Your partner for sustainability certification
  • 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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REDcert – Your partner for sustainability certifications


REDcert offers certification schemes for sustainable biomass, biofuels and bioliquids (REDcert-EU) as well as sustainable agricultural raw materials for use in the food/feed industry and biomass for material purposes respectively material purposes in the chemical industry (REDcert²). REDcert's philosophy is to support the scheme participants in the implementation of sustainability certification and offer practically oriented schemes.

Do you have different raw materials but only want a single sustainability certification scheme? REDcert has various solutions requiring only one audit which allows you to supply your raw materials to all markets.

The REDcert schemes are applicable to all economic operators in the respective value chain. REDcert’s activities related to the implementation of sustainability requirements mainly focus on Germany and Europe.


You can find information about the tasks and goals of REDcert, the scheme requirements, inspection system, training dates and much more on our website.



  • 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

Update of the Nabisy system

Shortly, there will be an important update of the Nabisy system! On the occasion of BLE's Nabisy Newsletter No.17 REDcert has issued its REDcert-INFO 03-2024.

GHG calculation in case of co-digestion

REDcert has published its REDcert-INFO 02-2024 on the occasion of BLE's newsletter No. 16 concerning the GHG calculation for biogas in case of co-digestion.

 

Technical Committee

The Technical Committee is essential to the REDcert schemes. It defines the principles and contents for the respective certification scheme and develops the schemes, taking into account the interests of all affected economic groups. The Technical Committee has to advise the executive management in the areas entrusted to it. The working methods of the Technical Committee are defined in the Rules of Procedure (RoP), where potential conflicts of interest and how they are handled are also addressed. The executive management must listen to the Technical Committee prior to decisions in the areas of responsibility transferred to this Technical Committee and must provide reasons for decisions made against the recommendations of the Technical Committee vis-à-vis the shareholders. The members of the Technical Committee must have sound knowledge and technical and professional expertise in all of the economic areas covered by the respective certification scheme (REDcert-EU or REDcert²) and have to be familiar with the rules of the REDcert system and other branch related certification schemes (quality management, environmental management, energy management). To meet these requirements, there is a Technical Committee for the REDcert-EU scheme and a Technical Committee for the REDcert² scheme for the chemical industry. Representatives from the sciences, government authorities and non-governmental organisations are involved when necessary. The members appointed by the shareholders to the Technical Committees represent the various process steps and economic sectors included in the respective REDcert scheme.

 

The Technical Committee of REDcert-EU convenes when necessitated by events.

 

A list of the members of the REDcert-EU Technical Committee you can find here.

 

The Technical Committee of REDcert² for the chemical industry convenes semi-annually.

 

 

Sanctions Committee

The REDcert Sanctions Committee is the committee established in the ‘sanction system’ of the REDcert certification schemes to penalise non-compliance with certification scheme requirements.

The Sanctions Committee is an independent, neutral committee of REDcert. It is comprised of 3 members in which one member is a lawyer who is qualified to hold the office of judge. The members of the Sanction Committee come from the economic groups involved in the production chain or their industry organisations and are appointed by the shareholders. They have sound knowledge and technical and professional expertise in all of the economic areas covered by the certification schemes and are familiar with the rules of the REDcert schemes and other branch-related certification schemes (quality management, environmental management, energy management) but do not have potential conflicts of interests as a result of either former or current job related activities. Any sanctions imposed by the Sanctions Committee are implemented by REDcert GmbH.

 

The Sanctions Committee convenes when necessitated by events.

 

A list of the members of the REDcert Sanctions Committee you can find here.

 

 

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

NUTS-tool

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

NUTS tool

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

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