Consultations on biofuels, sustainability and energy strategy
Consultation on the update to the EBTP SRA/SDD
A consultation on the Update to the EBTP Strategic Research Agenda and Strategy Deployment Document SRA/SDD commenced on 19th April 2010 and continued until 31 May 2010.
Thank you for the comments and recommendations received from stakeholders and members of the public.
Links to the EBTP SRA Update 2010 (published July 2010) and the original EBTP SRA/SDD (published January 2008) and further information can be found on the SRA/SDD page.
Other consultations
The EBTP also actively contributes to EU consultations on biofuels, sustainability and energy strategy. Below are summary details of:
- EBTP consultation and acitivities on the availability and sustainability of feedstocks for advanced biofuels
- Recent consultations on biofuels and energy strategy launched by the EC and related ETPs
EBTP Consultation on the availability and sustainability of feedstocks for advanced biofuels
In cooperation with the European Commission and other organisations, EBTP WG1 (Biomass) and WG4 (Sustainability) regularly contribute to consultation and activities on availability and sustainability of feedstocks for production of advanced biofuels, such as the ongoing consultation on Indirect Land Use Change (ILUC).
In addition, WG1 and WG4 are currently drafting revised information on availability and sustainability issues for the updated version of the EBTP SRA/SD, which is due to be published in 2010 (see above).
Links and background information on various aspects of Biofuels and Sustainability issues are available on the 'Biofuels Information' section of this website.
Summaries and links to various reports on sustainability are including in the reports section.
European Consultations on biofuels, sustainabiltiy and energy strategy
Recent consultations
Towards a new Energy Strategy for Europe 2011-2020 - Consultation 07.05.2010 - 02.07.2010
The overall goal of European energy policy is to ensure that consumers and enterprises obtain safe, secure, sustainable and low-carbon energy at affordable and competitive prices. The challenges of global energy security and energy geopolitics, slow progress in combating climate change at the global level, the urge to recover on growth and jobs in the EU and the need to invest in tomorrow's energy networks call for a new Energy Strategy to further deliver on those objectives.
Completing the internal energy market, achieving energy savings and promoting low-carbon innovation are the main vectors to reach the objectives of competitiveness, sustainability and security of supply. An open global business climate and a more coherent and effective approach to the EU external energy relations will also help us to reach our objectives.
Submissions are to be sent to ENER-ACTION-PLAN by 2 July 2010.
A public
consultation on Biodiverse grassland, biofuels and bioliquids ran
from
14.12.2009 - 08.02.2010
The sustainability requirements of the Directive 2009/28/EC on the promotion of the use of energy from renewable sources establish that raw materials used for the production of biofuels and bioliquids may not be produced on land that had the status of highly biodiverse grassland in or after January 2008. The objective of the consultation is to seek views on possible approaches to define the criteria and ranges of highly biodiverse grasslands. This will feed into the drafting of a Commission Decision on the establishment of criteria and ranges of highly biodiverse grasslands for the purpose of Directive 2009/28/EC.
The Commission is required to establish such criteria and ranges according to Article 17(3)c of the Directive 2009/28/EC.
There is a similar requirement, as far as biofuels are concerned, in the Fuel Quality Directive [98/70/EC]
An EC public consultation on the future EU 2020 strategy ran from 24.11.2009 to 15.01.2010. Comments were invited from all stakeholders.
"In presenting his programme for the new Commission, President Barroso set out his vision for where the European Union should be in 2020. He believes that the exit from the current crisis should be the point of entry into a new sustainable social market economy, a smarter, greener economy where our prosperity will result from innovation and from using resources better, and where knowledge will be the key input. To make this transformation happen, Europe needs a common agenda: the EU 2020 strategy.
This strategy should enable the EU to make a full recovery from the crisis,
while speeding up the move towards a smart and green economy. EU 2020 will
build on the successes obtained by the Lisbon strategy since its 2005 relaunch,
which focused on growth and jobs, but will also address some of the Lisbon
strategy's shortcomings.
The Commission intends to present a formal proposal for the EU 2020 strategy early next year, with a view to the EU's Heads of State and government adopting the strategy at their spring 2010 meeting. In the meantime, the Commission would like to hear your views on some suggested broad policy considerations for the future EU2020 strategy."
Recent consultations
The Water Supply and Sanitation Technology Platform WssTP recently launched a consultation on the review of the WssTP Strategic Research Agenda (727 Kb PDF), which covers among other topics the use of water by agriculture and industry. The closing date for responses was 14 December 2009.