Looks as if the lobbying efforts to have a more prominent position for
pure plant oil will be paid off.
Well done everybody who was involved in pushing this.
Pity the targets ended up voluntary. However this gives a good
foundation for SVO (or PPO) advocates to work from.
Darren Hill
-----Original Message-----
From: Woodland B.V. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 13 March 2003 15:53
To: castan.lako
Subject: biobrandstoffen.jan mulder.doc
Dear Pure Plant Oil Friends,
Please find attached a press release by Dutch MEP Jan Mulder who
together
with his European parliament members has strongly supported us in our
efforts to get P.P.O. officially listed on the list of biofuels for the
forthcoming
European legislation on biofuels for transport purposes.
Quote:
EUROPEAN LIBERALS AND DEMOCRATS
JAN MULDER
MEMBER OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT
Pressrelease Jan Mulder (VVD) (12-03-2003)
European Parliament
supports EU targets for the
use of biofuels for transport
The European Parliament adopted today the European targets that 5,75 %
of the transport fuels
upto the year 2010 should consist of biofuels.
It represents a compromise with the Council of Ministers stating that
these indicative targets only under
specific circumstances can be altered by the memberstates.According to
the agreement already in
2005 , 2 % of the market should consist of biofuels upto 5,75 in 2010.
It took quite some time for a legislation on biofuels.
Liberal/Democrat Jan Mulder : "Biofuels are offering big advantages for
the environment and the
European agriculture. Now finally we are getting somewhere. I would have
appreciated mandatory blending,
but this is a first good step."
Also an amendment of Jan Mulder and his collegues was adopted to
acknowledge Pure Plant Oil as
biofuel.This biofuel is not blended with conventional fuels, but can be
used in pure form in modified
dieselengines.
It is expected , on short notice, that the Council of Ministers will
approve this European directive
at the same time with a directive for voluntary taxexempt on biofuels.
Unquote
regards
The "Aberson's/solaroilsystems/Friesland/Netherlands
Biofuels at Journey to Forever
http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html
Biofuel at WebConX
http://webconx.green-trust.org/2000/biofuel/biofuel.htm
List messages are archived at the Info-Archive at NNYTech:
http://archive.nnytech.net/
To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
