2020年可能为欧洲乙醇行业提供了很大的一年，因为会员国在基于作物的生物燃料消费中留下盖帽，这将在未来十年的过程中将卷限制为2020年。
根据经修订的可再生能源指令（RED）介绍，上限将使会员国扩大2020年在2020年扩大基于作物的生物燃料的激励，或面对未来几年的运输部门脱碳目标的更大挑战。
Speaking at theWorld Ethanol & Biofuels布鲁塞尔大会本周早些时候，生产者，分析师和贸易商表示信心，即2020年，2020年应在欧洲看到欧洲的常规燃料乙醇的更高产量和更高进口，因为国家决策者适应监管限制。
Many policy makers will also have to contend with the repercussions of failure to abide by the Fuel Quality Directive (FQD), which obliges member states to reduce transport sector greenhouse gas intensity in 2020 by a minimum of 6% relative to the year 2010.
迄今为止只有四个欧盟国家设法将运输燃料的温室气体强度降低了4％或更多，平均减少了二十八名成员国的3.4％。
The shortfall is likely to draw attention to the need introduce cost effective, near-term solutions for reducing the carbon intensity of transport fuels.
瑞典, which has a stricter fuel quality penalty structure than other European countries, is currently leading the pack on GHG intensity reductions. Countries with laxer penalty structures, such as the UK, are less likely to achieve compliance with the FQD.
利希特基金会（F.O.Licht）董事总经理克里斯托夫•伯格（christophberg）在会上表示，如果这些惩罚措施得到严格执行，它们“可能会导致欧盟贸易流动的重新定向”。“混合更多生物燃料将有巨大的动力。”
Berg观察到，欧洲联盟对生物燃料的政治态度似乎是有所改善的。以前，监管支持往往是有必要寻找保险人收获年度农业盈余的出口。
因此，生物燃料已经经历了强大的支持，随后怀疑的时期，因为这种理由在多年盈余生产中蜡的强度，并在生产赤字多年来徘徊。
“我们在运输部门的脱碳方面面临着一个非常明显的挑战。目标是在本世纪中叶使欧洲成为第一个气候中立的大陆。”Hans van Steen, European Commission.
The increasing relevance of CO2 mitigation to the political debate has largely supplanted the justification of absorbing agricultural surpluses, Berg said. Biofuels are also now accompanied by a broader suite of low carbon transportation technologies, electrification not least among them.
“生物燃料将是一种选择 - 最明显的选择，目前的验证和测试的选择 - 但只有许多选择，”Berg告诉会议。
这有助于限制乙醇的暴露，从倾向于将燃料视为脱碳决策者的拐杖，以限制批评批评。
欧洲委员会可再生能源，研究，创新和能源效率，汉斯范斯汀的代理总监介绍，强调了快速移动以减少运输部门排放的重要性。
“We are facing a very clear challenge in terms of decarbonising the transport sector. The objective is to make Europe the first climate neutral continent by the middle of this century,” he said.
虽然委员会认为，在确定哪种脱碳途径和技术证明是成功的情况下，这项评估不受许多生物燃料生产商不共享。
The cap on crop-based biofuels may be a boon to the ethanol industry in 2020, but in its current form it will act as a ceiling to the industry’s ambitions in later years.
The Renewable Energy Directive was last revised in 2018 and is scheduled for another review in 2023. The new Commission, due to take office in early December, may choose to move this date forward as part of a new package of climate and energy policy measures introduced under the rubric of the European Green Deal, van Steen intimated.
“The review of RED II in 2023 can only be towards more ambition – it can’t reduce the targets,” he said. “The discussion under the new Commission will be whether they can wait until 2023 to do the review.”
取消对农作物生物燃料的限制将是欧洲乙醇生产商的核心担忧。
欧洲可再生乙醇协会（EPUE）总裁Alarik Sandrup（Eubure）的欧洲可再生乙醇协会（EPURE）总裁Alarik Sandrup表示，决策者应该将欧盟的可持续发展标准作为未来决策的基础。
“不幸的是,讨论sustainability of biofuel production have not been directed towards those criteria,” said Sandrup. “Instead we have this cap of 7% for crop-based biofuels.”
如果生物燃料行业在提出其案例方面取得了成功，它可能会发现这两位世界各地的最佳结果：在短期内的需求较高，以便在盖帽准备盖子，随后随后取消基于作物的生物燃料的限制。
这种结果是政治宗旨，取决于Ursula von der Leyen的入境委员会对乙醇行业的态度，这是迄今尚不清楚的。可以理解，所有的眼睛都会在开幕式上。
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