# Directive 2009/28/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 April 2009 on the promotion of the use of energy from renewable sources and amending and subsequently repealing Directives 2001/77/EC and 2003/30/EC (Text with EEA relevance), Division A: Typical and default values for biofuels if produced with no net carbon emissions from land-use change

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

Not including animal oil produced from animal by-products classified as category 3 material in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 1774/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 3 October 2002 laying down health rules on animal by-products not intended for human consumption
JO L 273 du 10.10.2002, p. 1.
Biofuel production pathway
Typical greenhouse gas emission saving
Default greenhouse gas emission saving
sugar beet ethanol
61 %
52 %
wheat ethanol (process fuel not specified)
32 %
16 %
wheat ethanol (lignite as process fuel in CHP plant)
32 %
16 %
wheat ethanol (natural gas as process fuel in conventional boiler)
45 %
34 %
wheat ethanol (natural gas as process fuel in CHP plant)
53 %
47 %
wheat ethanol (straw as process fuel in CHP plant)
69 %
69 %
corn (maize) ethanol, Community produced (natural gas as process fuel in CHP plant)
56 %
49 %
sugar cane ethanol
71 %
71 %
the part from renewable sources of ethyl-tertio-butyl-ether (ETBE)
Equal to that of the ethanol production pathway used
the part from renewable sources of tertiary-amyl-ethyl-ether (TAEE)
Equal to that of the ethanol production pathway used
rape seed biodiesel
45 %
38 %
sunflower biodiesel
58 %
51 %
soybean biodiesel
40 %
31 %
palm oil biodiesel (process not specified)
36 %
19 %
palm oil biodiesel (process with methane capture at oil mill)
62 %
56 %
waste vegetable or animal oil biodiesel
88 %
83 %
hydrotreated vegetable oil from rape seed
51 %
47 %
hydrotreated vegetable oil from sunflower
65 %
62 %
hydrotreated vegetable oil from palm oil (process not specified)
40 %
26 %
hydrotreated vegetable oil from palm oil (process with methane capture at oil mill)
68 %
65 %
pure vegetable oil from rape seed
58 %
57 %
biogas from municipal organic waste as compressed natural gas
80 %
73 %
biogas from wet manure as compressed natural gas
84 %
81 %
biogas from dry manure as compressed natural gas
86 %
82 %

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudr/2009/28/annex/V/division/A (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2009-28/annex-V/division-A
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