The Renewables Fuels Agency (RFA) will have a duty to report to Ministers on a quarterly basis on the implementation of the Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation (RTFO). These reports will cover matters such as the amount of greenhouse gas emissions that the policy has saved, the types of biofuel that different transport fuel suppliers have chosen to source, and the origin and sustainability impacts of those biofuels. The first of these reports is due to be submitted in September 2008, by which time the RFA will have gathered data from the first three months of the RTFO’S operation.
In addition, the Government have recently asked the RFA to lead a review of the indirect impacts of biofuel production. The terms of reference for this review are being finalised. Initial analysis is due to be provided to Ministers by the early summer.