EU Policies on Bioenergy and their Potential Clash with the WTO
概述了欧盟促进生物能源(包括生物燃料)的政策,分析其与WTO农业协定及补贴规则的潜在冲突,并指出环境可持续性标准可能引发问题。
Abstract The paper outlines EU policy on bioenergy, including biofuels, in the context of its policy initiatives to promote renewable energy to combat greenhouse gas emissions and climate change. The EU’s Member States are responsible for implementing EU policy: thus, the UK’s Renewables Obligation on electricity suppliers and its Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation and road‐fuel tax rebates are examined. It is unlikely that EU policy is in conflict with the WTO Agreement on Agriculture or that on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures, but its provisions on environmental sustainability criteria could be problematic.