Textual Amendments
F1 Substituted by Directive 2009/30/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 April 2009 amending Directive 98/70/EC as regards the specification of petrol, diesel and gas-oil and introducing a mechanism to monitor and reduce greenhouse gas emissions and amending Council Directive 1999/32/EC as regards the specification of fuel used by inland waterway vessels and repealing Directive 93/12/EEC (Text with EEA relevance).
E = e ec + e l + e p + e td + e u – e sca – e ccs – e ccr – e ee
where
=
total emissions from the use of the fuel;
=
emissions from the extraction or cultivation of raw materials;
=
annualised emissions from carbon stock changes caused by land use change;
=
emissions from processing;
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emissions from transport and distribution;
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emissions from the fuel in use;
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emission savings from soil carbon accumulation via improved agricultural management;
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emission savings from carbon capture and geological storage;
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emission savings from carbon capture and replacement; and
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emission savings from excess electricity from cogeneration.
Emissions from the manufacture of machinery and equipment shall not be taken into account.
SAVING = ( E F – E B )/ E F
where
=
total emissions from the biofuel; and
=
total emissions from the fossil fuel comparator.
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1
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296
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e l = ( CS R – CS A ) × 3,664 × 1/20 × 1/ P – e B (1) ,
where
=
annualised greenhouse gas emissions from carbon stock change due to land use change (measured as mass of CO 2 -equivalent per unit biofuel energy);
=
the carbon stock per unit area associated with the reference land use (measured as mass of carbon per unit area, including both soil and vegetation). The reference land use shall be the land use in January 2008 or 20 years before the raw material was obtained, whichever was the later;
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the carbon stock per unit area associated with the actual land use (measured as mass of carbon per unit area, including both soil and vegetation). In cases where the carbon stock accumulates over more than one year, the value attributed to CS A shall be the estimated stock per unit area after 20 years or when the crop reaches maturity, whichever is the earlier;
=
the productivity of the crop (measured as biofuel energy per unit area per year); and
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bonus of 29 gCO 2eq /MJ biofuel if biomass is obtained from restored degraded land under the conditions provided for in point 8.
was not in use for agriculture or any other activity in January 2008; and
falls into one of the following categories:
severely degraded land, including such land that was formerly in agricultural use;
heavily contaminated land.
The bonus of 29 gCO 2eq /MJ shall apply for a period of up to 10 years from the date of conversion of the land to agricultural use, provided that a steady increase in carbon stocks as well as a sizable reduction in erosion phenomena for land falling under (i) are ensured and that soil contamination for land falling under (ii) is reduced.
‘ severely degraded land ’ means land that, for a significant period of time, has either been significantly salinated or presented significantly low organic matter content and been severely eroded;
‘ heavily contaminated land ’ means land that is unfit for the cultivation of food and feed due to soil contamination.
Such land shall include land that has been the subject of a Commission decision in accordance with the fourth subparagraph of Article 7c(3).
In accounting for the consumption of electricity not produced within the fuel production plant, the greenhouse gas emission intensity of the production and distribution of that electricity shall be assumed to be equal to the average emission intensity of the production and distribution of electricity in a defined region. As an exception to this rule producers may use an average value for an individual electricity production plant for electricity produced by that plant, if that plant is not connected to the electricity grid.
All co-products, including electricity that does not fall under the scope of point 16, shall be taken into account for the purposes of that calculation, except for agricultural crop residues, including straw, bagasse, husks, cobs and nut shells. Co-products that have a negative energy content shall be considered to have an energy content of zero for the purpose of the calculation.
Wastes, agricultural crop residues, including straw, bagasse, husks, cobs and nut shells, and residues from processing, including crude glycerine (glycerine that is not refined), shall be considered to have zero life-cycle greenhouse gas emissions up to the process of collection of those materials.
In the case of fuels produced in refineries, the unit of analysis for the purposes of the calculation referred to in point 17 shall be the refinery.
[F1The quotient obtained by dividing the molecular weight of CO 2 (44,010 g/mol) by the molecular weight of carbon (12,011 g/mol) is equal to 3,664.]
Textual Amendments
F1 Substituted by Directive 2009/30/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 April 2009 amending Directive 98/70/EC as regards the specification of petrol, diesel and gas-oil and introducing a mechanism to monitor and reduce greenhouse gas emissions and amending Council Directive 1999/32/EC as regards the specification of fuel used by inland waterway vessels and repealing Directive 93/12/EEC (Text with EEA relevance).