The ‘Red Tractor Farm Assurance Combinable Crops & Sugar Beet’ voluntary scheme (‘the scheme’), submitted for recognition to the Commission on 27 September 2017, demonstrates that consignments of cereals, oil seeds and sugar beet produced in accordance with the standards for the production of biofuels and bioliquids set in the scheme comply with the sustainability criteria laid down in Article 7b(3), (4) and (5) of Directive 98/70/EC and Article 17(3), (4) and (5) of Directive 2009/28/EC.

The scheme also contains accurate data for the purposes of Article 17(2) of Directive 2009/28/EC and Article 7b(2) of Directive 98/70/EC in as far as it concerns annualised emissions from carbon stock changes caused by land-use change (e _l ) referred to in point 1 of part C of Annex IV of Directive 98/70/EC and point 1 of part C of Annex V of Directive 2009/28/EC, which it demonstrates to be equal to zero.