📢Hot off the press! New Aviation Policy Brief on Book and Claim for SAFs in the EU!

To make flying more sustainable, the EU has started implementing several policy measures to combat the sector’s emissions. Most prominent is the ReFuelEU Aviation regulation, adopted in October 2023, which focuses on SAF supply and uptake through progressively increasing targets. However, with SAF production remaining low in the EU to this day – at 0.24 Mt or 0.6% of the EU’s 2023 total fuel consumption – additional measures must be employed to help achieve these regulation’s targets and the long-term aspirational goals of the sector.

Flexibility mechanisms such as Book and Claim can help widen the market for SAF tradability by removing geographical barriers, increasing SAF accessibility, and overcoming shortfalls in supply in the short-to-medium term – if properly implemented.

This brief outlines Future Cleantech Architects’ six policy recommendations to ensure the effective implementation of a Book and Claim scheme for SAFs, implementation and adherence to these measures will be key to ensuring the integrity and effectiveness of the system in achieving its environmental goals:

✅ Implement harmonized SAF sustainability standards and a certification process.

✅ Implement a SAF trusted partners registry.

✅ Incorporate Book and Claim as a flexibility tool in ReFuelEU (Art. 15).

✅ Adopt policy mechanisms to support Book and Claim schemes on a Member State level.

✅ Monitor and leverage current Book and Claim schemes.

✅ Develop and enact a harmonized EU Book and Claim framework.

A big thank you to Ghassan Wakim (Clean Air Task Force) and Jan Lueckhof for sharing your views on the scheme with us!

You can find the Policy Brief on our website here.