S.L. 545.45 Art. 2Interpretation.   Cap. 545. S.L. 545.43. Cap. 545.

(1) Unless otherwise required under these regulations, the terms and words defined in the Regulator for Energy and Water

Services Act and in the Promotion of Energy from Renewable Sources Regulations shall apply.

(2) For the purposes of these regulations, and unless the context otherwise requires:

"Act" means the Regulator for Energy and Water

Services Act;

"actual value" means the greenhouse gas emissions saving for some or all of the steps of a specific biofuel, bioliquid or biomass fuel production process, calculated in accordance with the methodology established in Part C of the First Schedule or in Part B of the Second Schedule;

"agricultural, aquaculture, fisheries and forestry residues" means residues that are directly generated by agriculture, aquaculture, fisheries and forestry and that do not include residues from related industries or processing;

"agricultural biomass" means biomass produced from agriculture;

"biowaste" means biodegradable garden and park waste, food and kitchen waste from households, restaurants, caterers (SUSTAINABILITY CRITERIA)

and retail premises and comparable waste from food processing plants;

"default value" means a value derived from a typical value by the application of pre-determined factors and that may in circumstances specified in these regulations, be used in place of an actual value;

"Directive" means 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), as amended from time to time;

"economic operator" means a producer of raw material, a collector of waste and residues, an operator of installations processing raw material into final fuels or intermediate products, an operator of installations producing energy (electricity, heating or cooling) or any other operator, including of storage facilities or traders that are in physical possession of raw material or fuels, provided that they process information on the sustainability and greenhouse gas emissions saving characteristics of those raw materials or fuels;

"energy" means all forms of available energy, including electricity, heating, cooling, liquefied petroleum gas, any fuel for heating and cooling, coal and transport fuels;

"energy content" means the lower calorific value of fuel;

"energy consumer" means a natural or legal person who consumes or purchases energy for their own use and not for wholesale or retail purposes;

"forest biomass" means biomass produced from forestry;

"forest regeneration" means the re-establishment of a forest stand by natural or artificial means following the removal of the previous stand by felling or as a result of natural causes, including fire or storm;

"Minister" means the Minister responsible for energy services;

"Regulation (EU) 2018/841" means Regulation (EU) 2018/841 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 30 May 2018 on the inclusion of greenhouse gas emissions and removals from land use, land use change and forestry in the 2030 climate and energy framework, and amending Regulation

(EU) No 525/2013 and Decision No 529/2013/EU;

"Regulator" means the Regulator for Energy and Water Services as established by article 3 of the Act;

"plantation forest" means a planted forest that is intensively managed and satisfies, at planting and stand maturity, all the following criteria:

(a) one (1) or two (2) species, even age class, and regular spacing;

(b) it includes short rotation plantations for wood, fibre and energy, and excludes forests planted for protection or ecosystem restoration, as well as forests established through planting or seeding, which at stand maturity resemble or will resemble naturally regenerating forests;

"sourcing area" means the geographically defined area from which the forest biomass feedstock is sourced, from which reliable and independent information is available and where conditions are sufficiently homogeneous to evaluate the risk of the sustainability and legality characteristics of the forest biomass;

"typical value" means an estimate of the greenhouse gas emissions and greenhouse gas emissions savings for a particular biofuel, bioliquid or biomass fuel production pathway which is representative of the Union consumption;

"Union database" means the database established by the European Commission to enable the tracing of liquid and gaseous renewable fuels and recycled carbon fuels.