UFOP publishes 15th updated edition of ‘Biodiesel & Co. 2023/2024’ status report

Berlin, 1 October 2024: The 15th edition of the UFOP status report ‘Biodiesel & CO’, which has been updated over time, provides information on the most important legal regulations at European and national level for the ‘promotion’ of biofuels. The report begins with a critical review of the coalition government's energy policy in the context of Russia's war against Ukraine. It critically scrutinises the promotion of electrification to the neglect of the physically available biofuel potential. 

It examines the critical discussion on the topic of ‘phasing out combustion engines’ and, in view of the impending failure to meet the 2030 target, the failure of this government to develop a fuel strategy to mobilise the sustainably available potential of biofuels in a timely manner. In this context, the National Biomass Strategy (NABIS) is scrutinised in the context of the USA's biomass strategy.

Other topics include issues and challenges relating to fraud prevention for imports of biodiesel or HVO and waste oils. The report nevertheless emphasises the fundamentally strategic and exemplary importance of the GHG quota legislation as a legal regulation geared towards greenhouse gas efficiency in competition. The corresponding effects in the raw material composition of biofuels, which are counted towards the quota obligation, are shown graphically and in detail in the statistical appendix. The statistical appendix shows the development of national, European and global production and consumption of biodiesel and HVO as well as production capacities.

The status report is available for download 

UFOP takes the 15th edition as an opportunity to point out that all reports are available

For these years, the development process of EU and national biofuel policy can be taken in the ‘rear-view mirror’, figuratively speaking.