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FAQs About Sustainability Reporting

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  1. What forms of evidence are acceptable as proof of the C&S data being passed up the fuel supply chain?

  2. Will the RFA accredit verifiers?

  3. In the annual reports one of the pieces of information to be supplied is how much of the suppliers' feedstock is certified. Do I have to find out exactly what percentage of my suppliers' feedstock is certified?

  4. Is EU-produced feedstock exempt from the social standards?

  5. Can I use a default value for the processing conversion factor (e.g. the conversion for crushing rapeseed to rapeseed oil or converting rapeseed oil to biodiesel) to keep my inventory of C&S data?

  6. When collecting data for crop production (e.g. crop production, nitrogen fertiliser application rate) do I have to use data which relates specifically to individual fields of the same crop on one farm, or can I average the data across the whole crop?

  7. Is there a facility within the RTFO Operating System (ROS) to attach evidence of C&S data?

  8. Which type of chain of custody approach can I use under the RTFO?

  9. Is data swapping allowed in an equivalence trade?

  10. Can I use data from regional surveys of agronomic practice or from another source which isn't collected directly?

FAQs about Procedure

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  1. Who is responsible for independent third party verification?

  2. How will the RFA use the data that is reported?

  3. What will you do if you suspect that the fuel suppliers are not giving accurate information?

  4. When will you publish the results of the suppliers' C&S reports?

  5. What information will you provide about how fuel suppliers are meeting their obligations?

  6. What will happen if certificates are revoked?

  7. When must I register?

FAQs about Qualifying Standards

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  1. Can Certified Sustainable Palm Oil (CSPO) obtained by the tradeable certificate scheme operated by GreenPalm be used to report?

  2. For feedstocks without a standard, can you audit against the RTFO meta-standard but only meet (and therefore claim) a qualifying standard.

  3. Why are no targets set for the RTFO meta-standard level?

  4. Can more standards be benchmarked and if so, how?

  5. Is there anything I can do to meet Qualifying Standard if there is no standard benchmarked or under development?

  6. Is there anything I can do to reach a sustainability level if the standard for my feedstock is still under development?

  7. What can I do if my feedstock standard has been benchmarked but is not a Qualifying Standard?

  8. Can I report a standard that is not a Qualifying Standard?

  9. What do I do if I don't know anything about the fuel?

  10. What is the difference between a Qualifying Standard and the RTFO Sustainable Biofuel Meta-Standard?

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