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Environmental Protection

Part of the mandate of EASA is to promote, in the field of civil aviation, a high and uniform level of environmental protection for European citizens. Environmental Protection is therefore an integral part of EASA's general structure of rules and regulations which aim to mitigate the negative impacts of the civil aviation industry.

In these EASA environment pages, you will find information about:

The Agency's activity in the area of Environmental Protection should be seen in the larger context of the European Commission Communication aimed at aviation sustainable development, which also involves other areas such as controlling environmental problems around airports and/or en route.

The two main environmental issues are aircraft noise and emissions.

  • 'Emissions' in this context refers to gaseous emission such as CO2 (carbon dioxide) and H20 (steam/water/ice) which are the primary products of combustion of fuel, and more specifically the undesired side products of combustion, i.e. NO and NO2 (nitrous oxides, commonly referred to as NOX), CO (carbon monoxide), smoke (pure Carbon, soot) and unburned hydrocarbons (unburned fuel).

Through Article 6 of its basic regulation ( Regulation (EC) No 216/2008), EASA has adopted the standards of the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) which are contained in Annex 16 of the Chicago Convention.

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