Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/996 of 14 June 2022 on rules to veri... (32022R0996)
Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/996 of 14 June 2022 on rules to verify sustainability and greenhouse gas emissions saving criteria and low indirect land-use change-risk criteria (Text with EEA relevance)
- COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2022/996
- of 14 June 2022
- on rules to verify sustainability and greenhouse gas emissions saving criteria and low indirect land-use change-risk criteria
- (Text with EEA relevance)
- CHAPTER I
- INTRODUCTION
- Article 1
- Subject matter
- Article 2
- Definitions
- CHAPTER II
- GENERAL RULES ON GOVERNANCE, INTERNAL MONITORING, COMPLAINTS PROCEDURES AND TRANSPARENCY OF VOLUNTARY SCHEMES
- Article 3
- Governance structure of the voluntary scheme
- Article 4
- Non-conformities of economic operators under the scheme
- Article 5
- Internal monitoring, complaints procedure and documentation management system
- Article 6
- Publication of information by voluntary schemes
- Article 7
- Change of scheme by economic operators
- Article 8
- Recognition of other voluntary schemes
- Article 9
- Recognition of national schemes
- CHAPTER III
- AUDIT PROCESS, AUDIT SCOPE, QUALIFICATIONS OF AUDITORS AND AUDIT SUPERVISION
- Article 10
- Audit process and levels of assurance
- Article 11
- Auditor competence
- Article 12
- Group auditing
- Article 13
- Auditing of waste and residues
- Article 14
- Auditing of actual GHG emission calculations
- Article 15
- Audits of mass balance systems
- Article 16
- Auditing of natural and non-natural highly-biodiverse grassland
- Article 17
- Supervision by the Member States and the Commission
- CHAPTER IV
- SPECIFIC RULES ON THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE MASS BALANCE SYSTEM, THE UNION DATABASE AND THE ESTABLISHMENT OF GHG EMISSIONS AND BIOLOGICAL FRACTION OF FUELS
- Article 18
- Traceability and Union database
- Article 19
- Implementation of the mass balance system
- Article 20
- Determining the GHG emissions of biofuels, biomass fuels and bioliquids
- Article 21
- Specific rules for waste and residues
- Article 22
- Specific rules for recycled carbon fuels and renewable fuels of non-biological origin
- Article 23
- Specific rules for co-processing
- CHAPTER V
- SPECIFIC RULES ON COMPLIANCE WITH THE REQUIREMENTS ON LOW ILUC-RISK CERTIFICATION
- Article 24
- Specific requirements for low ILUC-risk certification
- Article 25
- Specific requirements for proving additionality
- Article 26
- Production on unused, abandoned or severely degraded land
- Article 27
- Determining additional biomass for yield increase measures
- CHAPTER VI
- FINAL PROVISIONS
- Article 28
- Entry into force and application
- ANNEX I
- DATA TO BE TRANSMITTED THROUGH THE WHOLE SUPPLY CHAIN AND TRANSACTION DATA
- ANNEX II
- MINIMUM CONTENT OF AUDIT REPORTS, SUMMARY AUDIT REPORTS OR CERTIFICATES
- A.
- Minimum content of the audit report
- B.
- Minimum content of the summary audit report or certificate
- ANNEX III
- LIST OF INFORMATION TO BE REPORTED BY VOLUNTARY SCHEMES IN THEIR ANNUAL ACTIVITY REPORTS TO THE COMMISSION
- ANNEX IV
- NON-EXHAUSTIVE LIST OF WASTE AND RESIDUES CURRENTLY COVERED BY ANNEX IX TO DIRECTIVE (EU) 2018/2001
- ANNEX V
- METHODOLOGY FOR DETERMINING THE EMISSION SAVINGS FROM SOIL CARBON ACCUMULATION VIA IMPROVED AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT
- ANNEX VI
- NON-EXAUSTIVE LISTS OF EXAMPLES OF ESSENTIAL MANAGEMENT AND MONITORING PRACTICES TO PROMOTE AND MONITOR SOIL CARBON SEQUESTRATION AND SOIL QUALITY
- ANNEX VII
- METHODOLOGY FOR DETERMINING THE EMISSIONS FROM THE EXTRACTION OR CULTIVATION OF RAW MATERIALS
- EMISSIONS FROM THE EXTRACTION OR CULTIVATION PROCESS ITSELF
- 1.1.
- Fuel use (diesel oil, gasoline, heavy fuel oil, biofuels or other fuels) for farm machinery
- 1.2.
- Chemical fertilisers and pesticides
- 1.3.
- Seeding material
- 1.4.
- Emissions from fertiliser acidification and liming application
- 1.4.1.
- Emissions from neutralisation of fertiliser acidification
- 1.4.2.
- Soil emissions from liming (aglime)
- 1.5.
- Soil (nitrous oxide/N
- 2
- O) emissions from crop cultivation
- 1.5.1.
- Crop residue N input
- 1.5.2.
- Crop and site-specific emission factors for N
- 2
- O emissions from synthetic fertiliser and organic N application
- Table 1
- Crop-specific parameters to calculate N input from crop residues
- (3)
- Table 2
- Constant and effect values for calculating N
- 2
- O emissions from agricultural fields based on the S&B model
- EMISSIONS FROM THE COLLECTION, DRYING AND STORAGE OF RAW MATERIALS
- Emissions from collection
- Biomass drying
- ACCOUNTING FOR EMISSIONS FOR ELECTRICITY USED IN FARMING OPERATIONS
- ANNEX VIII
- MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS ON THE PROCESS AND METHOD FOR CERTIFYING LOW INDIRECT LAND-USE CHANGE (ILUC) RISK BIOMASS
- A.
- Process of low ILUC risk certification
- 1.
- Content of the management plan
- 2.
- Non-exhaustive list of additionality measures
- B.
- Additionality assessment: Financial attractiveness or barrier analysis tests
- 1.
- Financial attractiveness test
- 2.
- Non-financial barrier test
- C.
- Setting the dynamic yield baseline and calculation of the actual volume of low ILUC risk biomass
- 1.
- Setting the dynamic yield baseline for annual crops
- 2.
- Setting the dynamic yield baseline for perennial crops
- Option 1a: Standard growth curve
- Figure 1
- Normalised standard growth curve palm yield
- Option 1b: Economic operator provides the growth curve
- Option 2: Group certification approach
- 3.
- Setting the dynamic yield baseline for sequential cropping
- Option 1. Demonstrate that the second crop does not lower the yield of the main crop
- Option 2a. Determine a dynamic yield baseline for a system in which the main crop is the same each year
- Option 2b. Determine a compensation factor for a system in which the main crop is different each year
- 4.
- Calculating additional biomass volume
- D.
- Minimum content of the low ILUC risk certificate
- ANNEX IX
- STANDARD VALUES OF EMISSIONS FACTORS
- Carbon Intensity of electricity produced and consumed in the EU in 2019 [gCO
- 2
- eq/kWh]
- With upstream emissions, without emissions from construction
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