About standardisation

While so called primary fuels are standardised internationally, such standards were missing for fuels made from waste.

• solid biofuels (CEN TC 335)
• solid recovered fuels (CEN TC 343)

While the mandate of CEN TC 335 covers all fuels purely derived from "biomass" as defined the scope of the Waste Incineration Directive 2000/76/EC,  the mandate of CEN TC 343 is on fuels derived from all other non hazardous solid wastes.

CEN TC 343 started in beginning of 2003. The Technical Specifications (TS), a kind of a pre-standard and Technical Reports (TR) are completed and published. For the classification of SRF a basic document has been used which describes the actual situation in Europe for those parameters that are of special interest. 

 
The upgrading phase to EN standard is running. The EN standards are expected to be ready in 2011 for Formal Vote by the national CEN members and will thereafter be published.

 
The upgrading from TS to EN comprises also the validation of the TS’s based on the outcome of the  Quo Vadis project. The Quo Vadis project started in 2005 as a common project of the European Commission, universities, institutes and industry and was completed beginning of 2008 (see internal part for more details).