The Renewables Obligation Order 2015

Common agricultural policy requirements in the case of bioliquidsE+W

This section has no associated Explanatory Memorandum

62.  ROCs are not 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—

(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 M1 (“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.

Marginal Citations

M1OJ No L 347, 20.12.13, p549.