Directive 98/70/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 October 1998 relating to the quality of petrol and diesel fuels and amending Council Directive 93/12/EEC (c. 70)

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[F1 ANNEX IV U.K. RULES FOR CALCULATING LIFE CYCLE GREENHOUSE EMISSIONS FROM BIOFUELS

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. Estimated disaggregated default values for future biofuels that were not on the market or were only on the market in negligible quantities in January 2008 U.K.

Total for cultivation, processing, transport and distribution U.K.

Biofuel production pathway	Typical greenhouse gas emissions (gCO 2eq /MJ)	Default greenhouse gas emissions (gCO 2eq /MJ)
Wheat straw ethanol	11	13
Waste wood ethanol	17	22
Farmed wood ethanol	20	25
Waste wood Fischer-Tropsch diesel	4	4
Farmed wood Fischer-Tropsch diesel	6	6
Waste wood DME	5	5
Farmed wood DME	7	7
Waste wood methanol	5	5
Farmed wood methanol	7	7
The part from renewable sources of MTBE	Equal to that of the methanol production pathway used]