COMMISSION DELEGATED REGULATION (EU) …/... supplementing Directive (EU) 2024/1788 of the European Parliament and of the Council by specifying a methodology for assessing greenhouse gas emissions sa...

Ref. Ares(2024)6848064 - 27/09/2024 EUROPEAN COMMISSION Brussels, XXX […](2024) XXX draft COMMISSION DELEGATED REGULATION (EU) …/... of XXX supplementing Directive (EU) 2024/1788 of the European Parliament and of the Council by specifying a methodology for assessing greenhouse gas emissions savings from lowcarbon fuels This draft has not been adopted or endorsed by the European Commission. Any views expressed are the preliminary views of the Commission services and may not in any circumstances be regarded as stating an official position of the Commission. EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM 1. CONTEXT OF THE DELEGATED ACT Directive (EU) 2024/1788 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 June 2024 on common rules for the internal markets for renewable gas, natural gas and hydrogen (‘the Directive’) requires the Commission to specify a methodology for assessing greenhouse gas emissions savings from low-carbon fuels. The accounting methodology for low-carbon fuels should take into account full life cycle emissions and indirect emissions resulting from the diversion of rigid inputs from producing low-carbon fuels as well as methane upstream emissions and actual carbon capture rates. To ensure the required consistency, the methodology applies similar approaches as the methodology set out in Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2023/1185 for assessing greenhouse gas emissions savings from renewable fuels of non-biological origin and from recycled...