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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2019-331/annex-VII/division-4/division-4.6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2019-331/annex-VII/division-4/division-4.6.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2019/331",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/331 of 19 December 2018 determining transitional Union-wide rules for harmonised free allocation of emission allowances pursuant to Article 10a of Directive 2003/87/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2019-331",
  "path": "annex/VII/division/4/division/4.6",
  "kind": "division",
  "number": "4.6",
  "heading": "Selecting data sources for properties of materials",
  "text": "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:\n(a)Methods for determining calculation factors in accordance with the monitoring plan approved under Regulation (EU) No 601/2012 or the Monitoring and Reporting Regulation 2018;\n(b)Laboratory analyses in accordance with section 6.1 of this Annex;\n(c)Simplified laboratory analyses in accordance with section 6.2 of this Annex;\n(d)Constant values based on one of the following data sources:\nstandard factors used by the United Kingdom for its national inventory submission to the Secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change;\nliterature values agreed with the regulator, 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;\nvalues 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 %;\n(e)Constant values based on one of the following data sources:\nstandard factors and stoichiometric factors listed in Annex VI to the Monitoring and Reporting Regulation 2018 or listed in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) guidelines;\nvalues 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;\nOther values based on scientific evidence.\nFor 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).",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Annex 7 Section 4.6 inserted (31.12.2020) by The Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme (Amendment) Order 2020 (S.I. 2020/1557), art. 2(2), Sch. 1 para. 37(5)(d)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Annex 7 Section 4.6 substituted (31.12.2020) by The Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme (Amendment) Order 2020 (S.I. 2020/1557), art. 2(2), Sch. 1 para. 37(5)(d)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Regulation substituted (31.12.2020) by The Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme (Amendment) Order 2020 (S.I. 2020/1557), art. 2(2), Sch. 1 para. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Annex 7 Section 4.6 substituted (31.12.2020) by The Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme (Amendment) Order 2020 (S.I. 2020/1557), art. 2(2), Sch. 1 para. 37(5)(d)(iii)"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2019/331/annex/VII/division/4/division/4.6",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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