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Renewable Energy Directive II In force Unlisted

Overview

Jurisdiction
European Union
Topic
-
Instrument type
Directive
Reference number
2018/2001
Valid from
2018-12-24
Valid to
2021-06-30
Modified date
2021-06-30
Listed at
Unlisted draft
Withdrawn at
-
Description
Establishes an EU framework for promoting renewable energy, including national contributions, support schemes, self-consumption, heating and cooling, transport, guarantees of origin, permitting procedures, and sustainability and greenhouse-gas-saving criteria for bioenergy.

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Rule sets

Label Effective
Bioenergy used for counting or support 2018-12-24 — 9999-12-31
Applies from milestone:
Entry into Force (2018-12-24)
Expires at milestone:
-
Conditions:
  • Products contains No Linked Attribute Value “biofuels” “bioliquids” “biomass fuels”
Bioenergy from specified wastes and residues 2018-12-24 — 9999-12-31
Applies from milestone:
Entry into Force (2018-12-24)
Expires at milestone:
-
Conditions:
  • Products contains No Linked Attribute Value “biofuels from waste or residues” “bioliquids from waste or residues” “biomass fuels from waste or residues”
Biomass-fuel installations above the thresholds 2018-12-24 — 9999-12-31
Applies from milestone:
Entry into Force (2018-12-24)
Expires at milestone:
-
Conditions:
  • Products contains No Linked Attribute Value “solid biomass fuels” “gaseous biomass fuels”
  • Activities contains No Linked Attribute Value “electricity production” “heating production” “cooling production” “fuel production”
Fuels from installations starting operation from 2021 2021-01-01 — 9999-12-31
Applies from milestone:
Application Start (2021-01-01)
Expires at milestone:
-
Conditions:
  • Products contains No Linked Attribute Value “biofuels” “biogas for transport” “bioliquids”
Biomass installations starting operation from 2021 to 2025 2021-01-01 — 2025-12-31
Applies from milestone:
Application Start (2021-01-01)
Expires at milestone:
-
Conditions:
  • Products contains No Linked Attribute Value “electricity from biomass fuels” “heating from biomass fuels” “cooling from biomass fuels”
Biomass installations starting operation from 2026 2026-01-01 — 9999-12-31
Applies from milestone:
Application Start (2026-01-01)
Expires at milestone:
-
Conditions:
  • Products contains No Linked Attribute Value “electricity from biomass fuels” “heating from biomass fuels” “cooling from biomass fuels”

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Obligations

Title Kind Rule set
Sustainability evidence and mass-balance system Due Diligence -
Description:
Economic operators must demonstrate compliance with the sustainability and greenhouse-gas savings criteria and use a mass-balance system for that purpose.
Frequency:
Continuous
Check frequency:
-
Products/Services:
Biofuels, bioliquids, biomass fuels and other fuels eligible for counting in the transport sector
Checking responsibility:
Competent Member State authorities and independent auditors
Check method:
Mass-balance system and evidence of compliance with sustainability and greenhouse-gas savings criteria
Rule set:
-
Source reference:
Article 30(1)
Source excerpt:
Member States shall require economic operators to show that the sustainability and greenhouse gas emissions saving criteria laid down in Article 29(2) to (7) and (10) have been fulfilled. For those purposes, they shall require economic operators to use a mass balance system
Reporting, data provision and independent auditing Reporting -
Description:
Economic operators must submit reliable information on the savings thresholds and sustainability criteria, make the underlying data available on request, arrange adequate independent auditing and publish the geographic origin and feedstock type annually.
Frequency:
Annual
Check frequency:
-
Products/Services:
Biofuels, bioliquids, biomass fuels, renewable liquid and gaseous transport fuels of non-biological origin and recycled carbon fuels
Checking responsibility:
Independent auditors under supervision of competent authorities
Check method:
Submission of reliable information, provision of underlying data on request and independent auditing of submitted information
Rule set:
-
Source reference:
Article 30(3)
Source excerpt:
Member States shall take measures to ensure that economic operators submit reliable information regarding the compliance with the greenhouse gas emissions savings thresholds set in, and adopted pursuant to, Article 25(2), and with the sustainability and greenhouse gas emissions saving criteria laid down in Article 29(2) to (7) and (10), and that economic operators make available to the relevant Member State, upon request, the data that were used to develop the information. Member States shall require economic operators to arrange for an adequate standard of independent auditing of the information submitted
Database entries for renewable fuels Record Keeping -
Description:
Relevant economic operators must enter transaction information and fuel sustainability characteristics, from production to the fuel supplier placing the fuel on the market, into the Union database or a linked national database.
Frequency:
Event-triggered
Check frequency:
-
Products/Services:
Liquid and gaseous transport fuels eligible to count towards the renewable-energy share
Checking responsibility:
Competent Member State authorities and the Commission
Check method:
Entry of transactions and sustainability characteristics in the relevant database
Rule set:
-
Source reference:
Article 28(2)
Source excerpt:
Member States shall require the relevant economic operators to enter into that database information on the transactions made and the sustainability characteristics of those fuels, including their life-cycle greenhouse gas emissions, starting from their point of production to the fuel supplier that places the fuel on the market.
Database reporting of transport shares Reporting -
Description:
Fuel suppliers must enter the information necessary to verify compliance with the minimum renewable-energy and advanced-biofuel shares into the relevant database.
Frequency:
Event-triggered
Check frequency:
-
Products/Services:
Fuels supplied by a fuel supplier to comply with the national transport obligation
Checking responsibility:
Competent Member State authorities
Check method:
Entry of information necessary to verify compliance into the relevant database
Rule set:
-
Source reference:
Article 28(2)
Source excerpt:
Fuel suppliers shall enter the information necessary to verify compliance with the requirements laid down in the first and fourth subparagraphs of Article 25(1) into the relevant database.
Cancellation of guarantees of origin Record Keeping -
Description:
Energy companies must cancel guarantees of origin no later than six months after the end of their validity when disclosing the origin of renewable energy.
Frequency:
Event-triggered
Check frequency:
-
Products/Services:
Renewable energy disclosed in an energy supplier’s energy mix or under contracts marketed by reference to renewable-energy consumption
Checking responsibility:
Energy companies; supervision by Member States or designated competent bodies
Check method:
Use and cancellation of guarantees of origin
Rule set:
-
Source reference:
Article 19(4)
Source excerpt:
Member States shall ensure that energy companies cancel guarantees of origin at the latest six months after the end of the validity of the guarantee of origin.

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Milestones

Date Type Description
2018-12-11 Adopted Adoption of the Directive
Source reference:
Final act
Source excerpt:
Done at Strasbourg, 11 December 2018.
2018-12-24 Entry into Force Entry into force of the Directive
Source reference:
Article 38
Source excerpt:
This Directive shall enter into force on the third day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
2021-01-01 Application Start Start of the greenhouse-gas savings threshold for renewable liquid and gaseous transport fuels of non-biological origin
Source reference:
Article 25(2)
Source excerpt:
The greenhouse gas emissions savings from the use of renewable liquid and gaseous transport fuels of non-biological origin shall be at least 70 % from 1 January 2021.
2021-06-30 Transposition Deadline Deadline for transposition into national law
Source reference:
Article 36(1)
Source excerpt:
Member States shall bring into force the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with Articles 2 to 13, 15 to 31 and 37 and Annexes II, III and V to IX, by 30 June 2021.
2021-07-01 Repeal Repeal of Directive 2009/28/EC
Source reference:
Article 37
Source excerpt:
Directive 2009/28/EC, as amended by the Directives listed in Part A of Annex X, is repealed with effect from 1 July 2021
2026-01-01 Application Start Increase of the greenhouse-gas savings threshold for biomass-fuel installations producing electricity, heating or cooling
Source reference:
Article 29(10)(d)
Source excerpt:
80 % for installations starting operation from 1 January 2026.

Linked regulations

Type Regulation
Cites Environmental Information Directive
Cites Industrial Emissions Directive