The Renewable Fuels Agency (RFA), a Government Non-Departmental Public Body (NDPB), is an independent regulator. It was established on 26 October 2007 with the Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation (RTFO) Order. The RTFO applies across the whole of the UK. Refiners, importers and any others who supply more than 450,000 litres of fossil-based road transport fuel annually to the UK market are obligated by it. The initial requirement is for 2.5% of the fuel supplied for road transport in 2008-9 to be biofuel. The Renewable Fuels Agency (RFA) requires biofuel suppliers to submit reports on both the net greenhouse gas savings and the sustainability of the biofuels they supply. This reporting framework is intended to be a ’stepping-stone’ towards a mandatory assurance scheme proposed by Government to commence in 2010 and 2011. The agency makes its first quarterly report on progress towards the Government’s biofuel targets in the Autumn. Professor Ed Gallagher is Chair of the RFA. He was previously the Chief Executive of the Environment Agency and National Rivers Authority, as well as the Manufacturing Director of Amersham International and the Director of Marketing and Product Development at Black and Decker. He has been the Chair of Energywatch since 2004, and was Governor and then Chair of Middlesex University from 1994-2004.

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