BS EN 16214-3:2012+A1:2017

This standard BS EN 16214-3:2012+A1:2017 Sustainability criteria for the production of biofuels and bioliquids for energy applications. Principles, criteria, indicators and verifiers is classified in these ICS categories:

• 75.160.20 Liquid fuels
• 01.040.75 Petroleum and related technologies (Vocabularies)
• 27.190 Biological sources and alternative sources of energy

This European Standard only defines procedures, criteria and indicators to provide the required evidence for: - production of raw material in areas for nature protection purposes; - harvesting of raw material from non-natural highly biodiverse grasslands; and - cultivation and harvesting on peatland. This European Standard specifies requirements relevant for the provision of evidence by economic operators that the production, cultivation and harvesting of raw materials is in accordance with legal or other requirements concerning the areas mentioned above. This European Standard is applicable to production, cultivation and harvesting of biomass for biofuels and bioliquids production. NOTE At several occasions in the text the plural form "purposes" is used, but in practice there can be just one nature protection or harvesting of raw material purpose.