In a document dated 25 January obtained by EUROPE, the French Presidency of the Council of the European Union consulted Member States on the provisions relating to biomass in the framework of the revision of the EU Renewable Energy Directive (2018/2001) (RED II).
The Presidency’s first question concerns whether or not there is a need for criteria other than those proposed by the European Commission concerning the application of the principle of the cascading use of biomass (the principle...