Mandatory guidelines for GHG emission transfers in the KZR INiG from September 1, 2017

All KZR INiG system participants are obliged to implement the following guidelines by August 31, 2017.According to the European Commission's guidelines available at The following guidelines are a supplement to the KZR INiG System/8 document. The updating of the following requirements results from the need to implement the guidelines from the document titled " "Note on conducting and verifying actual calculations of GHG emission savings version 2.0". The new guidelines will apply from September 1, 2017.

  1. For the cultivation stage, GHG emissions can be reported in the following three variants:

- using actual values,

- using the average GHG emission at NUTS II level expressed in kgCO2eq / tonne of dry matter

- using a standard value, if available, and if the conditions for usingthe standard value are met

  1. Participants using standard values, do not have to provide GHG emission rates, but only information on the use of standard value and the chosen of biofuel production path. Only biocomponent producers are obliged to provide information about the standard value for emission reduction.
  1. If the farmer uses standard values for the cultivation stage, it does not provide GHG emission values, but only the standard value and the NUTS II region and value (to verify the eligibility of standard values - to update the Polish Biocomponent and Liquid Biofuels Act ).
  2. The actual GHG emission value must be converted per ton of dry product according to the following formula:
  1. Conversion of gCO2eq/MJ units to kgCO2eq/ton units is prohibited
  2. NUTS II values expressed in gCO2eq / MJ are used only to verify the applicability of standard values (up to the moment of updating the Polish Biocomponent and Liquid Biofuels Act). This value can not be used alternatively to the disaggregated standard value and can not be reported as "eec".
  3. The NUTS II values given in gCO2eq / tonne unit of dry mass may be used if they are published on the European Commission's website under the link: and can only be used as an alternative to the actual emission values for cultivation.
  4. GHG emissions for processing stage, even if it is implemented by several companies, is determined in one way. Therefore, all biomass processors are obliged to use only standard values or only actual values.
  5. Biodiesel from transesterification of fats with methanol is considered to be 100% from renewable sources. Calculation of the actual GHG emission value must include the GHG emission from methanol production. According to the RED directive, 0.0585 MJ methanol is used to produce 1 MJ FAME and this value was be used in the calculation of standard values.Own calculations in this respect should be based on data obtained from own installation.
  1. Whenever actual values are calculated at each step of the chain of custody, the additional emissions from transport and/or processing need to be added to ep and/or etd, respectively.
  1. Where actual values or combinations of actual and standard values are used, information on greenhouse gas emissions to subsequent operators should be added in addition to the components of the model for total GHG emissions in the life cycle given in Annex V of the RED Directive. This also applies to those components that are not included in standard values such as el, esca, eccr, eccs, and eee. This is necessary to ensure the transparency and robustness of the calculation, because the same batch of biomass can flow in the supply chain under different certification schemes.
  1. In the case of processing that results in more than one product, GHG emissions should be allocated between the main product and all other by-products. If the production of biofuels proceeds in several stages, the emission from raw material cultivation should be assigned to the intermediate products as follows:

Where:

At the last processing step, the emission estimate needs to be converted into the unit CO2eq/MJ of final biofuel.

For this transformation, the following formula should be applied to emissions from cultivation:

Where

In the calculation of the actual values, feedstock factors determined on the basis of their own process data should be used. Below is a sample of coefficients used to determine the standard values for the purposes of RED Directive

Pathway / Crop / LHV: MJ/kg dry feedstock / MJ feedstock
/MJ biofuel / Kg dry feedstock
/MJ biofuel
Sugar beet ethanol / Sugar beet / 16.3 / 1.840 / 0.1129
Wheat ethanol / Wheat / 17.0 / 1.882 / 0.1107
Corn ethanol / Corn / 18.5 / 1.958 / 0.1059
Sugar cane ethanol / Sugar cane / 19.6 / 2.772 / 0.1414
FAME biodiesel from rapeseed / Rapeseed / 26.4 / 1.729 / 0.0655
FAME biodiesel from sunflower / Sunflower seed / 26.4 / 1.610 / 0.0610
FAME biodiesel from soybeans / Soybeans / 23.5 / 3.078 / 0.1308
FAME from palm oil / FFB / 24.0 / 2.018 / 0.0841