The Sustainable Biomass Program (SBP) has today published the final REDIII Level A Risk Assessments for Canada Forest (covering provinces AB, BC, NB, NS, QC), Denmark Forest, Estonia Forest, Latvia Forest, Lithuania Forest, and Vietnam Forest. The final REDIII Level A Risk Assessments for US National Forest and US Private Forest were published on 7 November and 19 December respectively.
You can access the final REDIII Level A Risk Assessments here.
With these publications, SBP has completed REDIII Level A Risk Assessments for seven of the regions covered by our Regional Risk Assessments, demonstrating our proactive approach in supporting Biomass Producers’ compliance with the EU’s updated Renewable Energy Directive (EU/2023/2413) (REDIII).
Specifically, the REDIII Level A Risk Assessments assist in establishing management systems that meet the REDIII sustainability criteria. As an independent document, the REDIII Level A Risk Assessment replaces Annex 6 (REDII Level A Risk Assessment) in the SBP-endorsed Regional Risk Assessments for Denmark, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania Forest, and in the Interim Regional Risk Assessments for Canada Forest (provinces AB, BC, NB, NS, QC), and Vietnam Forest.
Several risk designations included in the draft documents have changed in the final versions. Please review the Summary of Changes section in each Risk Assessment to identify these updates. Certificate Holders have six months to update their Supply Base Evaluations accordingly.
