Feb 18, 2025
ACE welcomes legislation to make nationwide E15 year-round permanent
Policy News
Feb 10, 2025
Some UK anti-dumping and anti-subsidy measures will expire in 2026.
Affected UK producers can apply for an expiry review if they want the measures to be kept.
The window for affected domestic producers to apply for an expiry review has now opened.
The period for industry to request an expiry review for the measures listed below runs from January 2025 to end October... [Read More]
Policy News
Feb 7, 2025
The EU Commission slightly lowered its forecast of sunflower seed output in its February estimate for the 2024 oilseed harvest.
According to recent information by the EU Commission, the 2024 EU sunflower seed harvest is seen to total around 8 million tonnes, 7,000 tonnes less than expected at the end of December.
The revision increases the year-on-year decline to... [Read More]
Policy News
Feb 7, 2025
The EU Commission significantly lowered expectations concerning the European 2024 rapeseed harvest at the end of last year, reducing its forecast to approximately 17.2 million tonnes.
Given the smaller crop and an expected rapeseed processing volume of about 23 million tonnes, this means that the EU will rely more on imports.
Most imports go to German oil mills, which... [Read More]
Policy News
Jan 30, 2025
UK Chancellor Rachel Reeves has said Heathrow's third runway could be built and be operational in a decade's time.
The extra runway at Heathrow was one of a number of infrastructure projects announced by the chancellor as part of the government's plans to boost economic growth.
A new runway will help increase capacity at the already over-stretched airport, while additional... [Read More]
Policy News
Jan 28, 2025
The EWABA association has highlighted the need to enable the deployment of cover and intermediate crops in Europe by ensuring the highest sustainability certification requirements.
Increasing decarbonisation targets, especially in the aviation and maritime sectors, will only be achieved with additional volumes of eligible feedstock.
As part of the European Commission’s... [Read More]
Policy News
Jan 17, 2025
New analysis has revealed how private investment and national commitments are driving global growth for sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) – with a total of £14.7 billion (€17.4 billion) invested in SAF projects.
‘The Sustainable Aviation Fuel: Global Investment Analysis’, produced by Innovate UK Business Connect, was developed to map out sources of private investment... [Read More]
Policy News
Jan 16, 2025
The US Department of Energy (DoE), Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO) and the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced $6 million (€5.8 million) in funding for three projects that will advance biofuel development.
The projects are located in New York, California and New Hampshire.
Funded through the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), the projects will support... [Read More]
Policy News
Jan 10, 2025
The European Biodiesel Board (EBB) has welcomed the approval of the definitive duties on biodiesel (HVO and FAME) from China by EU member states.
In July of last year, the EBB obtained provisional anti-dumping duties that are currently in force, but were subject to approval of national governments of EU member states.
This approval was issued on 8 January during the... [Read More]
Policy News
Dec 23, 2024
Germany's sunflower harvest is expected to fall short of last year's figures.
According to preliminary information by the German Federal Statistical Office, German farmers harvested around 134,200 tonnes of sunflower seed in 2024.
This was down just over 21% on the previous year. The decline is mainly based on a 25% decline in production area compared to the previous... [Read More]
Policy News
Dec 16, 2024
The EU Commission has suggested that this year’s soybean harvest in the EU-27 fell slightly short of the previous year's level, despite an expansion in the production area for the 2024 harvest.
The decrease primarily reflects a decline in harvest in Romania.
In its latest estimate, the EU Commission marginally lowered its forecast for soybean production in the EU.... [Read More]
Policy News
Dec 9, 2024
The Trade Remedies Authority (TRA) in the UK has initiated a transition review into the countervailing measure on biodiesel from Indonesia.
This measure was inherited from the EU and is set to expire on 10 December 2024.
The TRA’s review will examine the effectiveness of this measure in protecting UK biodiesel producers from unfair trade practices related to subsidies... [Read More]
Policy News
Nov 29, 2024
Wizz Air has been awarded EMEA’s Environmental Sustainability Airline Group for 2024 at the CAPA Airline Leader Summit & Sustainability Awards in Hong Kong.
This marks the third consecutive year that the airline has received a sustainability award at the annual CAPA Airline Leader Summit.
The CAPA Environmental Sustainability Awards for Excellence recognise airlines,... [Read More]
Policy News
Nov 25, 2024
The UK SAF mandate has been signed into law and will become effective from New Year’s Day.
The SAF mandate will start at 2% of total UK jet fuel demand, increase on a linear basis to 10% in 2030 and then to 22% in 2040.
From 2040, the obligation will remain at 22% until there is greater certainty regarding SAF supply.
The mandate will encourage the innovation of... [Read More]
Policy News
Nov 22, 2024
With a joint appeal to EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, a broad alliance of biofuel industry associations is supporting a recently published fire letter from 16 EU member states.
The letter urged the EU Commission to stop the implementation process.
Like the member states, the associations criticise the lack of a decisive legal basis for implementation.... [Read More]
Policy News
Nov 20, 2024
Soybeans are the most important oilseed crop imported by the European Union, ahead of rapeseed.
In the first four months of the current crop year, the EU imported the highest volume of soybeans since 2021/22.
According to information published by the EU Commission, the EU purchased just over 4 million tonnes of soybeans between July and early November 2024.
This... [Read More]
Policy News
Nov 15, 2024
Poor weather conditions this year have considerably reduced sunflower yields across the EU.
Notwithstanding an expansion in production area, total output remains well below previous years.
According to EU Commission estimates, EU sunflower seed production in 2024 amounted to just over 8.1 million tonnes.
This represents a 17% drop from 2023 and is also the smallest... [Read More]
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