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The Renewable Transport Fuel Obligations (Amendment) Order 2021

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13.—(1) The Schedule is amended as follows.

(2) Renumber the Schedule as Schedule 1.

(3) In paragraph 1—

(a)omit the definition of “GHG”;

(b)omit the definition of “nature protection area”;

(c)omit the words from the definition of “primary forest” to the end.

(4) For paragraph 2 substitute—

Compliance with the sustainability criteria

2.(1) To the extent that renewable transport fuel was produced from a feedstock listed in column (2) of the table below, that feedstock meets the sustainability criteria if it meets the conditions specified, in relation to the feedstock concerned, in column (3) of the table.

(1) Entry number(2) Feedstock(3) Conditions that the feedstock must meet in order to meet the sustainability criteria
1Forest biomass, including residues from forestry or wastes from forestryThe GHG emission saving threshold and the forest criteria
2Residues, including processing residues, which are not residues from agriculture, aquaculture, fisheries or forestryThe GHG emission saving threshold
3Wastes, which are not wastes from agriculture, aquaculture, fisheries or forestryThe GHG emission saving threshold
4Residues from agriculture or wastes from agricultureThe GHG emission saving threshold, the land criteria and the soil carbon criteria
5Renewable energy of non-biomass originThe GHG emission saving threshold
6Any feedstock not falling within entries 1 to 5 aboveThe GHG emission saving threshold and the land criteria

(2) A relevant feedstock meets the soil carbon criteria if the renewable transport fuel supplier provides evidence, by reference to the guidance published by the Administrator under article 15(1)(m), that satisfies the Administrator that adequate monitoring or management plans are in place for the land concerned which address the impacts on soil quality and soil carbon of the harvesting of the relevant feedstock from that land.

(3) In the table, “GHG emission saving threshold” means the threshold established in accordance with paragraph 3..

(5) In paragraph 3—

(a)in sub-paragraph (3)—

(i)in paragraph (a), for “in accordance with paragraph 5” substitute “by reference to the guidance published by the Administrator under article 15(1)(m)”;

(ii)in paragraph (b), for “in accordance with paragraph 6” substitute “by reference to the guidance published by the Administrator under article 15(1)(m)”;

(b)in sub-paragraph (4), for “any guidance produced by the Administrator under article 15(2)(b)” substitute “the guidance published by the Administrator under article 15(1)(m)”.

(6) In paragraph 4, for sub-paragraphs (a) and (b) substitute—

(a)where the renewable transport fuel is not RFNBO—

(i)if the fuel is produced in an old chain of installations, 55%;

(ii)if the fuel is produced in a new chain of installations, 65%;

(b)where the renewable transport fuel is RFNBO, 65%..

(7) Omit paragraphs 5 to 9.

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