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"We Swedish Conservatives would like aviation to be included in the European Emissions Trading Scheme. That would be an effective and fair way of internalising the environmental costs that aviation causes, in accordance with the ‘polluter pays’ principle.
We regret the fact that the Swedish Government has chosen to implement a special arrangement for flight taxes in Sweden. To do so distorts competition and weakens Sweden’s competitiveness whilst providing only small benefits to the environment, or none at all, in comparison with the introduction of emissions trading for aviation.
The fact that the report advocates the introduction of a separate emissions trading scheme means that we Swedish Conservatives are unable to support it. A separate system means that we risk achieving a lower total reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, and, what is more, at a significantly higher cost than is necessary. We Swedish Conservatives do believe that emissions trading should be introduced, but this must be done in the right way.
The dramatic reduction in the price of flying in Europe is a basically positive development that has brought prosperity, freedom of movement and interaction between people. We regret the fact that the rapporteur and the majority in this House seem to be of the opposite opinion, and we do not, therefore, back the calls in the report for further tax rises of various kinds on aviation."@en1
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