Biofuels (Sustainability Criteria) (Amendment) Regulations, 2019

L.N. 324 of 2019

REGULATOR FOR ENERGY AND WATER SERVICES ACT

(CAP. 545)

Biofuels (Sustainability Criteria) (Amendment) Regulations, 2019

IN EXERCISE of the powers conferred by article 37(1) of the

Regulator for Energy and Water Services Act, the Minister responsible

for Energy and Water Management, after consultation with the

Regulator for Energy and Water Services, has made the following

regulations:-

(1) The title of these regulations is the Biofuels Citation and

(Sustainability Criteria) (Amendment) Regulations, 2019 and these scope.

regulations shall be read and construed as one with the Biofuels S.L. 545.28.

(Sustainability Criteria) Regulations, hereinafter referred to as "the

principal regulations".

(2) The scope of these regulations is to transpose points (p), (t)

and (v) added by Article 2(1) of Directive (EU) 2015/1513 of the

European Parliament and of the Council of 9 September 2015

amending Directive 98/70/EC relating to the quality of petrol and

diesel fuels and amending Directive 2009/28/EC on the promotion of

the use of energy from renewable sources.

In sub-article (2) of article 1 of the principal regulations, Amends

the words "as amended by Directive 2009/30/EC.", shall be substituted regulation

the principal

by the words "as amended by Directive 2009/30/EC" and immediately regulations.

thereafter there shall be added the words "and to points (p), (t) and (v)

added by Article 2(1) of Directive (EU) 2015/1513 of the European

Parliament and of the Council of 9 September 2015 amending

Directive 98/70/EC relating to the quality of petrol and diesel fuels and

amending Directive 2009/28/EC on the promotion of the use of energy

from renewable sources.".

Regulation 2 of the principal regulations shall be amended Amends

regulation 2 of

as follows

the principal

regulations.

(a) immediately after the definition "aerothermal energy"

there shall be added the following new definition

" "agricultural, aquaculture, fisheries and forestry

residues" means residues that are directly generated by

agriculture, aquaculture, fisheries and forestry; they do not

include residues from related industries or processing;";

(b) immediately after the definition "the Minister" there

shall be added the following new definition

" "processing residue" means a substance that is not

the end product(s) that a production process directly seeks

to produce; it is not a primary aim of the production process

and the process has not been deliberately modified to

produce it;";

(c) in the definition "typical value", for the words

"production pathway." there shall be substituted the words

"production pathway;" and immediately thereafter there shall be

added the following new definition

" "waste" means any substance or object which the

holder discards or intends or is required to discard

Provided that, substances that have been intentionally

modified or contaminated to meet that definition are not

covered by this definition;".

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