MPOC: EU should suspend regulation until elements proposed are clear, sound
19 March 2019
The suspension should be in effect until all elements of the proposed regime are “clear, properly defined, scientifically based, factually evidenced, non-discriminatory and not creating unnecessary obstacles to international trade,” it said in a legal and technical assessment report on the delegated act.
The council said the EU failed to conduct a proper impact assessment on the potential impacts of RED II on the EU market and on trade, and the report on production expansion of relevant food and feed crops that underlay RED II admitted that the available data had been selectively chosen or “assumed” due to the unavailability of actual data.
The EC had calculated the annual net increase of global production and the annual net increase of harvested area for palm oil during that reference period to be at 5.1 per cent and 4.0 per cent, respectively — higher than other main biofuel feedstock. Furthermore, the council said, the EU’s modelling failed to take into account the efficiency and productivity of the various crops. “Palm oil has greatly increased its productivity over the years, yet this is not accounted for,” it noted.
Under the delegated act, biofuels may only be certified as low ILUC-risk fuels if they meet criteria such as having been produced from additional feedstock obtained through “additionality measures” .
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