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  • Glossary item | Last updated: 04 Jan 2021

Non-elementary (or complex) flows

In the emission inventory, non-elementary flows include all the inputs (e.g. electricity, materials, transport processes) and outputs (e.g. waste, by-products) in a system that needs further modelling efforts to be transformed into elementary flows.

EC, 2013, Commission Recommendation of 9 April 2013 on the use of common methods to measure and communicate the life cycle environmental performance of products and organisations. OJ L124, 04.05.2013, pp. 1-210.

Source category: EC Policy Documents