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Question No 5 by Brian Crowley (H-0432/08)

Subject: Dissolution of the EU’s 10% biofuel target

A report currently being discussed in Parliament (PE 405.949) is calling for the EU’s 10% biofuel target to be reduced or abandoned altogether because of the impact on wildlife, people and world food supplies. Can the Council comment on whether the 10% target agreed in March 2007 is under threat and whether this link between rising food prices and increased biofuel production is an artificial one?