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Resolving Responsibilities, clarifying criteria: Sustainability certification under the EU Renewable Energies Directive
Presentation by Martina Gaebler, GIZ31 May - Lviv
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Content
� EU’s Renewable Energies targets and its request for sustainable feedstock
� Why sustainability criteria and what are
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� 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
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� 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-
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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)
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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
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� 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?
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How to proove compliance with sustainability criteria?
certification schemes as a tool to show compliance
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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� 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
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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
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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 ���� -- ���� ���� ?
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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
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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
Name of System FeestockEU
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
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Greenergy Brazilian Bioethanol verificationprogramme*
Sugar cane ���� Brazil
Neste Oil Palm Oil (?) Pending ?
Type C: Company systems
Name of System FeestockEU
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
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Contact the Project Team
� GIZMartina Gaebler
[email protected]: +49 619679 -6501
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Phone: +49 619679 -6501
� IERYuliya Ogarenko
[email protected]: +38 (044)2786342