Drawing up a strict definition of ‘used cooking oil’ as a permitted feedstock for advanced agrofuels

4.7.2017

Question for written answer E-004535-17
to the Commission
Rule 130
Christine Revault D'Allonnes Bonnefoy (S&D)

In its proposed recast of the directive on the promotion of the use of energy from renewable sources, the Commission sets out an obligation for fuel suppliers to ‘include a minimum share of energy from advanced [transport] biofuels and other biofuels and biogas [intended for use in transport] produced from feedstock listed in Annex IX’. However, in part B of Annex IX it adds a further feedstock, ‘Used cooking oil’.

1. Is there any definition of the ‘used cooking oil’ in question?

2. Has the Commission taken into account that the failure to provide a more exact definition in the proposal for a directive might create a legal loophole? If so, how will it avert the risk that the catch-all term ‘used cooking oil’ might be taken to include feedstocks which are otherwise treated as less advanced agrofuels and therefore not supported so strongly within the legislative framework?