The EU ETS final report will be voted in plenary on 7 June. The text deletes the 95% threshold as advocated by Bioenergy Europe. The EED vote instead, is likely to be postponed to July or after the summer holidays. For more information, please contact Ennio Prizzi.
Between 30 May and 5 June, the 2022 edition of the EU Green Week is taking place in Brussels and across the EU. More than 270 partner events, including one from Bioenergy Europe, are organised within the Green Week. A detailed list of all events can be found here.
Following the release of the REPowerEU plan by the European Commission last week, Bioenergy Europe has published a press release stressing that even though bioenergy is acknowledged as the main renewable source in the EU, the plan lacks clear targets and additional measures to enhance the further deployment of our sector. For more information, please contact Irene di Padua.
The European Commission has released a proposal (REDIV) to amend the Renewable Energy Directive (RED), Energy Performance in Buildings Directive (EPBD), and the Energy Efficiency Directive (EED) in order to speed up the permitting process for renewable energy projects. To do this, REDIV creates a new definition of a ’renewables go-to area’. Once again, “biomass combustion plants” are explicitly excluded from this definition and its application in Article 16a “Permit-granting process in renewables go-to areas”. For more information, please contact Daniel Reinemann.
On 24 May, Bioenergy Europe participated in the Hiilensidonta 2022 event, organized by Bioenergia ry in Finland and gave a presentation on the policy framework surrounding carbon removal technologies. For more information, please contact Daniel Reinemann.
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Bioenergy Europe sent an open letter to President Von der Leyen, Vice-President Timmermans and other high-level EU representatives, urging them to properly include bioenergy in the REPowerEU Communication. The letter has been signed by more than 518 CEOs and high-level representatives from the bioenergy value-chain. The strategy is expected to be published on 18 May and according to a leaked draft version bioenergy is now included. However, no specific target was mentioned. For more information, please contact Irene di Padua.
The tabled amendments to the draft report of the Deforestation and Forest Degradation Regulation have been released. There were 1055 amendments tabled which can be found with the following links: amendments 99 – 234, amendments 235 – 554, amendments 555 – 877, amendments 878 – 898, amendments 899 – 1055. For more information, please contact Daniel Reinemann.
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The Agriculture and Rural Development Committee met on 20 April to vote on the REDIII opinion and to discuss the New EU Forest Strategy (see full agenda). Much of the discussion focused on the multifunctionality of forests and the subsidiarity principle (video broadcast). A committee vote is expected on 12 July and the Council has already released its Conclusions on the New EU Forest Strategy back in November. For more information, please contact Daniel Reinemann.
