What is it about?
This article describes the legal power of the EU and the use of this power to promote sustainable use of the biofuels by formally binding criteria. The EU exerts exterritorial jurisdiction by the way of these criteria. Only those criteria related to agroenvironmental practices are without effect on biofuels produced outside the EU.
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Why is it important?
The article illustrate the complexity of the legal design of environmental, renewable energy and climate instruments as well as the importance of EU's frontrunner position for the global development of the law. It is also illustrating the importance of the normative function of the European Court of Justice.
Perspectives
The article is an illustration of how the EU as a global frontrunner has developed new instruments. It is illustrated with the harmonised and binding sustainability quality criteria that has been developed with a focus on the whole life cycle of biofuels to promote the greening of the transport sector. The trade barriers for the use of such criteria are also illustrated.
Ellen Margrethe Basse
Aarhus University
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This page is a summary of: Environmental Reviews and Case Studies: The Legal Design of Sustainability Criteria on Biofuels Used by the European Union, Environmental Practice, March 2013, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1017/s1466046612000488.
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