WTO largely supports EU in dispute panel with Indonesia over palm oil biodiesel

In Switzerland, Hydrocarbon Processing reports the World Trade Organization’s panel brought by Indonesia against the European Union for its alleged trade discrimination against Indonesian palm oil-based biofuel largely supported the EU, but not entirely. The three-person panel ruled that the EU’s logic beyond labeling palm oil as “high risk” from a GHG limiting perspective was reasonable but it didn’t agree with the way the EU had gone about preparing, publishing or administering the rules, which lacked transparency.