{"id":14042,"date":"2006-01-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-11T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bio-based.eu\/news\/index.php?startid=20060112-04n"},"modified":"2006-01-12T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-01-11T22:00:00","slug":"belgium-tax-benefits-coming-for-biofuels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/belgium-tax-benefits-coming-for-biofuels\/","title":{"rendered":"Belgium: Tax benefits coming for biofuels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>BRUSSELS \u2013 Belgium will soon grant tax benefits for the use of biofuels and bioethanols, Finance Minister Didier Reynders announced on Wednesday.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Speaking alongside Agriculture Minster Sabine Laruelle at the opening of a car salon, Reynders said the European Commission had given its go ahead for the scheme at the end of December.<\/p>\n<p>The aim of the scheme will be to gradually introduce the use of alcohol-based biofuels and bioethanols for vehicles in Belgium, replacing traditional diesel or unleaded fuels.<\/p>\n<p>Belgium had to notify the European Commission as the tax break falls under a state aid scheme, requiring EU approval that it does not upset the internal market.<\/p>\n<p>EU backing for the new tax system was boosted by a new European law on biocarburants that came into force last July to encourage the manufacture of more environmentally friendly fuels in Europe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><b>BRUSSELS &ndash; Belgium will soon grant tax benefits for the use of biofuels and bioethanols, Finance Minister Didier Reynders announced on Wednesday.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Speaking alongside<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","nova_meta_subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572],"tags":[],"supplier":[],"class_list":["post-14042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14042\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14042"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=14042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}