Press Release
Commission’s biofuel plans will cost Europe’s cereal and beet farmers at least €2 billion per year
10.11.2016
On the occasion of the World Ethanol & Biofuels conference taking place in Brussels, the European Association of Sugar Manufacturers (CEFS), the European Confederation of Maize Production (CEPM), the International Confederation of European Beet Growers (CIBE) and the European renewable ethanol producers association (ePURE) have issued a joint letter to the European Commission strongly opposing any phasing out of EU support for conventional biofuels produced in Europe from crops and feedstock that have been grown in Europe.