{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1998-70/annex-IV/division-D/division-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1998-70/annex-IV/division-D/division-2.json",
  "legislation": "eudr/1998/70",
  "legislation_title": "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",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1998-70",
  "path": "annex/IV/division/D/division/2",
  "kind": "division",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Disaggregated default values for processing (including excess electricity): ‘e p – e ee ’ as defined in Part C of this Annex",
  "text": "Biofuel production pathway\nTypical greenhouse gas emissions (gCO 2eq /MJ)\nDefault greenhouse gas emissions (gCO 2eq /MJ)\nSugar beet ethanol\n19\n26\nWheat ethanol (process fuel not specified)\n32\n45\nWheat ethanol (lignite as process fuel in CHP plant)\n32\n45\nWheat ethanol (natural gas as process fuel in conventional boiler)\n21\n30\nWheat ethanol (natural gas as process fuel in CHP plant)\n14\n19\nWheat ethanol (straw as process fuel in CHP plant)\n1\n1\nCorn (maize) ethanol, Community produced (natural gas as process fuel in CHP plant)\n15\n21\nSugar cane ethanol\n1\n1\nThe part from renewable sources of ETBE\nEqual to that of the ethanol production pathway used\nThe part from renewable sources of TAEE\nEqual to that of the ethanol production pathway used\nRape seed biodiesel\n16\n22\nSunflower biodiesel\n16\n22\nSoybean biodiesel\n18\n26\nPalm oil biodiesel (process not specified)\n35\n49\nPalm oil biodiesel (process with methane capture at oil mill)\n13\n18\nWaste vegetable or animal oil biodiesel\n9\n13\nHydrotreated vegetable oil from rape seed\n10\n13\nHydrotreated vegetable oil from sunflower\n10\n13\nHydrotreated vegetable oil from palm oil (process not specified)\n30\n42\nHydrotreated vegetable oil from palm oil (process with methane capture at oil mill)\n7\n9\nPure vegetable oil from rape seed\n4\n5\nBiogas from municipal organic waste as compressed natural gas\n14\n20\nBiogas from wet manure as compressed natural gas\n8\n11\nBiogas from dry manure as compressed natural gas\n8\n11",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "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)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudr/1998/70/annex/IV/division/D/division/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:23:06.441106+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}