04/09/2025

NUTS2-Report published

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Anyone who places biofuels on the market and wants them to count towards the statutory quota obligations must state the greenhouse gas balance for each individual delivery. Part of the balance relates to cultivation, e.g. for rapeseed or maize, if biofuels are produced from them.
This balancing is quite complex, which is why the EU member states can provide the obligated parties with region-specific standard values. On behalf of the German government, ifeu calculated these values - the so-called NUTS2 values - back in 2010.
The data has since had to be updated. This was carried out by ifeu on behalf of the Federal Environment Agency. The figures are now available to economic operators and have also been officially published by the EU Commission in the form of an implementing regulation.

The original version of the final report is in English, but contains a German summary:

To the final report ("Report on typical GHG emission values for the cultivation of agricultural raw materials for NUTS 2 regions or a more disaggregated level in Germany according to RED II")

Publication of the implementing decisions:

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A32024D2666

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32025D0108