{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/domestic-renewable-heat-incentive-scheme-and-renewable-heat-incentive-scheme-amendment-regulations-2021/regulation-39",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/domestic-renewable-heat-incentive-scheme-and-renewable-heat-incentive-scheme-amendment-regulations-2021/regulation-39.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2021/76",
  "legislation_title": "The Domestic Renewable Heat Incentive Scheme and Renewable Heat Incentive Scheme (Amendment) Regulations 2021",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/domestic-renewable-heat-incentive-scheme-and-renewable-heat-incentive-scheme-amendment-regulations-2021",
  "path": "regulation/39",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "39",
  "heading": "Insertion of Schedule 4A",
  "text": "After Schedule 4 (land criteria) insert—\n“SCHEDULE 4A\nSolid biomass which is wood: Criteria for woodfuel quality\nRegulation 47\n1. This Schedule applies to solid biomass (excluding solid biomass contained in waste) which—\n(a) is woodfuel; and\n(b) is used to generate heat in an accredited RHI installation.\n2. All wood pellets must meet the ENplus A1 standard or an equivalent standard.\n3. All other woodfuel must meet fuel quality standard EN 15234-1: 2011, ISO 9001: 2015 or EN ISO 17225-4: 2014 or an equivalent standard.\n4. All woodfuel must be certified by the Woodsure Certification Scheme or an equivalent certification scheme as meeting the standard in paragraph 2 or 3.\n5. The certification scheme must provide assurance of the supply chain of the woodfuel.\n6. In this Schedule, “woodfuel” means—\n(a) woodchip;\n(b) logs;\n(c) wood pellets; and\n(d) wood briquettes,\nregardless of whether the wood will undergo any other process before burning.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Accessible through the ENplus website (https://www.enplus-pellets.eu/en-in/)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Available at https://standards.iteh.ai/catalog/standards/cen/18307fb9-4548-40e6-8352-b7f0c462768e/en-15234-1-2011 ."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Available at https://www.iso.org/standard/62085.html."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "Available at https://standards.iteh.ai/catalog/standards/cen/acae5637-0946-4570-8613-eac7a6be6b27/en-iso-17225-1-2014 ."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "Accessible through the Woodsure website (https://woodsure.co.uk/about-woodsure/)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2021/76/regulation/39",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:18:08.244820+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}