Question 22012 — energy and fuels

Summary

Mr. Gabriel Serville draws the attention of the Minister of Ecological and Inclusive Transition to the reduction of the TICPE for advanced biofuels based on flotation grease, composed of at least 30% methyl esters of fatty acids, in order to allow them to benefit from the same advantageous taxation already existing for type B100 biofuels. Since the energy transition law for green growth of 2015, it is now appropriate to prioritize the development of advanced biofuels. Advanced biofuels are biofuels using raw materials that do not compete with food markets. They come in particular from waste, such as flotation grease, and their use allows maximum savings in greenhouse gas emissions. This is all the more true as their production only uses energy renewable and recycled water. Currently, the physicochemical parameters required in France for advanced biofuels derived from flotation grease do not allow their use in captive fleets. Indeed, to be placed on the market, a biofuel must not only meet the criteria set out by the European standard EN14214, but must also meet national parameters, in particular on physicochemical. The percentage of saturated fatty acids and the filterability limit temperature (temperature below which the biofuel freezes) are part of these parameters. Thus, France considers that the biofuel must have a TLF of -10°C in B100. These parameters are only achieved by biofuels from rapeseed, which therefore benefit from tax relief (set out in article 265 of the customs code). This is discriminatory and blocking the production of advanced biofuels for French captive fleets. Indeed, advanced biofuels derived from flotation fats cannot satisfy the French parameters in TLF or percentage of saturated fatty acids (because they contain a share of animal fat), and they are therefore automatically excluded from a reduction in the TICPE for B100 and any other percentage of incorporation even though the latter are more expensive to produce due to their origin. It would therefore be desirable to obtain the possibility of having a tax advantage also for lower incorporation percentages applicable to advanced biofuels. This advantage must also be accompanied by a relaxation of the decrees setting the limit values ​​for the cold properties of biofuels. In view of these elements, he asks him to want to clarify the Government's intentions regarding the possibility of further developing advanced biofuels, particularly from flotation grease, via the implementation of tax and regulatory measures.

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