Paper Titles & Abstracts

The revision of the Directive 98/70/EC and the resulting replacement of it with the Directive 2009/30/EC in April 2009 carries the pronounced character of attention to environmental aspects of fuel quality (CEC 2009, CEC 1998). This can be exemplified in particular at the goals of the new directive to specify a number of elements of the petrol and diesel, to oblige fuel suppliers to reduce the greenhouse gas intensity of energy for road transport, and to stipulate sustainability criteria for biofuels to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. In sum, the Directive 2009/30/EC aims to facilitate the blending of ethanol in petrol my means of increasing in the maximum ethanol share to 10%, and thus to make conventional fuels less pollutant.The run up to the negotiations of the Directive of 2009 as well as the time past it was molded by European Commission's assessment of range of opinions. It resulted in communications and recommendations with regard to the final shape of the 2009 Directive, and in reports related to issues left not entirely resolved during the negotiations, such as the issue of indirect land use. The purpose of this paper is to examine in detail the process of policy-making on the standards of conventional fuels in transport at the EU-level, placing particular emphasis on the interaction of this body of legislation with the one aimed at promotion of renewable energy and renewable fuels, e.g. through reference to overall goals and strategies of the latter legislative framework. The process tracking of decision making under study would imply enquiring into positions and legislative influence by governmental, EU-institutional, private and third-sector actors, applying advocacy-coalition approach.