Course 12 of 20 · Biofuels and SAF Desk Academy

European Compliance Practice

Stage C, Funding and environmental entitlements. Level 6 of 10.

European compliance operating practice: verification, reporting, audit evidence and national implementation differences across European schemes.

127 chapters · 12 modules · every chapter one 8 to 10 minute explainer · builds on: Course 04, Course 06, Course 07, Course 11

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How a chapter is delivered

One chapter is one idea taken to the point of use

Each chapter covers one idea to the point where you can use it, and comes two ways: a narrated explainer, and a deep dive audio discussion of around thirty minutes that works the same material at depth.

Self-paced throughout, and the same chapters can be taught as a cohort. Chapters run in order: each one assumes only what the chapters before it taught, and capability belonging to a later course is named and deferred rather than half-covered.

Curriculum

12 modules · 127 chapters

Open any module for its full chapter list, in teaching order.

M0 What a European Compliance Function Does Ch 1-10
  1. The Compliance Team Between the Molecule and the Member State
  2. From Directive to National Law: The Transposition Layer You Must Read
  3. Four Authorities, One Consignment
  4. The Obligated Party and the Economic Operator Are Not the Same Seat
  5. The Compliance Calendar as an Operating Document
  6. The Word Verified Carries Three Different Meanings
  7. The Evidence Estate a Desk Must Be Able to Produce
  8. Where the Current Setting Is Published and How to Check It
  9. Why Two Member States Reading One Directive Diverge
  10. What This Course Covers and What It Hands On
M1 The Audit You Will Host Ch 11-21
  1. The Certification Audit as a Scheduled Commercial Event
  2. Scoping the Audit: Sites, Activities and Sampling
  3. The Document Request List and How to Answer It
  4. Reasonable and Limited Assurance: What Each Opinion Buys
  5. Materiality in a Sustainability Audit
  6. Walking the Physical Trail With the Auditor
  7. Testing a Claim Backwards From the Declaration
  8. Non-Conformity Grades and What Each Triggers
  9. Writing a Corrective Action Plan a Verifier Will Accept
  10. Surveillance Visits and the Unannounced Audit
  11. Auditor Independence and When You Must Change Body
M2 Audit Evidence Construction Ch 22-32
  1. The Evidence Pack for a Single Consignment
  2. Reconciling Weighbridge, Tank Gauge and Invoice
  3. Evidencing a Waste or Residue Origin
  4. The Self-Declaration and What Stands Behind It
  5. Point of Origin and First Gathering Point Records
  6. Evidencing Actual Values Rather Than Defaults
  7. Keeping a Contemporaneous Record
  8. Retention, Retrieval and the Data Room
  9. Evidence for a Movement That Crossed Three Operators
  10. When a Record Is Missing: Reconstruct or Downgrade
  11. A Worked Evidence Pack Under Challenge
M3 National Register Operations Ch 33-43
  1. What a National Register Actually Holds
  2. Germany: Issuing Sustainability Evidence in Nabisy
  3. The Netherlands: Creating Register Units on Delivery
  4. France: Tracing a Batch Through CarbuRe
  5. Austria: The eNa System and the Generation Before the Union Database
  6. Italy: Certificate Issuance Through the Energy Services Operator
  7. Spain: The Regulator as Certificate Issuer in SICBIOS
  8. Account Structure, User Rights and Segregation of Duties
  9. Correcting a Register Entry After Submission
  10. Reconciling a Register to Your Own Books
  11. What Breaks When a Register Migrates
M4 The Union Database Ch 44-53
  1. Why a Union-Wide Database Was Added
  2. What Gets Entered, and by Whom
  3. Economic Operator Registration and Onboarding
  4. Entering a Transaction Along a Supply Chain
  5. Reconciling the Union Database to a National Register
  6. Scope in Transition: What Is Settled and What Is Not
  7. Data Quality Failures and What They Cost
  8. Confidentiality and Commercially Sensitive Fields
  9. Retrofitting Your Systems to Database Reporting
  10. A Worked Database Entry for a Blended Cargo
M5 Obligation Reporting Across Member States Ch 54-67
  1. The Annual Return as the Compliance Team's Deliverable
  2. Germany: An Obligation Denominated in Greenhouse Gas Reduction
  3. Germany: Third-Party Quota Transfer and the Customs Interface
  4. The Netherlands: Discharging by Cancelling Register Units
  5. France: An Incentive Tax Abated by Verified Energy
  6. Sweden: A Sustainability Decision Granted to the Company
  7. Sweden: Separate Reduction Obligations on Petrol and Diesel
  8. Spain: Reporting Into a Regulator-Run Certificate System
  9. Italy: Earning and Surrendering Consumption Certificates
  10. Poland: The National Indicative Target and Its Alternatives
  11. Ireland: One Agency as Administrator and Stockholder
  12. Finland: Reporting an Advanced Sub-Obligation Separately
  13. Norway: An Obligation Under an Outside-the-Union Transposition
  14. The United Kingdom: Tradable Certificates and a Buy-Out Route
M6 Feedstock Category Administration Ch 68-77
  1. Why Feedstock Category Decides Reporting Value
  2. The Annexed Feedstock Lists and Their Administrative Consequence
  3. Evidencing a Listed-Waste Claim to a Competent Authority
  4. Double Counting as a Reporting Mechanic
  5. Caps and Sub-Targets: Finding the Setting That Applies to You
  6. When a Verifier Disagrees With Your Classification
  7. Getting a Feedstock Added to a National Positive List
  8. Intermediate and Sequential Crop Evidence
  9. The Low Indirect Land Use Change Audit
  10. Recycled Carbon Fuels and Non-Biological Renewable Fuels in a Return
M7 Aviation Compliance Reporting Ch 78-87
  1. The Aviation Fuel Supplier's Reporting Obligation
  2. Who Counts as an Aviation Fuel Supplier at a Union Airport
  3. Reporting Aviation Fuel Into the Union Database
  4. The Flexibility Mechanism and Its Reporting Consequence
  5. The Aircraft Operator's Report and Where It Meets Yours
  6. Competent Authorities and National Penalty Design in Aviation
  7. Evidencing a Synthetic Aviation Fuel Sub-Duty
  8. Evidence for Zero-Rating a Biofuel in the Aviation Allowance Scheme
  9. The United Kingdom Aviation Mandate as a Separate Obligation
  10. Reconciling an Airport Report to Desk Records
M8 Maritime Compliance Reporting Ch 88-96
  1. The Marine Fuel Supplier Inside a Vessel's Obligation
  2. The Bunker Delivery Note as Compliance Evidence
  3. What a Maritime Verifier Checks in a Biofuel Bunkering
  4. Pooling and the Evidence a Supplier Must Hand Over
  5. Reporting Through the Union Shipping Compliance System
  6. Evidence for Zero-Rating Bio-Bunkers in the Maritime Allowance Scheme
  7. When a Shore Scheme and a Marine Scheme Both Claim a Tonne
  8. National Enforcement at the Bunker Port
  9. A Worked Bio-Bunker Evidence Chain
M9 Non-Conformity, Invalidation and Remediation Ch 97-106
  1. Certificate Suspension and the Trading Day After
  2. Withdrawal of a Voluntary Scheme's Recognition
  3. Retroactive Invalidation of Issued Evidence
  4. The Contractual Remedy When Evidence Fails
  5. Self-Reporting an Error to a Competent Authority
  6. Penalty Design Across Member States
  7. Buy-Out, Carry-Over and Make-Good Routes
  8. Re-Verification After a Finding
  9. The Appeal Route and Its Timetable
  10. What Cannot Be Fixed Once a Return Is Filed
M10 One Evidence Estate, Several Member States Ch 107-116
  1. One Book, Several Transpositions
  2. Designing to the Strictest Requirement and What It Costs
  3. Three Named Divergences That Resist Harmonisation
  4. Moving a Consignment Between Two National Systems
  5. The Compliance Position Report a Trading Desk Needs
  6. Segregation Between Trading and Reporting
  7. Staffing, Escalation and the Named Responsible Person
  8. The ETRM Interface and the Compliance Sub-Ledger
  9. Training Operations to Produce Evidence
  10. Auditing Your Own Compliance Function
M11 A Worked Compliance Year and the Limits Ch 117-127
  1. The Book We Will Report, Part One: Obligations and Counterparties
  2. The Book We Will Report, Part Two: The Opening Evidence Inventory
  3. Quarter One: A Supplier Certificate Is Suspended
  4. Quarter Two: One Classification Challenged in Two Countries
  5. Quarter Three: An Unannounced Visit and a Missing Record
  6. Year End: Building Three National Returns From One Ledger
  7. Year End: The Verifier's Findings and the Response
  8. Filing, Then Correcting a Filed Return
  9. What the Year Showed About the Evidence Estate
  10. Where This Material Simplifies on Purpose
  11. What European Compliance Practice Cannot Tell You

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