Germany's Federal Office for Agriculture and Food (BLE), which is in charge of the country's sustainable biomass system Nabisy, updated its list of biomass codes for the domestic biofuels sector on 4 July.
The codes 3826-w020305-01 and 15162-w020305-01 — which describe advanced biodiesel and hydroteated vegetable oil (HVO) from sludges of on-site effluent treatment in the preparation and processing of fruit, vegetables and cereals and the content of grease traps — have been replaced.
The new codes, 3826-w020305-91 and 15162-w020305-91, label biodiesel and HVO from waste oils, fats or fatty acids that have been separated from the contents of grease traps, for example in restaurants, by specialised processing companies and must be re-esterified before processing into biofuel. They do not include waste oils, fats or fatty acids from sewage systems.
The BLE had added the feedstock brown grease — floatable spent fats, oils or greases, settled solids and associated waste water — to its Nabisy feedstock list in January but removed it a week later. The addition of brown grease to Germany's list of advanced feedstocks created uncertainty in European biofuels markets as it came just weeks after the Netherlands classified brown grease as a feedstock in Annex IX Part B of the EU's Renewable Energy Directive (RED II), rather than an Annex IX Part A — or advanced — feedstock.
