Annex IX Part A and Part B feedstock lists

The directive limits the energy share Part B fuels may count, the percentage written in law, implemented by country, the ceiling the market trades under. The cap is a number with consequences.

Classification follows the entry definitions, processing or blending changing what the material is, the entry reading changing with it. Status is a snapshot, the chain maintains it.

The entries name their materials precisely, agricultural residues and processing byproducts populating Part A, the list read like legislation because it is. Sugar's leftovers have lawyers too.

Fuel from Part A feedstocks, the no-food list, counting toward the advanced quota, the word being law not marketing. Advanced is the EU's adjective with a bank account.

Official journals, scheme bulletins and market gossip ranked in that order, the changes repricing cargoes before the ink dries. The list is a price list in disguise.

No, each entry sits in one part only, and the classification follows the entry text, which is why entry wording is read like contract language. The parts are shelves, not moods.

The legislator, through amendments to the renewable energy directive, with proposals, lobbying and public steps, a political calendar we track because it reprices cargoes. Annex IX is law, and law moves slowly, then suddenly.

Member states implement within the European framework, some adding national interpretations or restrictions on top, so the destination's reading matters as much as the list. The map of Europe is a map of footnotes.

Part B, with the caps and double counting story that follows, the most famous resident of that shelf. Every collector's margin is partly a policy document they never read.

Both are non-product streams, waste being what someone discards and residue what a process leaves behind, with the entries naming which they mean. The words are legal categories, not synonyms, and audits price the difference.

The list of feedstocks the legislator considers advanced: materials no one eats and few want, from agricultural residues to waste oils and solvents, which count toward the advanced fuel targets without the Part B caps. It is a political list, revised by amendment, and we read it as a price list in disguise.

Yes, several wood and forestry residue streams sit in Part A, with the usual condition that the detail of the entry matches the actual material. Wood is also where sustainability rules around forestry stack on top, so the classification is only the first of the questions.

Ask them, because those two words are used for different things and getting it wrong holds up a cargo. EUR.1 is a movement certificate used to claim preferential origin under a trade agreement, and it has nothing to do with sustainability. "Annex 9" is ambiguous: people use it for evidence that the feedstock sits on the Annex IX list, and people also use it for the waste shipment paperwork, whose annexes are numbered differently again. We have seen a buyer ask this question about a contract they had already approved, which tells you how common the confusion is. Get the document named exactly, in writing, before you agree the payment terms.

Not by asserting it. The evidence sits in the chain: the certificate scope of the party that produced it, the Sustainability Declaration that travels with the consignment, and the audit trail behind both. A buyer's compliance desk books against the declaration, so that document has to carry the category and be consistent with the certificate behind it. See Proof of Sustainability for what has to be on it. If your material is genuinely eligible but the paperwork does not show it, the problem is fixable; if the chain has a gap, it usually is not fixable after the fact.

No, and they answer different questions. Annex IX decides what a fuel can be counted as under the Renewable Energy Directive. A waste code comes from waste legislation and decides how the material may be moved and handled. A parcel can need both, and some member states lead with the waste code: on the Polish market it is regularly the first thing a buyer asks about, before certification comes up at all. If a counterparty asks for a waste code and you answer with an Annex IX category, you have not answered the question.

No, and that is a change worth checking your pricing against. RED III made double counting a member state choice, and the two historically largest markets for double-counted volumes, the Netherlands and Germany, have dropped the multiplier in their transposition. In those markets an Annex IX Part A claim has to earn its value on the market alone, so check the transposition in the member state of consumption rather than assuming the multiplier from older guidance.

Yes. The lists are one and the same, written three ways: Annex IX Part A under Directive (EU) 2018/2001 (RED II), carried over into RED III, Directive (EU) 2023/2413, and often written as Annex 9A or Annex 9 Part A in software, permits and older correspondence. Part B is the same list that gets called Annex 9B. If a counterparty argues about the number instead of the entry, they are arguing about stationery. What matters is the exact entry letter, and the certification behind it, because that is what decides whether double counting applies in your member state.

Part A lists advanced feedstocks, mostly lignocellulosic material, wastes and residues, and counts towards the advanced sub-target. Part B contains only two entries, used cooking oil and category 1 and 2 animal fats, and biofuels from Part B are capped at 1.7 % of transport energy per member state. The split determines which target a fuel serves and therefore what it is worth.

Yes. Crude glycerine appears in Annex IX Part A, at point (i) in Directive (EU) 2018/2001. That places it in the advanced category rather than the capped Part B category, which is a meaningful commercial difference. Check the current consolidated text for the applicable letter, because Annex IX has been amended.

Palm oil mill effluent and empty palm fruit bunches appear in Annex IX Part A, at point (g) in Directive (EU) 2018/2001. Because the Annex has been amended since, confirm the current letter before writing it into a contract, and confirm how the destination member state actually treats POME: national implementations diverge.

No. Part B covers animal fats classified as categories 1 and 2 under Regulation (EC) No 1069/2009. Category 3 is treated differently, which has a direct effect on value and should be settled before pricing a term contract.

That now depends on the member state. Under RED III national implementations diverge, and several markets including the Netherlands and Germany have moved away from multipliers. The 1.7 % Part B cap is a separate matter from any multiplier, and confusing the two produces badly wrong netback calculations.

Partly, and it is the most interesting case in the list. A tyre is part natural rubber and part synthetic, so the oil carries biogenic and fossil carbon together. Under RED III the biogenic fraction is treated as an advanced biofuel aligned with Annex IX Part A, while the fossil fraction can go the recycled carbon fuel route. One cargo, two frameworks, with the split established by radiocarbon analysis.

Annex IX to Directive (EU) 2018/2001, as amended, including by Directive (EU) 2023/2413. The list above is reproduced for orientation. For anything you are contracting on, use the current consolidated text in the Official Journal.