The Sustainable Biomass Program (SBP) has announced that on September 26, 2022, the European Commission published the legal text of SBP’s recognition under the 2018 Renewable Energy Directive (REDII).
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The Decision entered into force on the day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU), and so became effective as of September 27, 2022.
REDII lays down requirements for, amongst other energy sources, biomass, to ensure that they can be counted towards the targets set in the Directive only if they have been sustainably produced and save significant greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions compared to fossil fuels.
In a statement, SBP says that it “welcomes the Commission’s endorsement of our Standards’ reliability, transparency, and independent auditing as being in line with the requirements of the Directive.”
As Europe’s largest independent certification scheme for woody biomass in large-scale industrial heat and power production, SBP will now take steps “to activate SBP’s systems to allow the scheme to be used to demonstrate compliance with REDII.”
It should be noted that Certificate Holders must take action to comply with SBP’s specific REDII requirements in order to be REDII-compliant; recognition by the Commission of the scheme does not mean biomass carrying an SBP claim is automatically REDII-compliant.
SBP will host a webinar on October 25, 2022, for Certificate Holders and Certification Bodies to outline the REDII requirements and the actions to be taken to ensure compliance with REDII.