National Oil Reserves Agency Act 2007

F84[Prohibition on certification of supply of certain biofuels and biogas

44DA

44DA. (1) Subject to subsection (2), a renewable transport fuel obligation account holder shall not, during the period beginning on 31 December 2023 and ending on 31 December 2030, be awarded a certificate under section 44G in respect of any supply by that account holder of biofuels and biogas produced from high ILUC-risk feedstock.

(2) Where a renewable transport fuel obligation account holder supplied, during the period beginning on 1 January 2019 and ending on 31 December 2019, certified biofuels and biogas produced from high ILUC-risk feedstock, that account holder may be awarded a certificate in accordance with section 44G in respect of supply during a relevant period by it of such biofuels and biogas that amounts, in total, to no greater than 90 per cent of the total supply of such biofuels and biogas by it during the period beginning on 1 January 2019 and ending on 31 December 2019.

(3) In this section, "relevant period" means

(a) the period beginning on 31 December 2023 and ending on 31 December 2024, and

(b) each period of 12 months thereafter that occurs during the period beginning on 1 January 2025 and ending on 31 December 2030.]

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F84

Inserted (31.12.2023) by European Union (Renewable Energy) Regulations 2023 (S.I. No. 693 of 2023), art. 3(e), in effect as per art. 2(2).