Dumping Fuel
I have a question about aircraft dumping fuel. When an aircraft (over UK for arguments sake) needs to dump fuel, what is the protocol after doing so. E.g. what are the mandatory reporting lines (environmental agencies), does it incur a financial penalty, is dumped fuel measured per aircraft or/and is it also measured as a collective figure against the airline calculating the amount of fuel dumps per annum against the entire fleet. Im not familiar with the discharging system and it may be that it atomises the fuel particles into insignificance, however I would have thought that atomized fuel would be more of a risk than a gain in certain conditions.
Probably asking a very simple question but just wondered.
Thanks