Promotion of Quality standards and sustainability criteria

Biomass quality assurance and quality control (QA/QC) and tracing the origin of wood biomass will play an important role in the biomass heat and electricity market in the years to come. This action helped small biomass business to implement sustainable criteria in the production of biomass and an appropriate QA/QC system, having in mind also carbon foot printing.

The aim of this action was to increase consumers’ confidence in biomass quality and its sustainable production.

The action is building on the results and outcomes from previous actions, but on the other hand it gives an important input to these actions. Namely, quality standards and sustainability criteria have to be implemented in all parts of the biomass production chain, from wood biomass products to trading centers.


The main target groups were namely biomass business which will apply this system: biomass trading companies, existing BLTC, biomass producers, small and medium enterprises in rural areas, and also the laboratories specialized in biomass quality control.