Division 4.6 Selecting data sources for properties of materials

The following generic data sources shall be used selecting most accurate available data sources for determining properties such as moisture or purity of the substance, carbon content, net calorific value, biomass content, etc. of products, materials, fuels or waste gases as inputs or outputs of the installation or sub-installation:

1. (a)

   Methods for determining calculation factors in accordance with the monitoring plan approved under Regulation (EU) No 601/2012 F1or the Monitoring and Reporting Regulation 2018;

2. (b)

   Laboratory analyses in accordance with section 6.1 of this Annex;

3. (c)

   Simplified laboratory analyses in accordance with section 6.2 of this Annex;

4. (d)

   Constant values based on one of the following data sources:

   • standard factors used by the F2United Kingdom for its national inventory submission to the Secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change;

   • literature values agreed with the F3regulator, including standard factors published by the regulator, which are compatible with factors referred to under the previous sub-item, but they are representative of more disaggregated sources of fuel streams;

   • values specified and guaranteed by the supplier of a fuel or material where the operator can demonstrate to the satisfaction of the regulator that the carbon content exhibits a 95 % confidence interval of not more than 1 %;

5. (e)

   Constant values based on one of the following data sources:

   • standard factors and stoichiometric factors listed in Annex VI to F4the Monitoring and Reporting Regulation 2018 or listed in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) guidelines;

   • values based on analyses carried out in the past, where the operator can demonstrate to the satisfaction of the regulator that those values are representative for future batches of the same fuel or material;

   • Other values based on scientific evidence.

For selecting data sources for the purpose of Article 7(1), only the data sources referred to in points (a) and (b) of the first paragraph are considered representing most accurate data sources while data source referred to in point (a) of that paragraph shall be used to the extent that it covers the respective data set. The data sources referred to in points (c) to (e) of the first paragraph are considered less accurate in the descending hierarchical order from point (c) to point (e).