# 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), Annex I

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

The Annexes to Directive 98/70/EC are amended as follows:
(1) Point 7 of Part C of Annex IV, is replaced by the following:
‘7.
Annualised emissions from carbon stock changes caused by land-use change, el, shall be calculated by dividing total emissions equally over 20 years. For the calculation of those emissions, the following rule shall be applied:
el = (CSR – CSA) × 3,664 × 1/20 × 1/P – eB,
where
el annualised greenhouse gas emissions from carbon stock change due to land-use change (measured as mass (grams) of CO2-equivalent per unit biofuel energy (megajoules)). “Cropland” and “perennial cropland” shall be regarded as one land use;
CSR the carbon stock per unit area associated with the reference land-use (measured as mass (tonnes) 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;
CSA the carbon stock per unit area associated with the actual land-use (measured as mass (tonnes) 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 CSA shall be the estimated stock per unit area after 20 years or when the crop reaches maturity, whichever is the earlier;
P the productivity of the crop (measured as biofuel energy per unit area per year) and
eB bonus of 29 gCO2eq/MJ biofuel if biomass is obtained from restored degraded land under the conditions provided for in point 8.’.
(2) The following Annex is added:
‘ANNEX V
Part A. Provisional estimated indirect land-use change emissions from biofuels (gCO2eq/MJ)
The mean values included here represent a weighted average of the individually modelled feedstock values.
The range included here reflects 90 % of the results using the fifth and ninety-fifth percentile values resulting from the analysis. The fifth percentile suggests a value below which 5 % of the observations were found (i.e. 5 % of total data used showed results below 8, 4, and 33 gCO2eq/MJ). The ninety-fifth percentile suggests a value below which 95 % of the observations were found (i.e. 5 % of total data used showed results above 16, 17, and 66 gCO2eq/MJ).
Feedstock group
Mean
Interpercentile range derived from the sensitivity analysis
Cereals and other starch-rich crops
12
8 to 16
Sugars
13
4 to 17
Oil crops
55
33 to 66
Part B. Biofuels for which the estimated indirect land-use change emissions are considered to be zero
Biofuels produced from the following feedstock categories will be considered to have estimated indirect land-use change emissions of zero:
(1) feedstocks which are not listed under Part A of this Annex.
(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. In such a case a direct land-use change emission value (el ) should have been calculated in accordance with paragraph 7 of Part C of Annex IV.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudr/2015/1513/annex/I (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2015-1513/annex-I
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