In Belgium, the European Waste Based and Advanced Biofuels Association EWABA welcomed the 2024 revision of Annex IX as feedstock expansion is a major necessity for the EU biofuel industry at a large. The revision creates wider availability of waste-based and advanced biofuels for all transport modes and somewhat alleviates the existing pressure on different feedstocks used to produce waste-based biofuels.
The potential availability of intermediate crops, including especially cover crops is significant as stated by the Commission in the report used as the basis for the Annex IX review1. In fact, the combined potential volumes of the new proposed feedstocks for part B are well over 300 million tons in 2030, whereas the 1.7% limit currently represents only +6 million tons.
EWABA believes that in order to enable wide deployment of these feedstocks while ensuring that they meet the highest sustainability certification requirements it is critical to set a sound and solid conditionality for intermediate and cover crops.
