Several European Union states have failed to implement rules promoting biofuels, the European Commission said today, adding it was starting or advancing legal action against the offending countries.
The European Commission said the bloc's 25 governments had to turn EU rules on biofuel usage into national law in 2004. In addition, they had to send a report to the Commission with 'an indicative target for the share of the petrol and diesel market that will be taken by biofuels at the end of 2005'.
The EU directive calls for a 2% reference goal and states had to explain if their targets were different.
Estonia, Finland, Greece, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal and Slovenia had not yet notified the Commission of the national law. Italy, Luxembourg, and Slovenia had not submitted reports, while France and Estonia's reports lacked concrete targets, the Commission said.
