S.I. No. 115/2019 - European Union (Renewable Energy) (Amendment) Regulations 2019

1. Feedstocks which are not listed in Part A;

2. Feedstocks, the production of which has led to direct land-use change, i.e. a change from one of the following IPCC land cover categories: forest land, grassland, wetlands, settlements or other land to cropland or perennial cropland

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. In such a case a direct land-use change emission value (

e

l ) should have been calculated in accordance with paragraph 7 of Part C of Schedule 4.

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The mean values reported here represent a weighted average of the individually modelled feedstock values. The magnitude of the values in the Schedule is sensitive to the range of assumptions (such as treatment of co-products, yield developments, carbon stocks and displacement of other commodities) used in the economic models developed for their estimation. Although it is therefore not possible to fully characterise the uncertainty range associated with such estimates, a sensitivity analysis conducted on the results based on a random variation of key parameters, a so-called Monte Carlo analysis, was conducted.

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Perennial crops are defined as multi-annual crops, the stem of which is usually not annually harvested such as short rotation coppice and oil palm.”.

GIVEN under my Official Seal,

20 March 2019

RICHARD BRUTON,

Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment.

1 OJ No. L. 140, 5.6.2009, p. 16

2 OJ No. L. 239, 15.9.2015, p. 1

Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in

“Iris Oifigiúil” of

26

th March,

2019.

I, RICHARD BRUTON, Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by

section 3

of the

European Communities Act 1972

(No. 27 of 1972), and for the purpose of giving further effect to Directive 2009/28/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 April 2009

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as amended by Directive (EU) 2015/1513 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 9 September 2015

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, hereby make the following regulations