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documentation of the renewable quality of biomethane crossing the border
inside the gas grid. Once a European (or at least bilateral) standard for
tracking cross-border trade is established, customs authorities will be able to
accept this as usual procedure. An increasing need for bilateral trade
through existing mass balancing schemes is apparent from inside and
outside the German market and also in the requests to Biogasregister
Deutschland. The challenge will be the architecture of the international mass
balancing standard and one question that needs to be answered is whether it
is favorable to create a pan-European register or whether it is more efficient
to start with bilateral exchange between equal national registers.
Straightening of differences in different nations' situations is another
important issue to be solved in the course of internationalization. The
standard must be open to new countries' markets with their own evolving
framework. Harmonization of more individual mass balancing systems
might become more complex and will call for a general European

regulation.

19.6 Sources of further information and advice
www.biogaspartner.de
www.biogasregister.de
www.greengasgrids.eu

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