The Renewables Obligation (Scotland) Order 2009

[F1 Common agricultural policy requirements

22B.   No SROCs are to be issued in respect of any electricity generated by a generating station from bioliquid if—

(a) the bioliquid is derived from biomaterial which—

(i) is of agricultural origin;

(ii) was cultivated in the EU; and

(iii) is not waste; and

(b) the Authority is satisfied that the biomaterial referred to in sub-paragraph (a) was—

[F2 (i) cultivated in a manner that breached a requirement or standard listed in the third column of the table in Annex 2 to Regulation (EU) No 1306/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the financing, management and monitoring of the common agricultural policy (“the 2013 Regulation”) and corresponding to the entry in the first column of that table for “environment, climate change, good agricultural condition of land”;

(ii) cultivated in a manner that breached statutory management requirement number 10 in Annex 2 to the 2013 Regulation; or

(iii) obtained from land which does not meet the minimum requirements for good agricultural and environmental condition defined pursuant to Article 94 of the 2013 Regulation.]]

Textual Amendments

F1 Arts. 22A, 22B inserted (1.4.2011) by The Renewables Obligation (Scotland) Amendment Order 2011 (S.S.I. 2011/225), arts. 1, 10 (with art. 19)

F2 Art. 22B(b)(i)-(iii) substituted for art. 22B(b)(i)(ii) (1.12.2015) by The Renewables Obligation (Scotland) Amendment Order 2015 (S.S.I. 2015/384), arts. 1(1), 7 (with art. 16)