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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/renewable-transport-fuel-obligations-order-2007/schedule/paragraph-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2007/3072",
  "legislation_title": "The Renewable Transport Fuel Obligations Order 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/renewable-transport-fuel-obligations-order-2007",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Compliance with the sustainability criteria",
  "text": "(1) To the extent that renewable transport fuel was produced from a feedstock listed in column (2) of the table below, that feedstock meets the sustainability criteria if it meets the conditions specified, in relation to the feedstock concerned, in column (3) of the table.\n(1) Entry number\n(2) Feedstock\n(3) Conditions that the feedstock must meet in order to meet the sustainability criteria\n1\nForest biomass, including residues from forestry or wastes from forestry\nThe GHG emission saving threshold and the forest criteria\n2\nResidues, including processing residues, which are not residues from agriculture, aquaculture, fisheries or forestry\nThe GHG emission saving threshold\n3\nWastes, which are not wastes of biological origin from agriculture, aquaculture, fisheries or forestry\nThe GHG emission saving threshold\n4\nResidues from agriculture or wastes from agriculture\nThe GHG emission saving threshold, the land criteria and the soil carbon criteria\n5\nRenewable energy of non-biomass origin\nThe GHG emission saving threshold\n6\nAny feedstock not falling within entries 1 to 5 or 7\nThe GHG emission saving threshold and the land criteria\n7\nWastes of fossil origin\nThe GHG emission saving threshold and the sustainable waste management criteria\n(2) A relevant feedstock meets the soil carbon criteria if the renewable transport fuel supplier provides evidence, by reference to the guidance published by the Administrator under article 15(1)(m), that satisfies the Administrator that adequate monitoring or management plans are in place for the land concerned which address the impacts on soil quality and soil carbon of the harvesting of the relevant feedstock from that land.\n(3) In the table, “GHG emission saving threshold” means the threshold established in accordance with paragraph 3.\n(4) Wastes of fossil origin meet the sustainable waste management criteria if the renewable transport fuel supplier provides evidence, by reference to the guidance published by the Administrator under article 15(1)(m), that satisfies the Administrator that adequate monitoring or management plans are in place to address the local environmental impacts caused as a result of sourcing or processing the waste.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. inserted (15.12.2011) by The Renewable Transport Fuel Obligations (Amendment) Order 2011 (S.I. 2011/2937), arts. 1, 23"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 2 substituted (1.1.2022) by The Renewable Transport Fuel Obligations (Amendment) Order 2021 (S.I. 2021/1420), arts. 1, 13(4) (with art. 16)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 1 para. 2(1) table inserted (1.7.2024) by The Renewable Transport Fuel Obligations (Amendment) Order 2024 (S.I. 2024/634), arts. 1, 9(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 1 para. 2(1) table substituted (1.7.2024) by The Renewable Transport Fuel Obligations (Amendment) Order 2024 (S.I. 2024/634), arts. 1, 9(2)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 1 para. 2(1) table inserted (1.7.2024) by The Renewable Transport Fuel Obligations (Amendment) Order 2024 (S.I. 2024/634), arts. 1, 9(2)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 2(4) inserted (1.7.2024) by The Renewable Transport Fuel Obligations (Amendment) Order 2024 (S.I. 2024/634), arts. 1, 9(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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