2 Amendments of Lynn BOYLAN related to 2016/0382(COD)
Amendment 178 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 62
Recital 62
(62) The European Strategy for a low- carbon mobility of July 2016 pointed out that food-based biofuels have a limited role in decarbonising the transport sector and should be gradually phased out and replaced by advanced biofuels. To prepare for the transition towards advanced biofuels and minimise the overall indirecNotes, however, that the European biofuel production is an important income source for farming families, encouraging investment land-use change impacts, it is appropriate to reduce the amount of biofuels and bioliqu job creation in rural areas, and that the industry also provides EU produced from food and feed crops that can be counted towards the Union target set out in this Directivers with non-genetically modified animal feed, which helps address the overdependence on imported protein for animals in the EU.
Amendment 566 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 25 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
Article 25 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
1. With effect from 1 January 2021, Member States shall require fuel suppliers to include a minimum share of energy from advanced biofuels and other biofuels and biogas produced from feedstock listed in Annex IX, from highly sustainable crop based biofuels, from renewable liquid and gaseous transport fuels of non-biological origin, from waste-based fossil fuels and from renewable electricity in the total amount of transport fuels they supply for consumption or use on the market in the course of a calendar year.