On Friday 22 March, the European Biodiesel Board (EBB), an organisation promoting the use of biodiesel in the EU, welcomed the European Commission’s adoption on 14 March of a delegated act revising Annex IX of the Renewable Energy Directive (see EUROPE 13296/32), increasing the number of feedstocks for producing biofuels and biogas.
For the EBB, this is “a crucial step towards meeting the EU’s ambition to integrate renewable energies into the transport sector and contribute to its decarbonisation”.
In particular, the EBB welcomes the inclusion of intermediate crops, such as catch crops and cover crops, and crops grown on severely degraded land, “although a full definition of these two feedstocks is crucial for their proper verification and certification”.
The organisation believes, however, that dividing the regulatory treatment of the same raw materials according to their end use as fuel (aviation or all other modes of transport) deviates from the principles of technological neutrality and equal conditions for competition.
The EBB has indicated that it is in a position to provide its expertise to the Commission on this and other relevant issues.
To see the delegated act: https://aeur.eu/f/bh8
To see the amended annex: https://aeur.eu/f/bh9 (Original version in French by Pauline Denys)