S.L. 545.37 ст. 2Interpretation. Cap. 545. S.L. 545.35. Cap. 545.

(1) Unless otherwise required under these regulations, the definitions prescribed under the Regulator for Energy and Water

Services Act, and 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 laid down in Part C of the First Schedule or 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 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;

*These regulations have been repealed by Legal Notice 95 of 2026. (SUSTAINABILITY CRITERIA)

"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);

"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 own use and not for wholesale or retail purposes;

"energy supplier" means an authorised supplier wholesaling or retailing energy or products thereof;

"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;

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

"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 saving for a particular biofuel, bioliquid or biomass fuel production pathway which is representative of the Union consumption.