The Renewable Transport Fuel Obligations (Sustainable Aviation Fuel) Order 2024

1. Introductory Text

2. Part 1 Introductory Provisions

   1. 1. Citation, commencement and extent

   2. 2. Interpretation

3. Part 2 The SAF obligation

   1. 3. The SAF obligation

   2. 4. Determination of amounts of sustainable aviation fuel

4. Part 3 The Administrator

   1. 5. The Administrator

   2. 6. Establishment of SAF accounts

   3. 7. Powers of the Administrator to require further information or evidence

   4. 8. Closure of accounts

   5. 9. Managing Accounts

   6. 10. Processing of information and evidence

   7. 11. Duty to require information from suppliers

   8. 12. Power to require information

   9. 13. Mass balance system

   10. 14. Other duties imposed and powers conferred on the Administrator

   11. 15. Eligibility of feedstock produced from wastes of fossil origin

5. Part 4 Certificates

   1. 16. Application for SAF certificates

   2. 17. Verifier’s assurance procedures, reports and declarations

   3. 18. Issue of SAF certificates

   4. 19. Transfer of SAF certificates

   5. 20. Revocation of a SAF certificate

6. Part 5 Discharge of an obligation

   1. 21. Payments

   2. 22. Segregated oils and fats

   3. 23. Use of SAF certificates in later obligations periods

7. Part 6 Civil Penalties

   1. 24. Civil Penalties

   2. 25. Objections to civil penalties

8. Part 7 Amendment of the Renewable Transport Fuel Obligations Order 2007

   1. 26. Introductory

   2. 27. Amendment of article 2

   3. 28. Amendment of article 3

   4. 29. Amendment of article 4

   5. 30. Amendment of article 5

   6. 31. Amendment of article 16

   7. 32. Amendment of article 17

9. Part 8 Miscellaneous

   1. 33. Review

10. Signature

11. Schedules

    1. Schedule 1

       Sustainability criteria

       1. 1. In this Schedule— “GHG emissions saving threshold” means the threshold...

       2. 2. To the extent that relevant sustainable aviation fuel was produced...

       3. 3. A feedstock meets the soil carbon criteria if the supplier...

       4. 4. A waste of fossil origin meets the sustainable waste management...

       5. 5. Subject to paragraph 6, an amount of sustainable aviation fuel...

       6. 6. Where the sustainable aviation fuel is produced partly from raw...

       7. 7. The minimum GHG emissions saving from the use of an...

    2. Schedule 2

       Land criteria

       1. 1. A relevant feedstock meets the land criteria if the supplier...

       2. 2. Land with a high biodiversity value that had one of...

       3. 3. Subject to paragraph 4, land with high-carbon stock that had...

       4. 4. Paragraph 3 does not apply if, at the time the...

       5. 5. Land that was peatland at any time in January 2008,...

    3. Schedule 3

       Forest criteria

       1. 1. In this Schedule— “forest regeneration” means the re-establishment of a...

       2. 2. Forest biomass meets the forest criteria if the supplier provides...

       3. 3. Subject to paragraph 4, the country in which the forest...

       4. 4. Where evidence is not available to demonstrate that the legal...

       5. 5. Subject to paragraph 6, the country or regional economic integration...

       6. 6. Where evidence is not available to demonstrate that the requirement...

12. Explanatory Note