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News archive - Biomass consultation

Deadline: September 30, 2008

The EC is inviting all stakeholders (esp. energy companies, project developers, equipment manufacturers, governmental services, the agricultural and forest industry and environmental NGOs) to help identify the need to develop sustainability criteria for biomass for energy purposes, at EU level.

The consultation is aimed at providing the EC with stakeholder views on the need for a biomass sustainability scheme and criteria to be developed to ensure that the use of biomass for energy purposes avoids environmental risks. It will remain open until September 30, 2008.

The consultation is taking place in the context of the EU's package on energy and climate change related proposals. It includes a draft directivve to promote renewable energies and increase it's share of renewable energies to 20 per cent by 2020.

Further information on the consultation and online questionaire: http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/energy_transport/home/consultation/energy_en.htm

Recent press releases on the EU energy policy: http://europa.eu/rapid/

Entry created by Elke Dall on August 4, 2008
Modified on August 4, 2008

Western Balkans Info Hub - powered by "Policy Answers" - is funded by the European Commission through the Horizon Europe project "R&I policy making, implementation and support in the Western Balkans", grant agreement: 10105887. The portal builds upon previous initiatives, such as for instance WBC-RTI.INFO and WBC-INCO.NET, which were funded under different Framework Programmes (FP) for Research and Technological Development (RTD) of the European Commission and other contracts.

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