Dassault Aviation, the French maker of Falcon business jets, has won a legal claim that private planes should be able to qualify as environmentally sustainable under EU rules after they were initially excluded.
The European Court of Justice on Wednesday sided with Dassault, ruling that the exclusion from the EU’s new green rules could penalise the company by hampering its access to funding, and that some of the criteria the EU had relied on to leave out private jets were unsatisfactory.
“The Commission failed to take into account certain relevant factors, in particular the ability of these aircraft to operate on sustainable aviation fuels,” the court argued in its ruling.