Fuel quality act
The Swedish Fuel Quality Act (Drivmedelslag (2011:319)) came into force 1 May 2011. This act transposes the Fuel Quality Directive (2009/30/EC) in Sweden. It contains rules on which fuel qualities that may be put on the Swedish market.
The Swedish Transport Administration is responsible for the fuel quality aspects of the fuel quality act. There are also requirements on fuel suppliers to disclose environmental information about the fuels they sell at the filling station and on their websites. The Swedish Energy Agency is responsible for enforcing the environmental information aspects.
The Swedish Quality Fuel Act (riksdagen.se, in Swedish)
The ordinance to the Fuel Quality Act (riksdagen.se, in Swedish)
The Swedish act about energy taxes (riksdagen.se, in Swedish)
Fuel suppliers are required to annually report what fuels they put on the market. These reports include information on renewable and non-renewable compenents in transport fuels as well as information on feedstocks, country of origin and life-cycle greenhouse gas emissions. The Swedish Energy Agency control the reports and provide the fuel suppliers with a consolidated table of average share of renewable fuels and greenhouse gas emissions for the reported fuels. This information is then used by the fuel suppliers when presenting the environmental information about the fuels.
The Swedish Energy Agency summarizes the results from the reporting in a yearly report, simply named Drivmedel (‘Fuels’). It is only available in Swedish. In it you can find information about the carbon intensity of different biofuels, the mix of biofuels in Sweden, which raw material is used and where the raw material originates from.
