期刊名称：Journal of Environmental Engineering and Landscape Management
印刷版ISSN：1648-6897
电子版ISSN：1822-4199
出版年度：2017
卷号：25
期号：2
页码：175-191
DOI：10.3846/16486897.2016.1254640
语种：English
出版社：Taylor & Francis Group
摘要：It is a relatively new concept to use biochar as soil amendment and for climate change mitigation. For this reason, the national and supranational legislation in the EU is not yet adequately prepared to regulate both the production and the application of biochar. Driven by this “regulatory gap”, voluntary biochar quality standards have been formed in Europe with the European Biochar Certificate, in the UK with the Biochar Quality Mandate and in the USA with the IBI Standard which is intended to be used internationally. In parallel to this, biochar producers and biochar users in a number of EU countries were partly successful in fitting the new biochar product into the existing national legislation for fertilisers, soil improvers and composts. The intended revision of the EC Regulation 2003/2003 on fertilisers offers the opportunity to regulate the use of biochar at the EU level. This publication summarizes the efforts on biochar standardization which have been carried out by voluntary products sta...
关键词：biochar; criteria; European Union; EU Fertiliser legislation; harmonization; quality; regulation; standard; threshold
