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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10690

18 September 2012
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SECTORAL POLICIES / (ae) energy
EU responds to Oxfam on biofuels

Nicosia, 17/09/2012 (Agence Europe) - Responding to an attack by the NGO Oxfam against the EU policy on biofuels, the Commission spoke out clearly on Monday 17 September.

“It is wrong to believe that we are pushing food-based biofuels. In our upcoming proposal for new legislation, we do exactly the contrary. We limit them to the current consumption level, that is 5% up to 2020”, Commissioners Connie Hedegaard (Climate) and Gunter Oettinger (Energy) said on Monday, in a press release...

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