Division 19.1 DefinitionsF1

In addition to the definitions set out in Article 2, the following definitions shall apply:

1. (4)

   ‘energy resource’ means a concentration or occurrence of an energy source which may have been present, is present or may be present in the future.

2. (5)

   ‘fossil fuels’ means a form of non-renewable primary energy formed by natural processes such as the anaerobic decomposition of buried dead organisms, which contains high percentages of carbon and includes coal, crude oil, and natural gas.

3. (6)

   ‘primary energy’ means energy that has not been subjected to any conversion or transformation process.

4. (7)

   ‘non-renewable energy’ means natural resources which, due to long-term formation, cannot be produced, grown, generated, or used on a scale which can sustain its consumption rate.

5. (8)

   ‘energy from renewable sources’ means energy from renewable non-fossil sources, namely wind, solar, aerothermal, geothermal, hydrothermal and ocean energy, hydropower, biomass, landfill gas, sewage treatment plant gas and biogasesF2....

6. (9)

   ‘waste as energy resources’ means a fuel that may consist of many different materials coming from combustible industrial, institutional, hospital and household waste such as rubber, plastics, waste fossil oils and other similar commodities. It is either solid or liquid in form, renewable or non-renewable, biodegradable or non-biodegradable.