UK Statutory Instrument
2024
United Kingdom
The Renewable Transport Fuel Obligations (Sustainable Aviation Fuel) Order 2024
At a glance
What's here
5 compliance obligations
Who this Act binds
Plus 1 non-business duty on Crown ministers, regulators, local authorities or tribunals — shown collapsed under each section below.
What this Act requires
Sections that create concrete duties on businesses or carry penalties. Procedural and definitional sections are folded into the “Browse other sections” expander at the bottom of each group. Click any section title to read the source text on legislation.gov.uk.
Schedules
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To the extent that relevant sustainable aviation fuel was produced...
A feedstock meets the soil carbon criteria if the supplier...
A waste of fossil origin meets the sustainable waste management...
Subject to paragraph 6, an amount of sustainable aviation fuel...
Where the sustainable aviation fuel is produced partly from raw...
The minimum GHG emissions saving from the use of an...
A relevant feedstock meets the land criteria if the supplier...
Land with a high biodiversity value that had one of...
Subject to paragraph 4, land with high-carbon stock that had...
Paragraph 3 does not apply if, at the time the...
Land that was peatland at any time in January 2008,...
In this Schedule— “forest regeneration” means the re-establishment of a...
Forest biomass meets the forest criteria if the supplier provides...
Subject to paragraph 4, the country in which the forest...
Where evidence is not available to demonstrate that the legal...
Subject to paragraph 6, the country or regional economic integration...
Where evidence is not available to demonstrate that the requirement...
Duty to require information from suppliers
- Provide information and evidence about aviation fuel supplies to the Administrator
Power to require information
- Provide information and evidence to the Administrator when requested
Mass balance system
- Use a mass balance system to track and report fuel sustainability characteristics
Application for SAF certificates
- Apply for SAF certificates and provide evidence by 12th May
Revocation of a SAF certificate
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Administrator must follow due process before revoking a SAF certificate Statutory regulator
Browse 28 other sections — procedural / definitional / commencement
Citation, commencement and extent
Interpretation
The SAF obligation
Determination of amounts of sustainable aviation fuel
The Administrator
Establishment of SAF accounts
Powers of the Administrator to require further information or evidence
Closure of accounts
Managing Accounts
Processing of information and evidence
Other duties imposed and powers conferred on the Administrator
Eligibility of feedstock produced from wastes of fossil origin
Verifier’s assurance procedures, reports and declarations
Issue of SAF certificates
Transfer of SAF certificates
Payments
Segregated oils and fats
Use of SAF certificates in later obligations periods
Civil Penalties
Objections to civil penalties
Introductory
Amendment of article 2
Amendment of article 3
Amendment of article 4
Amendment of article 5
Amendment of article 16
Amendment of article 17
Review
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