Biomass which meets one of the following conditions:
(a) The biomass originates from land areas that are forests where: (i) The land area remains a forest; (ii) Sustainable management practices are undertaken on these land areas to ensure, in particular, that the level of carbon stocks on these land areas does not systematically decrease over time (carbon stocks may temporarily decrease due to harvesting); and (iii) Any national or regional forestry and nature conservation regulations are complied with;
(b) The biomass is woody biomass and originates from croplands and/or grasslands where: (i) The land area remains cropland and/or grasslands or is reverted to forest; and (ii) Sustainable management practices are undertaken on these land areas to ensure in particular that the level of carbonstocks on these land areas does not systematically decrease over time (carbon stocks may temporarily decrease due to harvesting); and (iii) Any national or regional forestry, agriculture and nature conservation regulations are complied with;
(c) The biomass is non-woody biomass and originates from croplands and/or grasslands where: (i) The land area remains cropland and/or grasslands or is reverted to forest; and (ii) Sustainable management practices are undertaken on these land areas to ensure in particular that the level of carbon stocks on these land areas does not systematically decrease over time (carbon stocks may temporarily decrease due to harvesting); and (iii) Any national or regional forestry, agriculture and nature conservation regulations are complied with;
(d) The biomass is a biomass residue and the use of that biomass residue in the CDM project activity (A/R) does not involve a decrease of carbon pools, in particular dead wood, litter or soil organic carbon, on the land areas from which the biomass residues originate;
(e) The biomass is the non-fossil fraction of an industrial or municipal waste.
