Quality and Greenhouse Gas Intensities of Transport Fuels in the EU in 2017 Monitoring Under the Fuel Quality Directive in 2017 (2018 Reporting)
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EEA Report No 05/2019 Quality and greenhouse gas intensities of transport fuels in the EU in 2017 Monitoring under the Fuel Quality Directive in 2017 (2018 reporting) ISSN 1977-8449 1994-2019 EEA Report No 05/2019 Quality and greenhouse gas intensities of transport fuels in the EU in 2017 Monitoring under the Fuel Quality Directive in 2017 (2018 reporting) 1994-2019 Cover photo: © Stephanie Schilling Legal notice The contents of this publication do not necessarily reflect the official opinions of the European Commission or other institutions of the European Union. Neither the European Environment Agency nor any person or company acting on behalf of the Agency is responsible for the use that may be made of the information contained in this report. Copyright notice © European Environment Agency, 2019 Reproduction is authorised provided the source is acknowledged. More information on the European Union is available on the Internet (http://europa.eu). Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union, 2019 ISBN 978-92-9480-075-6 ISSN 1977-8449 doi:10.2800/773807 European Environment Agency Kongens Nytorv 6 1050 Copenhagen K Denmark Tel.: +45 33 36 71 00 Web: eea.europa.eu Enquiries: eea.europa.eu/enquiries Contents Acknowledgements .................................................................................................................... 5 Executive summary .................................................................................................................... 6 1 Introduction ........................................................................................................................... 9 2 Reporting by European Union Member States ................................................................ 11 2.1 Reporting requirements .......................................................................................................11 2.2 Parameters reported in accordance with Article 7a .........................................................11 2.3 Parameters reported in accordance with Article 8 ...........................................................12 3 Reductions in greenhouse gas emissions (Article 7a)..................................................... 17 3.1 Fossil fuel and biofuel consumption ...................................................................................17 3.2 Fuel quantities purchased ....................................................................................................17 3.3 Biofuel production pathways and feedstock used ............................................................20 3.4 Electricity consumption ........................................................................................................22 3.5 Greenhouse gas emissions and distance to 2020 target .................................................23 3.6 Indirect land use change reporting .....................................................................................24 3.7 Upstream emission reductions ...........................................................................................25 3.8 Greenhouse gas emission savings by substituting fossil fuels with biofuels 25 3.9 Quality of Member States' reporting in 2017 ....................................................................27 4 Quality of fuels (Article 8) ................................................................................................... 28 4.1 Fuel sales ................................................................................................................................28 4.2 Use of regulated biocomponents ........................................................................................30 4.3 Monitoring systems and sampling methods .....................................................................31 4.4 Exceedances of fuel quality limits .......................................................................................33 4.5 Quality of Member States' reporting in 2017 ....................................................................34 5 Consistency between fuel volumes reported under Article 7a and Article 8 35 6 Summary of Member States' submissions ....................................................................... 37 6.1 Austria .....................................................................................................................................37 6.2 Belgium ...................................................................................................................................39 6.3 Bulgaria ...................................................................................................................................41 6.4 Croatia ....................................................................................................................................42 6.5 Cyprus .....................................................................................................................................44 Quality and greenhouse gas intensities of transport fuels in the EU in 2017 3 6.6 Czechia ....................................................................................................................................45 6.7 Denmark .................................................................................................................................47 6.8 Estonia ....................................................................................................................................50 6.9 Finland ....................................................................................................................................51 6.10 France .....................................................................................................................................53 6.11 Germany .................................................................................................................................55 6.12 Greece .....................................................................................................................................58 6.13 Hungary ..................................................................................................................................59 6.14 Iceland ....................................................................................................................................61 6.15 Ireland .....................................................................................................................................62 6.16 Italy ..........................................................................................................................................63 6.17 Latvia .......................................................................................................................................65 6.18 Lithuania .................................................................................................................................67 6.19 Luxembourg ...........................................................................................................................69 6.20 Malta .......................................................................................................................................71 6.21 Netherlands ...........................................................................................................................72 6.22 Poland .....................................................................................................................................73 6.23 Portugal ..................................................................................................................................75 6.24 Slovakia ...................................................................................................................................77 6.25 Slovenia ..................................................................................................................................79 6.26 Spain .......................................................................................................................................80 6.27 Sweden ...................................................................................................................................82 6.28 United Kingdom .....................................................................................................................84 Abbreviations, symbols and units .......................................................................................... 86 References ................................................................................................................................. 89 Annex 1 ...................................................................................................................................... 90 4 Quality and greenhouse gas intensities of transport fuels in the EU in 2017 Acknowledgements Acknowledgements This report was prepared for the European The EEA project manager was Stephanie Schilling. Environment Agency (EEA) by its European Topic The EEA acknowledges comments received on Centre for Air Pollution and Climate Change the draft report from the European Commission's Mitigation (ETC/ACM). The authors of the report were Directorate-General for Climate Action and from Giorgos Mellios and George Patias (ETC/ACM partner the European Environment Information and Emisia SA, Greece). Observation Network (Eionet). Quality and greenhouse gas intensities of transport fuels in the EU in 2017 5 Executive summary Executive