Royal Decree 1597/2011 transposed sustainability criteria to national regulation, defined Spain’s National Scheme for verification of compliance and transposed those provisions in the Directive related to double counting for some biofuels. The Royal Decree 1597/2011 is based on the EU Directive 2009/28/EC on the promotion of the use of energy from renewable sources and the sustainability criteria are identical to those in Article 17 of the RED.