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Part B. Biofuels for which the estimated indirect land- F1

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Biofuels produced from the following feedstock categories will be considered to have estimated indirect land-use change emissions of zero:

  1. (1)

    feedstocks which are not listed under Part A of this Annex.

  2. (2)

    feedstocks, the production of which has led to direct land-use change, i.e. a change from one of the following IPCC land cover categories; forest land, grassland, wetlands, settlements, or other land, to cropland or perennial cropland f1 . In such a case a direct land-use change emission value ( e l ) should have been calculated in accordance with paragraph 7 of Part C of Annex IV.

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Inserted by Directive (EU) 2015/1513 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 9 September 2015 amending Directive 98/70/EC relating to the quality of petrol and diesel fuels and amending Directive 2009/28/EC on the promotion of the use of energy from renewable sources (Text with EEA relevance).

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Perennial crops are defined as multi-annual crops, the stem of which is usually not annually harvested such as short rotation coppice and oil palm.