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      "status": null,
      "parent": "annex/V/division/C"
    },
    {
      "path": "annex/V/division/C/division/15",
      "kind": "division",
      "number": "15",
      "heading": null,
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2018-2001/annex-V/division-C/division-15",
      "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
      "status": null,
      "parent": "annex/V/division/C"
    },
    {
      "path": "annex/V/division/C/division/16",
      "kind": "division",
      "number": "16",
      "heading": "Where a cogeneration unit – providing heat and/or electricity to a fuel production process for which emissions are being calculated – produces excess electricity and/or excess useful heat, the greenhouse gas emissions shall be divided between the electricity and the useful heat according to the temperature of the heat (which reflects the usefulness (utility) of the heat). The useful part of the heat is found by multiplying its energy content with the Carnot efficiency, Ch, calculated as follows:",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2018-2001/annex-V/division-C/division-16",
      "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
      "status": null,
      "parent": "annex/V/division/C"
    },
    {
      "path": "annex/V/division/C/division/17",
      "kind": "division",
      "number": "17",
      "heading": null,
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2018-2001/annex-V/division-C/division-17",
      "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
      "status": null,
      "parent": "annex/V/division/C"
    },
    {
      "path": "annex/V/division/C/division/18",
      "kind": "division",
      "number": "18",
      "heading": "For the purposes of the calculation referred to in point 17, the emissions to be divided shall be eec + el + esca + those fractions of ep, etd, eccs, and eccr that take place up to and including the process step at which a co-product is produced. If any allocation to co-products has taken place at an earlier process step in the life-cycle, the fraction of those emissions assigned in the last such process step to the intermediate fuel product shall be used for those purposes instead of the total of those emissions.",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2018-2001/annex-V/division-C/division-18",
      "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
      "status": null,
      "parent": "annex/V/division/C"
    },
    {
      "path": "annex/V/division/C/division/19",
      "kind": "division",
      "number": "19",
      "heading": "For biofuels, for the purposes of the calculation referred to in point 3, the fossil fuel comparator EF(t) shall be 94 g CO2eq/MJ.",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2018-2001/annex-V/division-C/division-19",
      "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
      "status": null,
      "parent": "annex/V/division/C"
    },
    {
      "path": "annex/V/division/D",
      "kind": "division",
      "number": "D",
      "heading": "DISAGGREGATED DEFAULT VALUES FOR BIOFUELS AND BIOLIQUIDS",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2018-2001/annex-V/division-D",
      "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
      "status": null,
      "parent": "annex/V"
    },
    {
      "path": "annex/V/division/E",
      "kind": "division",
      "number": "E",
      "heading": "ESTIMATED DISAGGREGATED DEFAULT VALUES FOR FUTURE BIOFUELS AND BIOLIQUIDS THAT WERE NOT ON THE MARKET OR WERE ONLY ON THE MARKET IN NEGLIGIBLE QUANTITIES IN 2016",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2018-2001/annex-V/division-E",
      "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
      "status": null,
      "parent": "annex/V"
    },
    {
      "path": "annex/VI",
      "kind": "annex",
      "number": "VI",
      "heading": "RULES FOR CALCULATING THE GREENHOUSE GAS IMPACT OF BIOMASS FUELS AND THEIR FOSSIL FUEL COMPARATORS",
      "url": null,
      "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
      "status": null,
      "parent": null
    },
    {
      "path": "annex/VI/division/A",
      "kind": "division",
      "number": "A",
      "heading": "Typical and default values of greenhouse gas emissions savings for biomass fuels if produced with no net-carbon emissions from land-use change",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2018-2001/annex-VI/division-A",
      "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
      "status": null,
      "parent": "annex/VI"
    },
    {
      "path": "annex/VI/division/B",
      "kind": "division",
      "number": "B",
      "heading": "METHODOLOGY",
      "url": null,
      "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
      "status": null,
      "parent": "annex/VI"
    },
    {
      "path": "annex/VI/division/B/division/1",
      "kind": "division",
      "number": "1",
      "heading": "Greenhouse gas emissions from the production and use of biomass fuels, shall be calculated as follows:",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2018-2001/annex-VI/division-B/division-1",
      "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
      "status": null,
      "parent": "annex/VI/division/B"
    },
    {
      "path": "annex/VI/division/B/division/2",
      "kind": "division",
      "number": "2",
      "heading": "Greenhouse gas emissions from biomass fuels shall be expressed as follows:",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2018-2001/annex-VI/division-B/division-2",
      "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
      "status": null,
      "parent": "annex/VI/division/B"
    },
    {
      "path": "annex/VI/division/B/division/3",
      "kind": "division",
      "number": "3",
      "heading": "Greenhouse gas emissions savings from biomass fuels shall be calculated as follows:",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2018-2001/annex-VI/division-B/division-3",
      "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
      "status": null,
      "parent": "annex/VI/division/B"
    },
    {
      "path": "annex/VI/division/B/division/4",
      "kind": "division",
      "number": "4",
      "heading": "The greenhouse gases taken into account for the purposes of point 1 shall be CO2, N2O and CH4. For the purposes of calculating CO2 equivalence, those gases shall be valued as follows:",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2018-2001/annex-VI/division-B/division-4",
      "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
      "status": null,
      "parent": "annex/VI/division/B"
    },
    {
      "path": "annex/VI/division/B/division/5",
      "kind": "division",
      "number": "5",
      "heading": "Emissions from the extraction, harvesting or cultivation of raw materials, eec, shall include emissions from the extraction, harvesting or cultivation process itself; from the collection, drying and storage of raw materials; from waste and leakages; and from the production of chemicals or products used in extraction or cultivation. Capture of CO2 in the cultivation of raw materials shall be excluded. Estimates of emissions from agriculture biomass cultivation may be derived from the regional averages for cultivation emissions included in the reports referred to in Article 31(4) of this Directive or the information on the disaggregated default values for cultivation emissions included in this Annex, as an alternative to using actual values. In the absence of relevant information in those reports it is allowed to calculate averages based on local farming practises based for instance on data of a group of farms, as an alternative to using actual values.",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2018-2001/annex-VI/division-B/division-5",
      "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
      "status": null,
      "parent": "annex/VI/division/B"
    },
    {
      "path": "annex/VI/division/B/division/6",
      "kind": "division",
      "number": "6",
      "heading": null,
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2018-2001/annex-VI/division-B/division-6",
      "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
      "status": null,
      "parent": "annex/VI/division/B"
    },
    {
      "path": "annex/VI/division/B/division/7",
      "kind": "division",
      "number": "7",
      "heading": "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:",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2018-2001/annex-VI/division-B/division-7",
      "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
      "status": null,
      "parent": "annex/VI/division/B"
    },
    {
      "path": "annex/VI/division/B/division/8",
      "kind": "division",
      "number": "8",
      "heading": "The bonus of 29 g CO2eq/MJ shall be attributed if evidence is provided that the land:",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2018-2001/annex-VI/division-B/division-8",
      "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
      "status": null,
      "parent": "annex/VI/division/B"
    },
    {
      "path": "annex/VI/division/B/division/9",
      "kind": "division",
      "number": "9",
      "heading": null,
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2018-2001/annex-VI/division-B/division-9",
      "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
      "status": null,
      "parent": "annex/VI/division/B"
    },
    {
      "path": "annex/VI/division/B/division/10",
      "kind": "division",
      "number": "10",
      "heading": null,
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2018-2001/annex-VI/division-B/division-10",
      "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
      "status": null,
      "parent": "annex/VI/division/B"
    },
    {
      "path": "annex/VI/division/B/division/11",
      "kind": "division",
      "number": "11",
      "heading": "Emissions from processing, ep, shall include emissions from the processing itself; from waste and leakages; and from the production of chemicals or products used in processing, including the CO2 emissions corresponding to the carbon contents of fossil inputs, whether or not actually combusted in the process.",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2018-2001/annex-VI/division-B/division-11",
      "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
      "status": null,
      "parent": "annex/VI/division/B"
    },
    {
      "path": "annex/VI/division/B/division/12",
      "kind": "division",
      "number": "12",
      "heading": null,
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2018-2001/annex-VI/division-B/division-12",
      "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
      "status": null,
      "parent": "annex/VI/division/B"
    },
    {
      "path": "annex/VI/division/B/division/13",
      "kind": "division",
      "number": "13",
      "heading": null,
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2018-2001/annex-VI/division-B/division-13",
      "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
      "status": null,
      "parent": "annex/VI/division/B"
    },
    {
      "path": "annex/VI/division/B/division/14",
      "kind": "division",
      "number": "14",
      "heading": null,
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2018-2001/annex-VI/division-B/division-14",
      "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
      "status": null,
      "parent": "annex/VI/division/B"
    },
    {
      "path": "annex/VI/division/B/division/15",
      "kind": "division",
      "number": "15",
      "heading": null,
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2018-2001/annex-VI/division-B/division-15",
      "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
      "status": null,
      "parent": "annex/VI/division/B"
    },
    {
      "path": "annex/VI/division/B/division/16",
      "kind": "division",
      "number": "16",
      "heading": "Where a cogeneration unit – providing heat and/or electricity to a biomass fuel production process for which emissions are being calculated – produces excess electricity and/or excess useful heat, the greenhouse gas emissions shall be divided between the electricity and the useful heat according to the temperature of the heat (which reflects the usefulness (utility) of the heat). The useful part of the heat is found by multiplying its energy content with the Carnot efficiency, Ch, calculated as follows:",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2018-2001/annex-VI/division-B/division-16",
      "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
      "status": null,
      "parent": "annex/VI/division/B"
    },
    {
      "path": "annex/VI/division/B/division/17",
      "kind": "division",
      "number": "17",
      "heading": null,
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2018-2001/annex-VI/division-B/division-17",
      "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
      "status": null,
      "parent": "annex/VI/division/B"
    },
    {
      "path": "annex/VI/division/B/division/18",
      "kind": "division",
      "number": "18",
      "heading": "For the purposes of the calculations referred to in point 17, the emissions to be divided shall be eec + el + esca + those fractions of ep, etd, eccs and eccr that take place up to and including the process step at which a co-product is produced. If any allocation to co-products has taken place at an earlier process step in the life-cycle, the fraction of those emissions assigned in the last such process step to the intermediate fuel product shall be used for those purposes instead of the total of those emissions.",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2018-2001/annex-VI/division-B/division-18",
      "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
      "status": null,
      "parent": "annex/VI/division/B"
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    {
      "path": "annex/VI/division/B/division/19",
      "kind": "division",
      "number": "19",
      "heading": "For biomass fuels used for the production of electricity, for the purposes of the calculation referred to in point 3, the fossil fuel comparator ECF(el) shall be 183 g CO2eq/MJ electricity or 212 g CO2eq/MJ electricity for the outermost regions.",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2018-2001/annex-VI/division-B/division-19",
      "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
      "status": null,
      "parent": "annex/VI/division/B"
    },
    {
      "path": "annex/VI/division/C",
      "kind": "division",
      "number": "C",
      "heading": "DISAGGREGATED DEFAULT VALUES FOR BIOMASS FUELS",
      "url": null,
      "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
      "status": null,
      "parent": "annex/VI"
    },
    {
      "path": "annex/VI/division/C/division/1",
      "kind": "division",
      "number": null,
      "heading": "Wood briquettes or pellets",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2018-2001/annex-VI/division-C/division-1",
      "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
      "status": null,
      "parent": "annex/VI/division/C"
    },
    {
      "path": "annex/VI/division/C/division/2",
      "kind": "division",
      "number": null,
      "heading": "Wood briquettes or pellets",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2018-2001/annex-VI/division-C/division-2",
      "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
      "status": null,
      "parent": "annex/VI/division/C"
    },
    {
      "path": "annex/VI/division/C/division/3",
      "kind": "division",
      "number": null,
      "heading": "Agriculture pathways",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2018-2001/annex-VI/division-C/division-3",
      "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
      "status": null,
      "parent": "annex/VI/division/C"
    },
    {
      "path": "annex/VI/division/C/division/4",
      "kind": "division",
      "number": null,
      "heading": "Disaggregated default values for biogas for the production of electricity",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2018-2001/annex-VI/division-C/division-4",
      "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
      "status": null,
      "parent": "annex/VI/division/C"
    },
    {
      "path": "annex/VI/division/C/division/5",
      "kind": "division",
      "number": null,
      "heading": "Disaggregated default values for biomethane",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2018-2001/annex-VI/division-C/division-5",
      "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
      "status": null,
      "parent": "annex/VI/division/C"
    },
    {
      "path": "annex/VI/division/D",
      "kind": "division",
      "number": "D",
      "heading": "TOTAL TYPICAL AND DEFAULT VALUES FOR BIOMASS FUEL PATHWAYS",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2018-2001/annex-VI/division-D",
      "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
      "status": null,
      "parent": "annex/VI"
    },
    {
      "path": "annex/VI/division/D/annotation/1",
      "kind": "division",
      "number": null,
      "heading": null,
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2018-2001/annex-VI/division-D/annotation/1",
      "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
      "status": null,
      "parent": "annex/VI/division/D"
    },
    {
      "path": "annex/VI/division/D/annotation/2",
      "kind": "division",
      "number": null,
      "heading": null,
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2018-2001/annex-VI/division-D/annotation/2",
      "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
      "status": null,
      "parent": "annex/VI/division/D"
    },
    {
      "path": "annex/VI/division/D/annotation/3",
      "kind": "division",
      "number": null,
      "heading": null,
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2018-2001/annex-VI/division-D/annotation/3",
      "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
      "status": null,
      "parent": "annex/VI/division/D"
    },
    {
      "path": "annex/VI/division/D/division/4",
      "kind": "division",
      "number": null,
      "heading": "Typical and default values – biogas for electricity",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2018-2001/annex-VI/division-D/division-4",
      "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
      "status": null,
      "parent": "annex/VI/division/D"
    },
    {
      "path": "annex/VI/division/D/division/5",
      "kind": "division",
      "number": null,
      "heading": "Typical and default values for biomethane",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2018-2001/annex-VI/division-D/division-5",
      "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
      "status": null,
      "parent": "annex/VI/division/D"
    },
    {
      "path": "annex/VI/division/D/division/6",
      "kind": "division",
      "number": null,
      "heading": "Typical and default values – biogas for electricity – mixtures of manure and maize: greenhouse gas emissions with shares given on a fresh mass basis",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2018-2001/annex-VI/division-D/division-6",
      "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
      "status": null,
      "parent": "annex/VI/division/D"
    },
    {
      "path": "annex/VI/division/D/division/6/annotations/1",
      "kind": "division",
      "number": null,
      "heading": "Comments",
      "url": null,
      "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
      "status": null,
      "parent": "annex/VI/division/D/division/6"
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    {
      "path": "annex/VI/division/D/division/6/annotations/1/annotation/1",
      "kind": "division",
      "number": null,
      "heading": null,
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2018-2001/annex-VI/division-D/division-6/annotations/1/annotation/1",
      "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
      "status": null,
      "parent": "annex/VI/division/D/division/6/annotations/1"
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    {
      "path": "annex/VI/division/D/division/6/annotations/1/annotation/2",
      "kind": "division",
      "number": null,
      "heading": null,
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2018-2001/annex-VI/division-D/division-6/annotations/1/annotation/2",
      "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
      "status": null,
      "parent": "annex/VI/division/D/division/6/annotations/1"
    },
    {
      "path": "annex/VI/division/D/division/6/annotations/1/annotation/3",
      "kind": "division",
      "number": null,
      "heading": null,
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2018-2001/annex-VI/division-D/division-6/annotations/1/annotation/3",
      "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
      "status": null,
      "parent": "annex/VI/division/D/division/6/annotations/1"
    },
    {
      "path": "annex/VI/division/D/division/7",
      "kind": "division",
      "number": null,
      "heading": "Typical and default values – biomethane - mixtures of manure and maize: greenhouse gas emissions with shares given on a fresh mass basis",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2018-2001/annex-VI/division-D/division-7",
      "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
      "status": null,
      "parent": "annex/VI/division/D"
    },
    {
      "path": "annex/VII",
      "kind": "annex",
      "number": "VII",
      "heading": "ACCOUNTING OF ENERGY FROM HEAT PUMPS",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2018-2001/annex-VII",
      "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
      "status": null,
      "parent": null
    },
    {
      "path": "annex/VIII",
      "kind": "annex",
      "number": "VIII",
      "heading": null,
      "url": null,
      "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
      "status": null,
      "parent": null
    },
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      "path": "annex/VIII/part/A",
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      "number": "A.",
      "heading": "PROVISIONAL ESTIMATED INDIRECT LAND-USE CHANGE EMISSIONS FROM BIOFUEL, BIOLIQUID AND BIOMASS FUEL FEEDSTOCK (g CO2eq/MJ)",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2018-2001/annex-VIII/part-A",
      "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
      "status": null,
      "parent": "annex/VIII"
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      "path": "annex/VIII/part/B",
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      "number": "B.",
      "heading": "BIOFUELS, BIOLIQUIDS AND BIOMASS FUELS FOR WHICH THE ESTIMATED INDIRECT LAND-USE CHANGE EMISSIONS ARE CONSIDERED TO BE ZERO",
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2018-2001/annex-VIII/part-B",
      "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
      "status": null,
      "parent": "annex/VIII"
    },
    {
      "path": "annex/IX",
      "kind": "annex",
      "number": "IX",
      "heading": null,
      "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2018-2001/annex-IX",
      "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
      "status": null,
      "parent": null
    },
    {
      "path": "annex/X",
      "kind": "annex",
      "number": "X",
      "heading": null,
      "url": null,
      "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
      "status": null,
      "parent": null
    },
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