MIL-OSI Europe: Written question – Average calculation for biomass, ‘spoiled’ edible oils from China and grass as a climate and aquatic environment instrument – P-001236/2025

Priority question for written answer  P-001236/2025
to the Commission
Rule 144
Asger Christensen (Renew)

• 1.Does the Commission agree that biogas plants’ revenues from meeting carbon displacement requirements with animal-manure-based biogas for the transport sector have fallen significantly as a result of the requirement to use average calculations instead of mass balance for apportioning purposes, and, in order to ensure renewed market pull for biogas, will the Commission work towards a new interpretation during revision of Annex VI, in connection with the new RED III, which makes it clear that the climate footprint of biogas produced can be apportioned on the basis of biomass used as documented through proof-of-sustainability certification?
• 2.Can the Commission say whether the new anti-dumping duty on Chinese biofuels is sufficient to prevent the import of what are questionable biofuels and, in addition, whether it can stop those imports by restricting their use to below the same 1.7% cap as for used cooking oil or through more stringent certification in the supply chain?
• 3.Can the Commission say whether it would not be appropriate for biomass harvested from areas that have been converted from cultivation of annual crops to perennial crops such as grass, in order to protect the aquatic environment, to be included as sustainable biomass in Annex IX to the Renewable Energy Directive?

Submitted: 25.3.2025