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Resolving Responsibilities, clarifying criteria: Sustainability certification under the EU Renewable Energies Directive

Presentation by Martina Gaebler, GIZ31 May - Lviv

01.06.2012 Seite 1Project: Supporting sustainable biomass production and use in Ukraine

Content

� EU’s Renewable Energies targets and its request for sustainable feedstock

� Why sustainability criteria and what are


� Why sustainability criteria and what are they?

� Certification as a tool to prove compliance with sustainability criteria

� What certification schemes can be used under the RED?

EU aims to increase consumption of renewable energies

� 20% renenewable energies in the national energy mixes by 2020

� 10% renewable energies in the transport


� 10% renewable energies in the transport sector by 2020

� Legal basis: Directive 2009/28/EC of 23 April 2009 (Renewable Energies Directive, RED)

Biofuels are part of the solution

EU biofuels market potentials for Ukrainian feedstocks

EU market: No biofuel

self-


Source: European Commission Joint Research Centre (2011): EU renewable energy targets in 2020: Analysis of scenarios for transport

self-sufficiency

Imports needed

Realising export potentials to EU bioenergy market

� Liquid biofuels must meet sustainability criteria in order to be counted towards these targets and receive financial support (EU Renewable Energy Directive RED)


support (EU Renewable Energy Directive RED)� Biofuel feedstock produced in Ukraine are only attractive

for the EU market if producers can prove compliance with the EU sustainability criteria

� Compliance can be proven by being certified under a recognised biomass certification scheme

RED compliance criteria:

� 35% (50%) green house gas savings compared fossil fuels

� Feedstock not produced on

Sustainability criteria for biofuels

Mitigate climate change

Land conversion

RED reporting criteria (compliance mandatory in some schemes)

� Respect of ILO Core Labour Norms, land rights

Protect social rights


� Feedstock not produced on protected areas, primary forests, highly biodiverse grasslands, land with high carbon stocks or peat land (cut off Jan 2008)

� Traceability from production to consumption (mass balance)

Trace sustainable biofuels

Norms, land rights

� Protection of water, soil and air quality and quantity

Protect the environment

Why sustainability criteria?


How to proove compliance with sustainability criteria?

certification schemes as a tool to show compliance


What is certification?� Certification is used to make a claim

� claim compliance with EU RED sustainability criteria

� Certification offers a guarantee of quality or way of production


production � guarantee that biofuel was produced in an environmentally responsible manner

� Certification assures credibility through control by an independent system or authority

What are certification schemes?

Standards- Compliance requirements -

Documents that tell you what to do and what not to do in your enterprise

Documents that tell the auditor how to carry out the audit

Ensures that all audit firms operate


Accreditation- Quality control –

Certification- Guarantee system -

Checks that you respect the rules set in the standard and awards the certificate, if positive

audit firms operate according to the audit standard. Ensures that audit results are credible and comparable

Certification systems – bodies and functions

Standard setting body Standard setting

Production standard

Chain of custody standard

ResultField of actionBody


setting body

Accreditation body

Conformityassessment of

production

Conformityassessment of chain

of custody

Quality control ofCertification Body

Certificate for producer

Certificate for chain of custody

Accredtation of CertificationBody

Approval procedure andrequirements for certification

bodies

Certification body

Inspection body

ISCC, REDcert, RSB, NTA 8080, …

Standard setting

Production standard

Chain of custody standard

ResultField of actionBody

Certification systems – bodies and functions


8080, …

National Accreditation Body,

BLE, ASI

Conformityassessment of

production

Conformityassessment of chain

of custody

Quality control ofCertification Body

Certificate for producer

Certificate for chain of custody

Accredtation of CertificationBody

Approval procedure andrequirements for certification

bodies

Abcert, DQS,SGS,

PCU, Bureau Veritas, …

Which are the certification schemes under RED?

� Type A: Multi-stakeholder initiatives, e.g. Roundtable on Sustainable Biofuels (RSB), International Sustainability and Carbon Certification (ISCC), NTA 8080, etc.

� Type B: Private sector initiatives that have developed a


� Type B: Private sector initiatives that have developed a scheme for the sector, e.g. REDcert (Germany), 2BSvs (France)

� Type C: Companies that have developed certification schemes that are only applicable in their respective business, e.g. Abengoa Bioenergía, Greenergy

All schemes must be officially recognised by the EU Commission or an EU Member State

EUEU

RenewableEnergy Directive

§§EU

RenewableEnergy Directive

§ Can recognize(national authorisation)

Automatically recognizeAutomatically recognize

recognizes (EU wide authorisation)

Member State 1National legislation §§Member State 1National legislation §

Will not automatically recognise systems

��Applies for recognition

Member State 2National legislation §

Member State 2National legislation §§

Can automatically recognise systems recognised by other MS

Recognition of certification schemes

Applies for recognition


Certification System A

Certification System B

recognise systems recognised only by MS

Chose CS to show compliance

Biofuels Supply Chain OperatorsBiofuels Supply Chain Operators��

� Full implementation: Germany, Netherlands, Sweden, Slovakia, Hungary

� Legislation being developed or in place or partial implementation: France, Belgium, Portugal, Italy, Spain, UK, Austria, Portugal

State of RED implementation in the EU


Austria, Portugal� Not yet transposed: Finland, Greece and Poland (the European

Commission decided on 22 March 2012 to send “Reasoned Opinions”)

Commission is currently preparing a report on the implementation status.

State of RED implementation in the EUBelgium France Germany Netherlands Poland

Fullimplementation

17.11.2011 1.12.2011 01.2011 01.2012?

Transition period harvests 2011 + 2012 considered sustainable

-- expired 2011 and 2012 (harvest 2011)

?

National system �� -- ?

Nationalrecognition of �� -- �� ?


recognition ofprivate systems

�� -- �� ?

Acceptance of EU recognisedsystems

�� (��)

Acceptance ofsystemsrecognised in other EU MS

-- --�� -- ?

Information requirements in transition period

none none n.a. Partial information andverification

?

Obligated operator Biofuels producer/importer

Final distributor Final distributor

Final distributor ?

Overview of biomass certification schemes

Name of System FeestockEU

RecognitionRegional scope

Bonsucro* Sugar cane �� global

ISCC (International Carbon and All �� global

Type A: Multi-stakeholder systems

About 25 certification systems have applied for recognition


ISCC (International Carbon andSustainability Certification)

All �� global

NTA 8080 (Dutch Sustainability Scheme) All pending global

RSB (Roundtable Sustainable Biofuels) All �� global

RSPO (Roundtable Sustainable Palm Oil)

Palm Oil (��) Global

RTRS (Roundtable Responsible Soy) Soy �� Alloutside EU

*The Scheme is not recognized for Article 17(3)(c) on highly biodiverse grasslands

Relevant for Ukraine

Overview of biomass certification schemes cont.Type B: Private sector systems


RecognitionRegional

scope

Abengoa RED Bioenergy Sustainability Assurance All �� global

Ensus voluntary scheme for Ensus bioethanolproduction

Wheat �� Ensus plant EU

Greenergy Brazilian Bioethanol verification Sugar cane �� Brazil


Greenergy Brazilian Bioethanol verificationprogramme*

Sugar cane �� Brazil

Neste Oil Palm Oil (?) Pending ?

Type C: Company systems


RecognitionGerman

RecognitionRegional

scope

Biograce* All pending -- global

REDcert All pending �� EU+Ukraine

2BSvs (Biomass Biofuels Sustainability voluntary scheme)

All�� -- Global

*partial scheme for GHG calcualtions

Thank youСпасибо


Contact the Project Team

� GIZMartina Gaebler

[email protected]: +49 619679 -6501


Phone: +49 619679 -6501

� IERYuliya Ogarenko

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