S.L. 545.36 Art. 1Citation and scope.

(1) The title of these regulations is the Guarantees of Origin of Electricity from High-Efficiency Cogeneration and of Energy from Renewable Energy Sources Regulations.

(2) The scope of these regulations is to establish a regulatory framework for the issuing of guarantees of origin for electricity produced from high-efficiency cogeneration and, or energy produced from renewable energy sources and, for the purposes of providing to final consumers the share or quantity of energy from renewable sources in an energy supplier’s energy mix and in the energy supplied to consumers under contracts marketed with reference to the consumption of energy from renewable sources, and to ensure that the origin of energy produced from renewable energy sources can be guaranteed in accordance with objective, transparent and non-discriminatory criteria. These regulations transpose Article 19 of Directive (EU) 2018/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 December 2018 on the promotion of the use of energy from renewable sources (recast).