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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11676

26 November 2016
SECTORAL POLICIES / Energy
Commission wants to limit share of first-generation bio-fuels to 3.8% by 2020
Brussels, 25/11/2016 (Agence Europe)

In the framework of its proposed revision of the 2009 directive on renewable energies and its strategy for bio-energies, which it is to present on Wednesday 30 November as part of a broad package of measures to promote the energy transition, the Commission is to propose a gradual but drastic reduction in the share of first-generation bio-fuels in the consumption of fuels in the transport sector between 2020 and 2030, with this share to be reduced from 7% to 3.8% by the end of this period.

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