Energy (Biofuel Obligation and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2010
Public bill · Government · Presented
Requires oil companies and large fuel users to ensure that at least 4.166% of the road fuel they sell or use is biofuel, with tradable certificates, penalties for shortfalls and a levy on biofuel suppliers to fund administration. It gives the National Oil Reserves Agency responsibility for monitoring the scheme, checking sustainability and enforcing compliance, helping increase renewable energy use in transport. It also strengthens fuel-offence penalties and extends gas-safety regulation to liquefied petroleum gas installers and equipment.
Formal long title
Bill entitled an Act to further promote the use of biofuel in the State and for that purpose to provide for the increased supply of biofuel in the State by means of a biofuel obligation requiring that a specified amount of road transport fuel is biofuel; to impose a levy on relevant disposals of biofuel; to confer additional functions on the National Oil Reserves Agency to administer the biofuel obligation; to give effect to certain provisions of Directive 2009/28/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 April 2009 on the promotion of the use of energy from renewable sources and amending and subsequently repealing Directives 2001/77/EC and 2003/30/EC; to amend and extend the National Oil Reserves Agency Act 2007; to amend the Fuels (Control of Supplies) Act 1971, the Electricity Regulation Act 1999 and the Energy (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2006 and to provide for related matters
Last updated 12 April 2018
- Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources Primary
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- Energy (Biofuel Obligation and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2010: Committee Stage (Resumed). Seanad
- Energy (Biofuel Obligation and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2010: Committee Stage. Seanad
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- Energy (Biofuel Obligation and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2010: Second Stage. Seanad
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- As passed by Dáil Éireann
- As amended in Committee/Select Committee [Dáil Éireann]
- Energy (Biofuel Obligation and Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2010
- An tAcht Fuinnimh (Oibleagáid Bhithbhreosla agus Forálacha Ilghnéitheacha), 2010
- As passed by Seanad Éireann
- As amended in Committee [Seanad Éireann]
- As Initiated