Background Forestry is a national competence even though EU environmental, agricultural and energy policies do concern forestry. In 2013, the EU institutions adopted the EU Timber Regulation which prohibits illegally harvested timber, and products derived from such timber, from entering the EU market. In order to harmonise with legislation that governs timber from outside the EU, the EU is in the process of adopting the EU Deforestation...
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The Working Group Agro-biomass was established in March 2017 to promote specific types of biomass feedstocks such as solid vegetal residue streams from agriculture and dedicated perennial lignocellulosic crops. Both result in abundant feedstock sources that are – to this day – largely underutilised. The Working Group aims to support the development of this sector and bring together stakeholders of the industry to discuss the...
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Background Agriculture is an area in which competence is shared between the European Union (EU) and EU Member States. The bioenergy and agricultural sectors are closely intertwined. The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) funds direct payments to farmers, regulates agricultural markets and finances EU countries' rural development programmes. Launched for the first time over 50 years ago, the CAP reform was adopted in December 2021 and entered...
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enSURE Compliance with RED II Sustainability Requirements for the Production of Electricity, Heating and Cooling from Biomass.