Consultation outcome

Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation: supplier guidance for year 8

• From: Department for Transport
• Published: 11 December 2014
• Last updated: 11 March 2015 — See all updates

This was published under the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

This consultation has concluded

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RTFO guidance consultation for year 8, April 2015 to April 2016: government response

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Detail of outcome

The government response agrees to make a number of amendments to the RTFO guidance to reflect the comments we have received, including:

• further clarification of the definition of biogas
• providing further clarification on the treatment of co-processed hydrotreated vegetable oil

We would like to thank all those who responded to the consultation.

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Original consultation

Summary

Asks for views on proposed updates to the guidance for year 8 of the Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation.

This consultation ran from
9:30am on 11 December 2014 to 11:45pm on 6 February 2015

Consultation description

The Department for Transport is seeking views on proposed amendments to the Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation (RTFO) guidance, to reflect proposed changes to the RTFO legislation.

This consultation also seeks early views on how a number of forthcoming issues should be reflected in the guidance, including:

• the definition of highly biodiverse grasslands
• the new ISAE 3000 standard for verifiers

In addition, this document provides an update on several ongoing issues, including the potential new fuel chains in the Renewable Energy Directive (RED), the definition of severely degraded and heavily contaminated land, and a review of how fuels extracted from a gas grid are treated.

Documents

RTFO guidance consultation for year 8: April 2015 to April 2016

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Published 11 December 2014
Last updated 11 March 2015 + show all updates

1. 11 March 2015

   Government response document to RTFO guidance consultation for year 8, April 2015 to April 2016 publiched.

2. 11 December 2014

   First published.