The European Union biofuels directive was adopted in May 2003. It aims to promote the use in transport of fuels made from biomass, as well as other renewable fuels. <\/b><\/p>\n
The directive asks the European Commission to make a progress report before the end of 2006. <\/p>\n
The progress report could be used as the basis for a proposal to amend the directive.<\/p>\n
The Commission set out the broad lines for this review of the directive in its biomass action plan and biofuels strategy. Now, in preparing the progress report, the Commission\u2019s services would like to know the views of public authorities, businesses, non-governmental organisations and other interested parties on the following questions:<\/p>\n
1. Is the objective of promoting biofuels still valid?<\/p>\n
2. The directive sets a reference value of 5.75% for the market share of biofuels in 2010. Will this share be achieved with existing policies and measures? If not, why not?<\/p>\n
3. Looking towards 2010, does the EU system of targets for biofuels need to be adapted? If so, how?<\/p>\n
4. Should a certification system be introduced to avoid using “poor performing\u201d biofuels or give more support to “better performing\u201d ones?<\/p>\n
5. Looking towards 2015 and 2020, should further measures be adopted to promote biofuels?<\/p>\n
6. A number of more technical issues<\/p>\n
The purpose of this consultation document<\/a> is to gather these views. The document explains the questions in more detail.<\/p>\n Responses should be sent to TREN-BIOFUELS-DIRECTIVE-REVIEW@cec.eu.int<\/a> by Monday 10th July 2006<\/b>. This document exists only in English, but responses can be in any Community language.<\/p>\n As part of the review, the Commission\u2019s services may organise consultative meetings on specific topics. No firm decision has been taken. Stakeholders\u2019 contributions<\/p>\n Industry \/ Private Sector<\/b> The European Union biofuels directive was adopted in May 2003. It aims to promote the use in transport of fuels made from biomass, as well<\/b><\/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-14114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14114","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=14114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14114"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=14114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
The questions cover a wide range of topics. Some are primarily political, others focus on scientific, legal or economic aspects. If you have views on some questions and not others, do not hesitate to send an answer covering only these questions.<\/p>\n
Forest Products Biotechnology group at the University of British Columbia<\/a>
Novozymes A\/S2<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"