Article 6 Amendment of article 4 (the renewable transport fuel obligation)

After article 4, insert—

“Duty of the Secretary of State in respect of the directive

4A.

(1)

The Secretary of State must keep under review whether further steps need to be taken in order to meet the requirements of the directive in respect of transport.

(2)

Without prejudice to the generality of paragraph (1), the Secretary of State must keep under review—

(a)

whether the requirements of the directive in respect of transport will be met if no changes are made to the way in which the specified amount is determined in respect of the obligation periods^f1 beginning on or after 15th April 2014;

(b)

the extent to which relevant feedstocks from agriculture cultivated in the United Kingdom and used for the production of renewable transport fuel have been obtained in accordance with the cross compliance requirements.

(3)

The Secretary of State must determine whether steps need to be taken under paragraph (1).”