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Civil Aviation Act, 2009 (Act No. 13 of 2009)RegulationsCivil Aviation Regulations, 2011Part 91 : General Aviation and Operating Flight RulesSubpart 10 : CORSIA91.10.15 CO2 offsetting requirements |
| (1) | The offsetting requirements of CORSIA shall— |
| (a) | be applicable from 1 January 2021 to 31 December 2035, to an aeroplane operator referred to in regulation 91.10.1, whose international flights are between the Republic and States defined in Document SA-CATS 91. |
| (b) | not be applicable to a new entrant aeroplane operator— |
| (i) | for three years starting from the year when such operator meets the requirements of regulation 91.10.1; |
| (ii) | until the annual CO2 emissions exceed 0.1 percent of its total CO2 emissions from international flights in 2020, whichever occurs first; or |
| (iii) | the information on the total CO2 emissions in 2019 from the ICAO documents entitled “CORSIA 2020 Emissions’’ shall be used and produced in accordance with the timeline prescribed in Document SA-CATS 91. |
[Regulation 91.10.15(1) substituted by section 8(j) of the Thirty-Third Amendment of the Civil Aviation Regulations, 2026, Notice No. 7844, GG55226, dated 21 August 2026 and shall come into operation upon Publication in the Government Gazette, save for Part 92, which shall come into operation upon the Proclamation by the President of the Civil Aviation Amendment Act, 2021 (Act No. 22 of 2021]
| (2) | Methods of calculation of emissions for offsetting requirements shall be as prescribed in Document SA-CATS 91. |
| (3) | The Authority shall calculate an annual aeroplane operator’s final CO2 offsetting requirements, based on the data reported in accordance with Chapter 2 of the CORSIA Methodology for Calculating Actual Life Cycle Emissions Values and the applicability requirements as prescribed in Document SA-CATS 91. |
| (4) | When an aeroplane operator does not have CO2 emissions as applicable under regulation 91.10.1 and does not qualify as a new entrant, the Authority shall use a value of 10 000 tonnes of CO2 as an OEB, y. |
[Regulation 91.10.15(4) inserted by section 8(j) of the Thirty-Third Amendment of the Civil Aviation Regulations, 2026, Notice No. 7844, GG55226, dated 21 August 2026 and shall come into operation upon Publication in the Government Gazette, save for Part 92, which shall come into operation upon the Proclamation by the President of the Civil Aviation Amendment Act, 2021 (Act No. 22 of 2021]
| (5) | If the sum of an aeroplane operator’s offsetting requirements in the three years of a given compliance period (OR1, C + OR2, C + OR3, C) is less than 3 000 tonnes of CO2 then an aeroplane operator shall have no offsetting requirements for a compliance period. |
[Regulation 91.10.15(5) inserted by section 8(j) of the Thirty-Third Amendment of the Civil Aviation Regulations, 2026, Notice No. 7844, GG55226, dated 21 August 2026 and shall come into operation upon Publication in the Government Gazette, save for Part 92, which shall come into operation upon the Proclamation by the President of the Civil Aviation Amendment Act, 2021 (Act No. 22 of 2021]
[Regulation 91.10.15 inserted by regulation 11(x) of Notice No. R. 3170, GG48228, dated 17 March 2023 (Twenty-Sixth Amendment of the Civil Aviation Regulations, 2023)]
