The RED II includes EU bioenergy sustainability criteria covering biofuels, bioliquids, and biomass fuels as well as criteria for emissions savings and production of renewable fuels on non-biological origin and recycled carbon fuels. The objective of the contract is to provide technical assistance for the implementation of the certification framework for EU sustainability criteria for all these fuels in the period post-2022, considering also the new adopted implementing rules. The contract will focus on the assessment of the performance of voluntary and national certification schemes for all the types of renewable and low carbon fuels and the implementation of relevant methodologies with the objective to further improve the methodology of such assessment and develop new approaches for sustainability certification. It will also cover aspects of traceability of renewable energy and will assess implementation of reporting obligations of certification schemes and EU Member States.

Single FWC to provide technical assistance for the implementation of the revised EU sustainability criteria for the period post-2020 as per the revision of the renewable energy Directive 2018/2001/EC.