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

Definitions of energy products and relevant use U.K.

3.—(1) The following paragraphs of this regulation define the various descriptions of energy product referred to in these Regulations and the relevant use of such products for the purposes of these Regulations.

(2) “Energy product” means—

(a) liquid fuel; or

(b) gaseous fuel;

but does not include detergents, cetane improvers, lubricity improvers, viscosity improvers, oxidation inhibitors, gum inhibitors, anti-corrosive preparations and like substances intended for use as fuel additives.

(3) For the purposes of these Regulations one kilogram of gaseous fuel is to be treated as equivalent to one litre of liquid fuel.

(4) “Relevant use” means use within the United Kingdom in—

(a) road vehicles;

(b) non-road mobile machinery, including inland waterway vessels which do not normally operate at sea;

(c) agricultural tractors and forestry tractors; and

(d) recreational craft which do not normally operate at sea.

(5) For the purposes of paragraph (4)—

(a) the terms “non-road mobile machinery” and “inland waterway vessel” have the meanings given by Article 2 of Council Directive 97/68/EC(1);

(b) the terms “agricultural tractor” and “forestry tractor” have the meanings given by Article 1 of Council Directive 2000/25/EC(2);

(c) the term “recreational craft” has the meaning given by Article 1(3) of Council Directive 94/25/EC(3); and

(d) an inland waterway vessel or a recreational craft does not normally operate at sea if it does not normally operate beyond the limits of waters in—

(i) category A;

(ii) category B; and

(iii) category C, excluding tidal rivers and estuaries;

where categories A, B and C have the meanings given to them in Merchant Shipping Notice 1827(M) issued by the Maritime and Coastguard Agency.

(6) “Fossil fuel” means coal, substances produced directly or indirectly from coal, lignite, natural gas, crude liquid petroleum, or petroleum products where—

(a) “natural gas” means any gas derived from natural strata; and

(b) “petroleum products” means the following substances produced directly or indirectly from crude, that is to say, fuels, lubricants, bitumen, wax, industrial spirits and any wide-range substance (meaning a substance whose final boiling point at normal atmospheric pressure is more than 50°C higher than its initial boiling point).

(7) “Renewable transport fuel” is liquid fuel or gaseous fuel produced wholly or partially from a relevant feedstock whether blended with fossil fuel or not.

(8) “Wholly renewable transport fuel” means renewable transport fuel which is produced wholly from a relevant feedstock.

(9) “Partially renewable transport fuel” means renewable transport fuel other than wholly renewable transport fuel.

Commencement Information

I1 Reg. 3 in force at 1.1.2013, see reg. 1

(1)

OJ No L 59, 27.2.1998, p.1; a relevant amendment to the Directive was made by Directive 2004/26/EC (OJ No L 225, 25.6.2004, p.3).

(2)

OJ No L 173, 12.7.2000, p1.

(3)

OJ No L 164, 30.6.1994, p15; a relevant amendment to the Directive was made by Directive 2003/44/EC (OJ No L 214, 26.8.2003, p.18).