BI(16)4337
A SUSTAINABLE BIOENERGY POLICY
POST 2020
contribution of the agricultural sector
and perspectives for advanced
biofuels & biogas
OVERVIEW
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How do you see the role of advanced biofuels by
2030?
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What is necessary to ensure their development?
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What limitations do you see?
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How can biogas contribute to our objectives on
renewable energy and climate change by 2030?
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What environmental considerations should be
taken into account when developing agriculture
sector contributions to bioenergy uses in the EU?
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1. How do you see the role of advanced
biofuels by 2030?
 Advanced biofuels have an important role to play
in improving the entire utilization of arable crops
 COPA & COGECA call for an additional target for
advanced biofuels of at least 3.5%
 Arable crops as resources for advanced biofuels
require unlimited use of all crop ingredients for
food, feed, energy and non food
By 2030
Advanced biofuels have an additional and growing
role to play
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Why?
 Advanced biofuels can improve the competitiveness
of arable crops by creating additional market outlets
for agricultural residues
 HOWEVER
The competitiveness of arable crops
requires unrestricted access to all market outlets
including biofuels from starch, sugar and fatty acids
Stable political and legal conditions without any
limitations to any market outlets are vital
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One more thing…
Biofuels are co-products of EU protein feed
production
 EU arable crops are the most efficient source worldwide
of vegetable protein provided that market outlets exist
for the extracted starches, sugars and fatty acids e.g.:
 Bioethanol: For every litre 1 to 1.2 kg of protein feed are produced
 Biodiesel: 60% of rapeseed grain is turned into meal and 40% into oil
 Protein-rich feed made from arable crops in the EU
already substitutes 4 to 5 million hectares of soya. It
could replace 12.2 mil hectares of soya which equates to
11% of global soya surface area, estimated to be 110.6 mil
hectares in 2025
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and still one more thing…
Advanced biofuels have an important role to
play in the bioeconomy
HOWEVER
The bioeconomy only works as a:
 COHERENT SYSTEM without arbitrary limits!
 SUSTAINABLE SYSTEM with appropriate legal and
political conditions for all products!
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2. What is necessary to ensure the
development of biofuels?
 Improved support for research, technical
development and demonstration of advanced
biofuels
 Secure, fair and long term stable legal and political
conditions for European agriculture
 Legally binding targets in the FQD and RED at EU level
 ETS being unable to provide specific support to advanced
biofuels is not an option for the road transportation
sector
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3. What limitations do you see?
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Advanced biofuels must compete on markets dominated
by fossil fuels
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For advanced biofuels to be competitive, regulation that
provides fair competition on fuel markets is required to
drive back the market dominance of fossil fuels
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Advanced biofuels need technology specific incentives
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Multiple counting that divides the share of advanced
biofuels by 2 to 5 must be removed
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4. How can biogas contribute to the EU
objectives on climate and energy by 2030?
 Biogas used for heat and power contributes to the
EU’s 27% RES target
 Biomethane from livestock manure and wastes used
as biofuels contributes to the 0.5% national targets
for advanced biofuels by 2020
 Greater consistency needed between various policy areas:
climate and energy, circular economy, bioeconomy,
agriculture
 Heat and cooling from EU biomass must be promoted to a
greater extend
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5. What environmental considerations to take into
account when developing further agriculture
contributions to bioenergy?
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The Common Agricultural Policy ensures a high level of
environmental performance (via cross-compliance)
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Biomass from agricultural holdings eligible for the CAP
complies with sustainability criteria
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Cross-compliance and the additional sustainability
criteria for biofuels must be the reference for all
renewable energy sources in transportation
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GHG FQD reduction targets higher than 6% must be
implemented in all EU MS from 2020 onwards
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Sustainability criteria for bioenergy must be based on
measured and validated data
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Thank you for your attention
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