Law in the EU’s Circular Energy System: Biofuel, Biowaste and Biogas

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Notes

1 See European Commission, ‘Communication from the Commission. The European Green Deal’ (2019) COM (2019) 640 final; Regulation (EU) 2021/1119 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 30 June 2021 establishing the framework for achieving climate neutrality and amending Regulations (EC) No 401/2009 and (EU) 2018/1999 (hereafter ‘European Climate Law’) [2021] OJ L 243/1

2 European Commission, ‘Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions. Powering a Climate-Neutral Economy: An EU Strategy for Energy System Integration’ (2020) COM (2020 299 final.

3 eg Ruven Fleming, Kaisa Huhta and Leonie Reins (eds), Sustainable Energy Democracy and the Law (Brill 2021); Feja Lesniewska and Katrien Steenmans, Circular Economy and the Law: Bringing Justice into the Frame (Routledge 2023) ch 5

4 European Commission, ‘Communication from the Commission. The European Green Deal’ (n 1)

5 The Basel Convention is covered in relation to the impact of waste trade in Geert van Calster, ‘Waste in the Circular Energy System’ in Lucila de Almeida and Josephine van Zeben (eds), Law in the EU’s Circular Energy System: Biofuel, Biowaste and Biogas (Edward Elgar 2023) 25–26

6 The USA Resource Conservation and Recovery Act is briefly discussed in van Calster (n 5) 25; private regulation in relation to end-of-life scenarios of biomass are briefly discussed within the US context in Madhura Rao, Aalt Bast and Alie de Boer, ‘Food Waste to Biogas and Biofuel: Law and Policy’ in de Almeida and van Zeben (n 5) 67

7 Maciej M Sokolowski, ‘From Gas to Biogas from Biowaste: Heating, Power Generation, and Cogeneration’ in de Almeida and van Zeben, Law in the EU’s Circular Energy System (n 5) 114–27

8 This review is devoted to a discussion of the edited volume in its entirety rather than critiquing each chapter individually.

9 Rao, Bast and de Boer (n 6) 65–68

10 Agnieszka Smolenska, ‘EU Law and Policy Shaping Supranational and National Investment in Biofuel and Biogas Transition’ in de Almeida and van Zeben, Law in the EU’s Circular Energy System (n 5) 215–19

11 Directive (EU) 2018/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 December 2018 on the promotion of the use of energy from renewable sources [2018] OJ L 328/82

12 Mirta Alessandrini, Edwin Alblas and Lin Batten, ‘Agricultural Waste to Biofuel and Biogas: Law and Policy’ in de Almeida and van Zeben, Law in the EU’s Circular Energy System (n 5) 47

13 Lucila de Almeida and Josephine van Zeben, ‘The EU’s Circular Energy System and the Green Deal’ in de Almeida and van Zeben, Law in the EU’s Circular Energy System (n 5) 3–4

14 European Commission, ‘Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions. A New Circular Economy Action Plan. For a Cleaner and More Competitive Europe’ (2020) COM(2020) 98 final. In the index, there is only one page pinpointed for discussing the ‘Circular Economic Plan’ [sic] (though it is mentioned elsewhere too, but these other few pages have not been included in the index).

15 Maria Olczak and Andris Piebalgs, ‘Methane Emission in a Circular Economy’ in de Almeida and van Zeben, Law in the EU’s Circular Energy System (n 5)

16 ‘Promoting Renewables in a Circular Energy System’ is Section V (out of VI sections): Alberto Pototschnig and Ilaria Conti, ‘Renewable Support Schemes and Guarantees of Origin Applied to Renewable Energy Regulation’ in de Almeida and van Zeben, Law in the EU’s Circular Energy System (n 5)

17 eg Julian Kirchherr, Denise Reike and Marko Hekkert, ‘Conceptualizing the Circular Economy: An Analysis of 114 Definitions’ (2017) 127 Resources, Conservation and Recycling 221

18 de Almeida and van Zeben (n 13) 1

19 Elisa Cavallin, ‘Forestry Waste to Biofuel and Biogas: Law and Policy’ in de Almeida and van Zeben, Law in the EU’s Circular Energy System (n 5) 100