the Article 3(5) of Commission Implementing Regulation
2024/1879 <https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/2024/1879/oj> , by 30
November 2025 Member States should inform their EEA aircraft operators of
their offsetting requirements for the year 2024. We are sending you this
communication in a way of reminder of this obligation as well as an
assistance with the calculation of the offsetting requirement in this
first year, when the requirement is higher than 0. 

Article 3(3) defines the calculation as follows:

ORy = OEy * SGFy

where:

ORy

=

aircraft operator’s offsetting requirements in the given year y;

OEy

=

aircraft operator’s CO2 emissions from international flights covered in
the given year y;

SGFy

=

Sector’s Growth Factor.

For the year 2024, the values used are the following:

*         OE – emissions reported by the aircraft operator in their ETS
annual emissions report (AER), section 12 (specifically, the value is in
section 12 (a), 2nd row).

o   Those are emissions from flights between a Member State and States
that are listed in Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/2850 as
well as flights between these States, and flights between Switzerland or
the United Kingdom and these States. Flights between EU Overseas Countries
and Territories and EEA States may be included at the discretion of each
EEA State according to transposition of the EU ETS Directive into national
legislation.

o   This value is subject to the transparency requirements under Article
14(6) of the ETS Directive (Point (b), (i)). Therefore, it is included in
the Eurocontrol EVA tool for each aircarft operator which may facilitate
the identification of the correct value by Member States. 

o   Please, note that the 2024 CO2 emissions defined as ‘Total subject to
offsetting requirements’ in the ICAO document ‘CORSIA Central Registry,
PART III: Total Annual CO2 Emissions and Information for Aeroplane
Operators, Reporting year: 2024
<https://www.icao.int/sites/default/files/environmental-protection/CORSIA/
Documents/CORSIA%20Central%20Registry/CCR-Info-Data-Transparency_PartIII_4
ed-2025-web.pdf> ”, is NOT the correct value to be used in this
calculation. As per the agreement with ICAO secretariat (see exchange of
letters circulated last year), this document shows the emissions subject
to offsetting requirements according to the CORSIA SARPs, while the legal
obligation under EU law must only consider the flights subject to CORSIA
offsetting requirement under the ETS Directive. 

*         SGF – this is the Sector’s Growth Factor as recently published
by the ICAO Secretariat. 

o   The ICAO document “CORSIA Annual Sector’s Growth Factor (SGF), Year:
2024
<https://www.icao.int/sites/default/files/environmental-protection/CORSIA/
Documents/CORSIA%20Central%20Registry/CORSIA-Annual-SGF-4ed-2025-web.pdf>
” has been published on 31 October 2025 and the value is 0.15948315. 

There is no prescribed template for the notification from Member States
to aircarft operators of their offsetting requirement. Accordingly, you
may inform the aircraft operators administered by you in a way you deem
the most appropriate, ensuring the offsetting requirement is clear and all
elements required for the calculation (OE, SGF) are included.

We hope that this email provides for sufficient clarity in this first
year of calculation. Should you have any questions, please, don’t hesitate
to contact us. 

 

Best regards,

Beata for DG CLIMA Aviation Team

European Commission
Directorate-General for Climate Action

Unit B.4 – Air, Rail, Water and Intermodal Policy

[email-masked] <mailto:[email-masked]> 

DISCLAIMER: The views expressed are purely those of the writer and may
not in any circumstances be regarded as stating an official position of
the European Commission.