APAG Position on Key Issues

• Position Paper on the proposed Renewable Energy Directive to promote the use of Energy from Renewable Sources ( May 2008)
   
• Commission Proposal 2001/0265 (COD) on Biofuels for transport and Commission Proposal 2001/0266 (CNS) on the reduced excise rates on biofuels (January 2005)
   
• Position Paper on EU Renewable Energy Policy (January 2005)
   
• APAG proposal to promote the development of new applications for glycerine (May 2003)

• APAG recommendation to exclude tallow from the production of biodiesel to ensure level playing field for the oleochemical industry (May 2003)
   
• The Safety of Tallow Derivatives with respect to Bovine Spongiform  Encephalopathy (August 2003)
   
• Tallow & Tallow Derivatives

• The use of Fatty Acids and its co-products as ingredients in Compound Feedingstuffs

• Council Directive 93/43/EC of 14 June 1993 on the Hygiene of Foodstuffs

• The Safety of Fatty Acid Methyl Esters & their acceptability as immediate previous cargoes
  to be used in foods after further processing