Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2022/1656 of 26 September 2022 on recognition of the Austrian agricultural certification scheme (AACS) for demonstrating compliance with the requirements set in Directive (EU) 2018/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council for biofuels, bioliquids, biomass fuels, renewable liquid and gaseous fuels of non-biological origin and recycled carbon fuels (Text with EEA relevance)

• CELEX: Implementing Decision (EU) 2022/1656
• Articles: 4

Article 1

The Austrian agricultural certification scheme (‘the scheme’), submitted for recognition to the Commission on 7 March 2022, demonstrates the following, for the fuels audited under the scheme:

(a)

compliance of the consignments of biofuels, bioliquids and biomass fuels with the sustainability criteria laid down in Article 29(2) to (5) and (10) of Directive (EU) 2018/2001;

(b)

economic operators’ compliance with the obligation to enter accurate information into the Union or national database on renewable fuels and recycled carbon fuels used in transport in accordance with Article 28(4) of Directive (EU) 2018/2001.

The scheme also contains accurate data on greenhouse gas emission savings for the purpose of Article 29(10) of Directive (EU) 2018/2001 in that it ensures that all relevant information from economic operators upstream in the chain of custody is transferred to economic operators downstream in the chain of custody.

Article 2

This Decision shall be valid for a period of 5 years from the day of its entry into force.

Where the content of the scheme, as submitted for recognition to the Commission on 7 March 2022, change in a way that might affect the grounds of this Decision, such changes shall be notified to the Commission without delay.

The Commission shall assess the notified changes with a view to establishing whether the scheme still adequately covers assurance to the sustainability criteria for which it is recognised.

Article 3

The Commission may repeal this Decision in certain circumstance, including:

(a)

if it has been clearly demonstrated that the scheme has not implemented elements considered to be important for this Decision or has stopped implementing them in a way that constitutes a severe and structural breach;

(b)

if the scheme fails to submit annual reports to the Commission, as required by Article 30(5) of Directive (EU) 2018/2001; or

(c)

if the scheme fails to meet independent auditing standards or other requirements specified in implementing acts referred to in Article 30(8) of Directive (EU) 2018/2001 or fails to implement improvements to other elements of the scheme considered to be important for continued recognition.

Article 4

This Decision shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union .