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Your partner for sustainability certification

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

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 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.

REDcert - Your partner for sustainability certification

With the introduction of a mandatory sustainability certification for biofuels and bioliquids on the basis of the EU Directive on Renewable Energy, the European agricultural and bioenergy sector implemented the very first internationally valid sustainability regulation for biofuels in the world. Germany has played a pioneering role in these efforts since the Sustainability Ordinances went into force on 1 January 2011.

To support the practical implementation of the Sustainability Ordinances, REDcert GmbH was founded by leading associations and organisations of the German agricultural and biofuel economy on 26 February 2010. With the approval of the scheme of the same name on 20 July 2010 (the REDcert-DE scheme at that time), the economic groups affected assumed joint responsibility for actively promoting biofuels and liquid biomass certified as sustainable.

Today REDcert operates one of the leading certification schemes for sustainable biomass, biofuels and biofuels (REDcert-DE and REDcert-EU) in Germany and Europe. The issue of “sustainability” no longer just affects the requirements for greenhouse gas reduction and traceability of biomass in the biofuel industry, it also plays an important role in the procurement of sustainable raw materials for the food and animal feed industry as well as for biomass for material use. As a result, REDcert² has been available as a certification scheme for sustainable agricultural raw materials for processing in these sectors since 2015.

In 2018, the scope of the REDcert² scheme in the area of biomass use for material purposes was expanded to include another important economic sector with the introduction of the "Supplementary REDcert² scheme principles for the chemical industry" . The chemical industry is also increasingly relying on the use of sustainably produced and certified biomass to replace fossil-based raw materials. It therefore makes an important contribution to reducing greenhouse gases and conserving fossil-based resources.

Biofuels

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

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.

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.

NUTS-tool

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

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.