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16/07/2008
Public consultation on the preparation of a report on requirements for a sustainability scheme for energy uses of biomass
Contributions will be sent at latest on 30/09/2008

Overview

Renewable Energy Sectors

FP6 Demonstration Projects

Policy and Legislation

European Stategic Energy Technology Plan (SET Plan)

Biomass Action Plan

Biofuels Standards

Publications

Public consultations

Events

The video (3'55”)
20% renewable energy by 2020

Public Consultations

| Sustainability scheme for energy uses of biomass

| EU Action to promote Offshore Wind Energy (closed)

| Biofuel issues in the new legislation on the promotion of renewable energy (closed)

| Identification of administrative and grid barriers to the promotion of electricity from Renewable Energy Sources (RES-E) (closed)
| The European Strategic Energy Technology Plan (SET-Plan) (closed)
| Promotion of Heating and Cooling from Renewable Energies (results)
| Biomass Action Plan (results)
| Review of Biofuels Directive (results)

Give us your opinion

Public consultation "Biofuel issues in the new legislation on the promotion of renewable energy"

Consultation paper

Consultation Now Closed

The responses received are currently being analysed and we will shortly publish a report with the findings of the consultation

Stakeholders’ contributions

On 10 January 2007 the European Commission made proposals for a new Energy Policy for Europe. These included a renewable energy roadmap proposing:

a binding 20% target for the overall share of renewable energy in 2020 – the effort to be shared in an appropriate way between Member States;
a binding 10% target for the share of biofuels in petrol and diesel in each Member State in 2020, to be accompanied by the introduction of a sustainability scheme for biofuels.

The Commission is now drafting proposals to incorporate these targets in legislation.

In doing so, the Commission will take into account the views of stakeholders as expressed in last year's consultation exercises on heating and cooling and biofuels and the recent consultation exercise on administrative obstacles to the increased use of renewable energy in electricity generation.

The present consultation document complements those exercises. The Commission would like to know the views of public authorities, businesses, non-governmental organisations and other interested parties on the following questions:

How should a biofuel sustainability system be designed?
How should overall effects on land use be monitored?
How should the use of second-generation biofuels be encouraged?
What further action is needed to make it possible to achieve a 10% biofuel share?

The rest of the document explains the questions in more detail.

Stakeholders’ contributions

Non-Governmental Organisations

Agence de l'Environnement et de la Maîtrise de l'Energie (ADEME)

Agence Moteur Nature

Alliance of Synthetic Fuels in Europe (ASFE)

ALTRAN

Arbeitsgemeinschaft Flüssige Biokraftstoffe

ARGE Kompost & Biogas

Association des Amidonniers et Féculiers (AAF)

Association of alcohol and alcoholic beverages excise tax payers (Slovak Rep.)

Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO)

Baltic Sea Commission's Energy Working Group (BSC)

Biofuelwatch

Bioethanol for Sustainable Transport BEST

Dutch Product Board for Margarine, Fats and Oils (MVO)

Energie Durable En Normandie EDEN

Environmental Industries Commission

Environmental Protection Encouragement Agency (EPEA)

European Centre for Nature Conservation (ECNC)

European Confederation of Maize Production (CEMP)

European Petroleum Industry Association EUROPIA

Filière Française des Huiles et Protéines Végétales PROLEA

Food and Drink Federation

Friends of Earth Europe

Friends of the Earth Malaysia

Global Environment Centre (GEC)

Global Justice Ecology Project

Greenpeace

GreenSpeed and Pause.ForThought

GRIAN – Greenhouse Ireland Action Network
Haffenergie (EN version)

INFORSE-Europe

International Risk Governance Council

Joint contribution::
AEFJN - Africa Europe Faith,
Justice Network

Joint contribution::
         UN Environment Programme UNEP,
         Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO,
         United Nations Development Programme UNDP,
         United Nations Human Settlements Programme UN-HABITAT,
         United Nations Industrial Development Organization UNIDO,
         World Health Organization WHO

Joint contribution:
         Africa Biodiversity Network,
         Melca Mahiber,
         Envirocare,
         Climate and Development Initiatives,
         Nature Tropicale

Joint contribution:
         BirdLife International,
         European Environmental Bureau (EEB),
         Transport and Environment Network (T&E)

Legambiente

Malaysian Palm Oil Association (MPOA)

Methanol Institute

Mitglied des Vorstands der Hessischen Forschungsakademie HAL

NOAH-Friends of the Earth Denmark
Northeast Biofuels
Northern Ireland Environment Link (NIEL)

PanEco

Pôle de Compétitivité Industries et AgroRessources (IAR)

REFUEL

Réseau Action Climat-France

Sahabat Alam Malaysia - Friends of the Earth Malaysia (SAM-FOE)

Sauvons Le Climat (SLC)