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Renewable Energy Directive II In force

Overview

Jurisdiction
European Union
Topic
Energy
Instrument type
Directive
Reference number
2018/2001
Valid from
2018-12-24
Valid to
2030-12-31
Modified date
2018-12-11
Listed at
2026-08-06
Withdrawn at
-
Description
Establishes a common framework for promoting energy from renewable sources, including rules on support schemes, self-consumption, heating and cooling, transport, guarantees of origin, administrative procedures, and sustainability and greenhouse-gas-emissions-saving criteria for biofuels, bioliquids and biomass fuels.

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Rule sets

Label Effective
Economic operators in the sustainable-fuel chain 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” “eligible transport fuels”
Fuel suppliers in the transport sector 2018-12-24 — 9999-12-31
Applies from milestone:
Entry into Force (2018-12-24)
Expires at milestone:
-
Conditions:
  • Activities contains No Linked Attribute Value “fuel supplier” “supplying transport fuel”
Electricity suppliers with renewable-energy disclosure obligations 2018-12-24 — 9999-12-31
Applies from milestone:
Entry into Force (2018-12-24)
Expires at milestone:
-
Conditions:
  • Activities contains No Linked Attribute Value “electricity supplier” “disclosure of energy mix”
Small renewable installations and demonstration projects 2018-12-24 — 9999-12-31
Applies from milestone:
Entry into Force (2018-12-24)
Expires at milestone:
-
Conditions:
  • Activities contains No Linked Attribute Value “renewables self-consumer installation” “demonstration project”
District heating and cooling system operators 2018-12-24 — 9999-12-31
Applies from milestone:
Entry into Force (2018-12-24)
Expires at milestone:
-
Conditions:
  • Activities contains No Linked Attribute Value “district heating operator” “district cooling operator”
Large solid-biomass-fuel installations 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”
Large gaseous-biomass-fuel installations 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 “gaseous biomass fuels”
New biofuel and bioliquid installations 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” “transport biogas” “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 “biomass fuels for electricity” “biomass fuels for heating” “biomass fuels for cooling”
Biomass installations 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 “biomass fuels for electricity” “biomass fuels for heating” “biomass fuels for cooling”

Questions this regulation asks

Attributes only this regulation asks about — criteria no general attribute expresses. A company answers each once.

This regulation asks no questions of its own — every condition uses a general attribute.

Obligations

Title Kind Rule set
Demonstrate sustainability through a mass-balance system Due Diligence -
Description:
Economic operators must demonstrate compliance with the sustainability and greenhouse-gas emissions-saving criteria and use a mass-balance system for that purpose.
Frequency:
Continuous
Check frequency:
Event-triggered
Products/Services:
Biofuels, bioliquids, biomass fuels and other eligible fuels
Checking responsibility:
Member State competent authorities; where applicable, independent auditors and certification bodies
Check method:
Review of the mass-balance system, including assignment of sustainability and emissions characteristics and verification that each consignment is counted only once.
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
Submit and independently audit sustainability data Reporting -
Description:
Economic operators must submit reliable information on compliance with emissions thresholds and sustainability criteria, make the underlying data available upon request and arrange adequate independent auditing.
Frequency:
Continuous
Check frequency:
Event-triggered
Products/Services:
Biofuels, bioliquids, biomass fuels, renewable liquid and gaseous transport fuels of non-biological origin and recycled carbon fuels
Checking responsibility:
Independent auditors and Member State competent authorities
Check method:
Submission of reliable information, provision of underlying data upon request, and independent auditing for accuracy, reliability and fraud resistance.
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
Cancel guarantees of origin Record Keeping -
Description:
Energy companies must cancel guarantees of origin no later than six months after the end of their validity.
Frequency:
Event-triggered
Check frequency:
Event-triggered
Products/Services:
Renewable energy disclosed to final customers
Checking responsibility:
Member State competent authorities or designated competent bodies
Check method:
Cancellation of guarantees of origin within the statutory period after expiry of their validity.
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.
Explain refusal to connect a renewable-energy supplier Reporting -
Description:
Operators of district heating or cooling systems must provide the competent authority with the reasons for refusing a connection and the conditions and measures required to enable the connection.
Frequency:
Event-triggered
Check frequency:
Event-triggered
Products/Services:
District heating and cooling systems
Checking responsibility:
Competent authority of the Member State
Check method:
Provision to the competent authority of the reasons for refusal and the conditions and measures required to enable connection.
Rule set:
-
Source reference:
Article 24(5)
Source excerpt:
Member States shall ensure that, when an operator of a district heating or cooling system refuses to connect a supplier of heating or cooling pursuant to the first subparagraph, information on the reasons for the refusal, as well as the conditions to be met and measures to be taken in the system in order to enable the connection, is provided by that operator to the competent authority in accordance with paragraph 9.

Measures

No measures.

Penalties

No penalties.

Milestones

Date Type Description
2018-12-11 Adopted Adoption of Directive (EU) 2018/2001
Source reference:
Finale Unterzeichnungszeile
Source excerpt:
Done at Strasbourg, 11 December 2018.
2018-12-24 Entry into Force Entry into force of the Directive on the third day following its publication
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 70% greenhouse-gas-emissions-saving 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
2021-12-31 Other Deadline for measures ensuring the availability of renewable transport fuels
Source reference:
Article 28(3)
Source excerpt:
By 31 December 2021, Member States shall take measures to ensure the availability of fuels from renewable sources for transport including with regard to publicly accessible high-power recharging points and other refuelling infrastructure
2022-01-01 Application Start Start of the 0.2% minimum share for advanced biofuels and certain biogas
Source reference:
Article 25(1)
Source excerpt:
Within the minimum share referred to in the first subparagraph, the contribution of advanced biofuels and biogas produced from the feedstock listed in Part A of Annex IX as a share of final consumption of energy in the transport sector shall be at least 0,2 % in 2022
2025-01-01 Application Start Start of the 1% minimum share for advanced biofuels and certain biogas
Source reference:
Article 25(1)
Source excerpt:
at least 1 % in 2025
2026-01-01 Application Start Start of the 80% emissions-saving threshold for certain biomass installations
Source reference:
Article 29(10)(d)
Source excerpt:
80 % for installations starting operation from 1 January 2026.
2030-01-01 Application Start Target year for the 14% minimum renewable-energy share in transport
Source reference:
Article 25(1)
Source excerpt:
the share of renewable energy within the final consumption of energy in the transport sector is at least 14 % by 2030 (minimum share)

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Type Regulation
Cites Environmental Information Directive
Cites Industrial Emissions Directive
Repeals Directive 2009/28/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council
Cites Regulation (EU) 2018/1999 of the European Parliament and of the Council
Cites Regulation (EC) No 1099/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council
Cites Directives 2001/77/EC and 2003/30/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council
Cites Directive 2008/98/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council
Cites Directive 2012/27/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council
Cites Directive 2005/36/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council
Cites Energy Performance of Buildings Directive
Cites Directive (EU) 2015/1513 of the European Parliament and of the Council
Cites Regulation (EU) No 525/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council
Cites Regulation (EU) No 182/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council
Cites Council Directive 2013/18/EU
Cites Directive 2009/72/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council
Cites Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2018/1046 of the European Parliament and of the Council
Cites Commission Recommendation 2003/361/EC
Cites Directive 2009/73/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council
Cites Regulation (EC) No 1059/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council
Cites Directive 98/70/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council
Cites Regulation (EC) No 1069/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council
Cites Directive 2009/31/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council
Cites Commission Decision 2010/335/EU
Cites Directive 2014/94/EU
Cites Directive 2003/4/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council
Cites Directive 2010/31/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council