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  • REDcert
    REDcert

    We offer you certification schemes for sustainable biomass, biofuels and bioliquids as well as sustainable agricultural raw materials for use in the food and feed industry as well as biomass for material purposes bzw. material purposes for the chemical industry.

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  • REDcert-EU and REDcert-DE
    REDcert-EU and REDcert-DE

    With the REDcert-DE and REDcert-EU certification schemes, you have unrestricted access to the German and European markets for sustainable biomass, biofuels and bioliquids.

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  • REDcert²
    REDcert²

    REDcert² offers you reliable and efficient sustainability certification of material purposes in the chemical industry.

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  • Bernhard Krüsken

    Secretary General of the German Farmers' Association (Deutscher Bauernverband e.V.)

    “The industry-driven REDcert scheme has succeeded in enabling farmers to provide the legally required proof of sustainability for their crops in the field of bioenergy in a practical way with little red tape. REDcert also offers solutions for the verification of sustainability requirements in the food chain, thus facilitating market access for our farmers.”

     

     

     

  • Horst Seide

    President of the German Biogas Association

    “REDcert is already a reliable partner for the certification of sustainable biomethane in the fuel sector. Starting in 2021, biogas facilities that generate electricity and heat must also be certified. The biogas industry is striving to meet this challenge by working with REDcert to develop a way to practically implement the EU requirements.”

  • Lieven Flamée

    QSE Director of Beaulieu International Group, BU Engineered Products

    “As leading manufacturer of yarns for contract, automotive and residential carpet applications, we really welcome the right and clear visibility the REDcert platform is offering on our biomass balanced yarns towards our industry partners. We are committed to grow in sustainability, and therefor value this certification as ground-breaking for any product derived from biomass. Beaulieu International Group was the first yarns producer getting a certificate for its EqoBalance, according to the new standard REDcert² for the chemical industry. The chemical industry is increasingly relying on the use of sustainably produced and certified biomass to replace fossil-based raw materials.”

     

     

     

     

  • Dr. Christian Krüger

    Corporate Sustainability

    "At BASF, we combine economic success with environmental protection and social responsibility. The various REDcert certifications offer us as a globally operating chemical company the opportunity to boost the credibility of our mass-balanced products for our customers and stakeholders. The REDcert standards are applicable to all of our sites. BASF was the first company in the world to have a product successfully audited for compliance with the new REDcert2 standard for the chemical industry in 2018 and all biomass-balanced products are now certified under this standard. These products are used today in many different industrial sectors (e.g. packaging, automotive, construction). In addition, we also use the REDcert EU scheme for biomass-balanced products intended for the biofuel sector."

News

REDcert training courses – new dates

You can find the current REDcert training courses here.

REDcert² for the chemical industry - Auditor Training 2025

REDcert offers new training on 13th/14th of August 2025 for his auditors with the topic "REDcert² - certification of sustainable material flows in the chemical industry".

Further information are published on our website under trainings.

 

New BLE - Trainings and changes in the area of heat: Fuel quantity (delivery state)

The Federal Office fror Agriculture and Food (BLE) will be offering online training courses for various Nabisy users on the following dates.

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What is the Union database (UDB)?

The Union Database (UDB) is a database pursuant to Article 28(2) and (4) of Directive (EU) 2018/2001 (RED II). It is used for the traceability of gaseous and liquid fuels. The aim of the UDB is to avoid double counting and to minimise the risk of irregularities and fraud. The UDB records sustainability certificates for biofuels and the corresponding raw materials.

 

Avenues

Direct access to the UDB - for registered users and for testing purposes.

Live Version

Trial

 

FAQs

We are pleased  to present our Union Database (UDB) FAQs! These provide comprehensive information on topics such as how the UDB works, registration and access, initial setup, and transactions and certificates. Visit our FAQ page.

 

Instructions

Step-by-step help for the efficient use of the Union Database.

 

Where can I find training courses on the UDB?

Stay up to date with training courses offered by REDcert and the EU Commission.

Training dates of REDcert

Recording of training courses of the EU Commission

Demo videos of the UDB in German

01_Wirtschaftsbeteiligte main user - creation of a material processing in the UDB

02_Wirtschaftsbeteiligte Main User - Creation of Transactions at the Place of Origin according to Part B

03_Wirtschaftsbeteiligte Main User - Creating a Seller Transaction

04_Wirtschaftsbeteiligte Main User - Acceptance of a Transaction by the Buyer

05_Wirtschaftsbeteiligte Primary User - Buyer Declining a Transaction

06_Wirtschaftsbeteiligte Main User - Creating a Buyer Transaction in the Place of Origin

07_Wirtschaftsbeteiligte User - Creating Initial Inventories

08_Wirtschaftsbeteiligte User - Creation of procurement sources with/without identification number

  

Information from REDcert on the subject of UDB:

Info-Mail 13th of May 2025

Info-Mail from 8th of December 2023

Info-Mail from 18th of December 2023

Info-Mail from 1st of June 2024

Info-Mail from 25th of September 2024

Info-Mail from 4th of October 2024

 

What is the schedule of the UDB?

The EU Commission is pursuing an ambitious timeline that includes a functional UDB by the end of 2023 that can be used to track all transactions of sustainable biomass and biofuels.

The following overview illustrates the historical timeline of the project (current dates on the part of the UDB can be found above):

Historical timeline of the UDB

Supply chain

Timeframe/Timing

Start of the UDB

Liquid

21.11.2024(in accordance with RED III; Art. 31 a)

Start of the UDB

Gas

in the course of Q1 2024

Start of the UDB

Liquid

15.01.2024*

(Initial stock levels can be entered from 01.01.2024)

Start: Registration of the flow of goods (also online

Gas

02.10.2023

Start: Registration of flows of goods (internal to the system)

Gas

01.07.2023

Start: Registration of flows of goods

Liquid

03.04.2023

Start: Gas Value Chain - Initial Registration of Stocks

Gas

03.04.2023

Target date: Initial registration of gas value chain inventories

Gas

01.04.2023

Target date: Initial registration of stocks in the liquid fuel value chain

Liquid

31.03.2023

Start: Value chain for liquid fuels - initial registration of inventories

Liquid

01.03.2023

Start: Gas - Invitation of distribution system operators, transmission system operators, suppliers to UDB

Gas

06.02.2023

Start: Invitation VS, EO, Service Provider UDB

All

16.01.2023

Data harmonization with regard to the market

All

12.12.2022

Release/start of communication with VS/MS/Markt

All

21.11.2022

* The Union database application will be available to all successfully registered economic operators to register transactions in the liquid fuel supply chain from 15 January 2024.

  • Regarding the official start date of the UDB and several requests from stakeholders, we have decided to open the application on 15 January 2024 to allow for a smoother start and better support for economic operators.
  • The initial registration of stocks is possible for 1 January 2024, i.e. the stocks that are in stock/in storage by the certified economic operators from the beginning of 2024. This feature will be available in the course of 2024 for those economic operators who will be invited to the UDB in the later part of 2024 to book the transactions from 1 January 2024, provided that they are certified from that date. Economic operators should ensure that the amounts recorded can be proven to the auditor during the neutral control/audit.
  • Transactions can be registered retroactively from January 1, 2024 on the basis of the first stock levels or the transactions entered into by suppliers after January 1, 2024.

 

Legal basis of the Union Biofuels Database (UDB):

Article 28 (2) of Directive (EU) 2018/2001, the so-called RED II, provides for the introduction of a uniform and binding database at European level, in which all sustainability certificates for biofuels in the transport sector and the corresponding raw materials are recorded. In detail, this means:

'2. The Commission shall ensure that a Union database is set up to enable the traceability of liquid and gaseous fuels for transport that may be counted against the meter referred to in Article 27(1)(b) or taken into account for the purposes of the first subparagraph of Article 29(1). Member States shall require the economic operators concerned to provide information in this database on the transactions carried out and the sustainability characteristics of those fuels, including their life-cycle greenhouse gas emissions, from the place of production to the fuel supplier placing them on the market. Member States may set up a national database linked to the Union database, ensuring that data entered are immediately transferred between databases. The information necessary to verify compliance with the requirements referred to in the first and fourth subparagraphs of Article 25(1) shall be entered by fuel suppliers in the relevant database.'

If you have any other specific questions about the UDB, you can direct them to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. . We ask for your understanding that we cannot answer every question directly in view of the complexity of the topic and numerous open topics to be clarified with the UDB. However, we will try to clarify this as soon as possible in such a case.


Thank you for your understanding!

Biofuels

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REDcert offers the REDcert-DE and REDcert-EU certification schemes for the certification of sustainable biomass, biofuels and bioliquids.

Food

REDcert² is a reliable and efficient sustainability certification scheme
for food.

Animal Feed

REDcert² is a reliable and efficient sustainability certification scheme for animal feed.

Biomass for material purposes

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REDcert² is an efficient certification solution for the use of sustainable biomass as a material in the chemical industry.

Registration

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You can register for the REDcert-DE, REDcert-EU and REDcert² certification schemes on our online portal.

Registration

Certificates

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All certificates and inspection certificates currently issued in the REDcert schemes can be found on our public overview of certificates.

Certificates

Land register

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REDcert offers with the land register (in German only) all farmers the free opportunity to keep their land registers secure on a permanent basis.

Land register

NUTS-tool

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REDcert’s NUTS tool lets you search for NUTS2 regions for biomass cultivated in Germany.

NUTS tool