EU lawmakers July 8 approved draft legislation imposing a cap on greenhouse gas emissions from airlines landing in or departing from the European Union and requiring the carriers to trade emission permits, starting in 2012. In adopting the plans by an overwhelming majority of 640-30, with 20 abstentions, lawmakers in the Parliament endorsed a compromise agreement with EU member states, negotiated in recent days by Peter liese, a German center-right lawmaker appointed by the Parliament to oversee the proposals. Because EU countries already have agreed to the proposals, finalization in the EU Council will now be a formality. Once the legislation is published in the Official Journal of the European Union, member states will have 12 months to transpose it into their national codes of law.
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