Energy (Biofuel Obligation and Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2010. Country/Territory Ireland Document type Legislation Date 2010 (2019) Source FAO, FAOLEX Subject Energy Keyword Basic legislation Biofuel Bioenergy Energy conservation/energy production Renewable energy Pollution control Royalties/fees Geographical area Atlantic Ocean Islands, Europe, Europe and Central Asia, European Union Countries, North Atlantic, North-East Atlantic, Northern Europe Abstract This Act is aimed to further promote the use of biofuel in the state and for that purpose to provide for the increased supply of biofuel in the state by means of a biofuel obligation requiring that a specified amount of road transport fuel is biofuel; to impose a levy on relevant disposals of biofuel; to confer additional functions on the national oil reserves agency to administer the biofuel obligation; to give effect to certain provisions of Directive 2009/28/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 April 2009 on the promotion of the use of energy from renewable sources and amending and subsequently repealing Directives 2001/77/EC and 2003/30/EC; for those and other purposes to amend and extend the National Oil Reserves Agency Act 2007; to amend the Fuels (control of supplies) Act 1971, the Fuels (control of supplies) Act 1982, the Electricity regulation Act 1999 and the Energy (miscellaneous provisions) Act 2006 and to provide for related matters. Full text English Website revisedacts.lawreform.ie