ENSE | Biofuels

Activity Description

Department of Biofuels

The BD is responsible for:

Supervise compliance with the rules for promoting the use of biofuels;
Monitoring compliance with the obligations of biofuel producers and developers;
Proceed with the issuance and cancellation of biotickets, under the legal terms;
Take samples of biofuels in the context of quality control programs;
Prepare and carry out monitoring and control actions on biofuels;
Monitor the mandatory national incorporation goals in road fuels, on a quarterly basis.

Every month, ENSE provides the physical percentage of biofuels’ incorporation and TDBs transacted by economic operators.

From 17th september of 2015, ENSE is responsible for the creation and supervision of a market for Biofuel Titles (TdB).

Every month, ENSE makes available the average practiced price (€/m3) of FAME in Portugal and Europe.

From September 2018, ENSE issues the biotickets based on the monthly information sent by ECS (LNEG).

ENSE provides the history of the raw materials used in the production of biodiesel (FAME) by the national producers (2015-2017).