The Motor Fuel (Road Vehicle and Mobile Machinery) Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reporting Regulations 2012

Duty to require information from regulated suppliers

13.—(1) The Administrator must impose a requirement on a regulated supplier to provide the Administrator with—

(a) information as to—

(i) whether the supplier has supplied any energy products for relevant use during each reporting period;

(ii) the total amount of each type of energy product supplied during each reporting period expressed as—

(aa) the volume of liquid fuel supplied if applicable; or

(bb) the weight of gaseous fuel supplied if applicable; and in all cases

(cc) the amount of energy supplied calculated, where applicable, in accordance with Annex III of the Renewable Energy Directive;

(iii) how much of the fuel supplied during each reporting period is—

(aa) fossil fuel (including fossil fuel blended with other fuel);

(bb) wholly renewable transport fuel (excluding fossil fuel blended with wholly renewable transport fuel);

(cc) partially renewable transport fuel (excluding fossil fuel blended with partially renewable transport fuel);

(iv) how much of the energy content of the wholly renewable transport fuel referred to in paragraph (iii)(bb) is attributable to sustainable feedstocks;

(v) how much of the energy content of the partially renewable transport fuel referred to in paragraph (iii)(cc) is attributable to sustainable feedstocks;

(vi) the greenhouse gas emissions per unit of energy of each type of energy product supplied during each reporting period; and

(b) the additional sustainability information in respect of any relevant renewable transport fuel supplied during each reporting period.

(2) The Administrator must impose requirements as to—

(a) the form in which the information must be provided;

(b) the methodology to be used in calculating and providing the information; and

(c) the period within which it must be provided.

(3) The Administrator may require a supplier to produce such evidence as the Administrator may determine is necessary in order to substantiate information which the supplier has provided to the Administrator under this regulation.

(4) In exercising the power under paragraph (3) the Administrator may impose requirements as to—

(a) the form in which the evidence must be produced;

(b) the methodology to be used in compiling and producing the evidence; and

(c) the period within which the evidence must be produced.

(5) Where the Administrator imposes a requirement under this regulation on a supplier to produce information or evidence, the supplier must—

(a) produce that information or evidence; and

(b) ensure that it is—

(i) accurate; and

(ii) produced in such form, and using such methodology, and within such period, as the Administrator requires.

(6) Without prejudice to the generality of paragraphs (1) to (5), the Administrator is under no obligation to impose a requirement on a regulated supplier to produce information or evidence to confirm matters previously reported by the same supplier to the Administrator appointed by the RTFO Order.