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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) ep/agriculture

Report on green energies calls for full use of biogas potential

Brussels, 30/01/2008 (Agence Europe) - The European Parliament's agriculture committee is calling on the European Commission and member states to use the “enormous” potential of biogas from agricultural waste. To this end, specific legislation and adapted financial incentives will be required. The own initiative report of Csaba Sándor Tabajdi (PES, Hungary) on this theme was adopted on Tuesday 29 January (33 votes for, none against, with 1 abstention) by the agriculture committee. The...

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