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The Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials (RSB) and the 2BS Association (2BS) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to scale trusted sustainability certification across aviation and materials supply chains. This collaboration is part of the RSB Impact Alliance project. The association of both organisations through the RSB Impact Alliance aims to support farmers, brands and industrial end-users to develop consistent and streamlined certification approaches for entire supply chains, covering different feedstocks and markets. Together, RSB and 2BS envision a simplified certification process for operators to scale sustainability performance and the transition to net zero. As part of the MoU, 2BS will develop guidelines for an additional voluntary “RSB module”. This module will be part of the 2BS system, and it

In response to the European biodiesel market being flooded with vast quantities of Chinese biodiesel with partially doubtful declarations of origin and feedstock, the voluntary schemes ISCC, 2BS, KZR INiG, RSB and REDcert have agreed to improve their already established communication channels for exchanging certification-related information. As all schemes already provide a publicly available and up-to-date list of certificates indicating the status and scope of an economic operator’s certification – including the certification history under the particular scheme – there will be now a systematic and immediate exchange of suspended and withdrawn certificates between those schemes. The sharing of this information will contribute to the common goal of preventing economic operators from ‘scheme hopping’ as a result of suspended or

ucrop.it is endorsed by 2BS as an official platform in Latin America to scale the criteria of the 2BSvs certification. Buenos Aires, February 2023. ucrop.it was recognized by 2BS as an official platform in LATAM for Landscape Sustainability Verification. The ucrop.it tool “Sustainable Landscape Verification” allows knowing if a field is eligible as a sustainable origin of biomass according to the requirement of certain sustainable standards aligned with the demands of international markets. The algorithm was endorsed by the 2BS Association, to scale these criteria of the 2BSvs certification. The voluntary scheme 2BSvs is recognized by the European Commission under the Directive (EU) 2018/2001 (RED II). This directive settles the sustainability requirements for the supply chain of bioliquids, biofuels and

We are pleased to inform about the publication in the Official Journal of the European Union of Implementing Regulation 2022/996 dated June 27, 2022. The document can be downloaded here. This regulation specifies the rules for implementing the RED II directive. The published text comes into force on June 30, 2022. It provides to be fully implemented within 18 months after publication. 2BS and its Steering Committee are preparing to update the standards and procedures applicable to 2BS certification. We will come back to you, at the appropriate time, and inform about the changes to be taken into account and their date of application. In the meantime, we would like to draw your attention about the following important elements: As

The recognition of the 2BSvs Voluntary Scheme by the European Commission has been officially renewed on 8 April 2022. The publication of the implementing decision in the Official Journal of the European Union recognises 2BSvs for the whole field of application of RED II, namely: biofuels, bioliquids, biomass fuels, non-organic renewable liquid and gaseous fuels, as well as recycled carbon fuels. This recognition therefore also includes the sector of methanisation. The text for the Official Journal is hereby attached. In addition, the delegated acts were voted on 10 March 2022. We are awaiting their publication and the details regarding their implementation from the European Commission. We will get back to you as soon as they are published. We will also

We are aware that the terms of the transition from the REDI Directive to the RED II Directive decided by the European Commission may have given rise to many interpretations on the market. The policy of 2BS and its steering committee is to ensure that the 2BS certification scheme remains the only reflection of regulatory constraints without overbidding. With this in mind, we organize factual communication in order not to precede regulatory requirements. On July 15, 2021, we drew your attention to the consultation of the implementing regulations, the consultation of which has been closed since 07/27/2021. 2BS and some of its members provided comments and raised questions during this consultation. We invite you to read all comments made on

We, the undersigned Voluntary Schemes would like to clarify the following: Recognition under RED II: In a letter dated 10th July 2021, the European Commission has informed Member States that some voluntary schemes have successfully passed the preliminary assessment for the formal recognition under RED II (i.e. are technically compliant with RED II). The following schemes are considered at this stage as having closed the outstanding issues in their preliminary assessment reports: 2BSvs, Better Biomass, Bonsucro EU, ISCC EU, KZR INiG, REDcert, Red Tractor, RSB EU RED, RTRS EU RED, SQC, TASCC, UFAS, SURE. Application of RED II: The European Commission has requested the Voluntary Schemes to apply the RED II rules as of 1st July 2021 (the transposition date

As you may be aware, 2BS is currently in the recognition process by the European Commission as a voluntary scheme for the Directive RED II (Renewable Energy Directive (EU) 2018/2001). We wish to update our customers regarding to the current stage of this transition between RED I and RED II and to share with you the possible evolutions expected in the coming weeks. Indeed, the European Commission has confirmed that the date of the transposition of the RED II will be 30th June 2021 as provided in the Directive RED II. Therefore, the European Commission expects that the voluntary schemes will apply RED II rules as of 1st July 1, 2021. This means that the audits of the economic operators

Operators in European countries that have not forwarded the NUTS 2 values in the new units (grCO2eq / Kg of dry matter) to the European Commission have three alternatives for drafting the sustainability claims, for managing and communicating GHG emissions in the supply chain for biofuels. 1 – Use the total default value of the biofuel production pathway in grCO2 /MJ as per Annex V, sections A and B. To do this, auditors must check the correct use of values, and the sustainability claim statement, “Use of the total default values”, in the supply chain. 2 – Use the disaggregated default values in grCO2eq/ MJ of biofuel, as per Annex V, Tables D and E. Sustainability declarations of certified operators

As from 1 August 2017, the unit of transmission of NUTS 2 * emissions in the biofuel chain of custody must be made exclusively in gr CO2 / dry-kg of feedstock. Operators can use the values their Member State has passed on to the European Commission. The NUTS 2 values in the new unit for the European Member States, are published on the Commission’s website. This new GHG requirements resulting from EC note (BK/abd/ener.c.1(2015)4507918) are obligatory to be implemented for all the systems owner recognised by EC after the July 2016.

The implementing decision (EU) 2016:1433 of the Commission, relating to the recognition of the 2BS voluntary scheme for the establishment of conformity with the sustainability criteria of the directives 98/70/EC and 2009/28/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council, is published in the Official Journal of the European Union dated 26th of August 2016 – http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/FR/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32016D1433 Press release

Pending renewal of the recognition of voluntary schemes which the end date expires, the European Commission issued a letter on transitional measures to be applied. Please find the transitional measures in this document.