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Article 17 U.K. Definitions

For the purposes of this Section, the following definitions shall apply:

1.

‘environmental protection’ means any action designed to remedy or prevent damage to physical surroundings or natural resources by the beneficiary’s own activities, to reduce risk of such damage or to lead to a more efficient use of natural resources, including energy-saving measures and the use of renewable sources of energy;

2.

‘energy-saving measures’ mean action which enables undertakings to reduce the amount of energy used notably in their production cycle;

3.

‘Community standard’ means:

(a)

a mandatory Community standard setting the levels to be attained in environmental terms by individual undertakings; or

(b)

the obligation under Directive 2008/1/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council(1) to use the best available techniques as set out in the most recent relevant information published by the Commission pursuant to Article 17(2) of that Directive;

4.

‘renewable energy sources’ means the following renewable non-fossil energy sources: wind, solar, geothermal, wave, tidal, hydropower installations, biomass, landfill gas, sewage treatment plant gas and biogases;

5.

‘biofuels’ means liquid or gaseous fuel for transport produced from biomass;

6.

‘sustainable biofuels’ means biofuels fulfilling the sustainability criteria set out in Article 15 of the proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and the Council on the promotion of the use of energy from renewable sources(2); once the Directive has been adopted by the European Parliament and the Council and published in the Official Journal of the European Union, the sustainability criteria laid down in the Directive shall apply;

7.

‘energy from renewable energy sources’ means energy produced by plants using only renewable energy sources, as well as the share in terms of calorific value of energy produced from renewable energy sources in hybrid plants — which also use conventional energy sources; it includes renewable electricity used for filling storage systems, but excludes electricity produced as a result of storage systems;

8.

‘cogeneration’ means the simultaneous generation in one process of thermal energy and electrical and/or mechanical energy;

9.

‘high efficiency cogeneration’ means cogeneration meeting the criteria of Annex III to Directive 2004/8/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council(3) and satisfying the harmonised efficiency reference values established by Commission Decision 2007/74/EC(4);

10.

‘environmental tax’ means a tax whose specific tax base has a clear negative effect on the environment or which seeks to tax certain activities, goods or services so that the environmental costs may be included in their price and/or so that producers and consumers are oriented towards activities which better respect the environment;

11.

‘Community minimum tax level’ means the minimum level of taxation provided for in Community legislation; for energy products and electricity, the Community minimum tax level means the minimum level of taxation laid down in Annex I to Directive 2003/96/EC;

12.

‘tangible assets’ means investments in land which are strictly necessary in order to meet environmental objectives, investments in buildings, plant and equipment intended to reduce or eliminate pollution and nuisances, and investments to adapt production methods with a view to protecting the environment.

(1)

OJ L 24, 29.1.2008, p. 8.

(2)

COM(2008) 19 final.

(3)

OJ L 52, 21.2.2004, p. 50.

(4)

OJ L 32, 6.2.2007, p. 183.