"Dodgy Diesel?"

Cheap imports of biodiesel from Poland threaten EU green fuel market.

16:45 08 March 2016

Allegations that some operators in Poland are exporting cheap biodiesel to European countries have surfaced, threatening the EU green fuel market. All diesel sold in the EU needs to contain a percentage of fuel made from crops such as rapeseed – something that Polish diesel export does not seem to have.

 

The European Biodiesel Board (EBB) says they have seen “signals and suspicious activities” that all is not as it should be with Polish biodiesel exports.

 

EBB believes that some Polish suppliers are trying to meet the obligation by simply adding extra diesel to the mix and reserving the fuel made from crops.

Secretary General of the EBB, Raffaello Garofalo, said: "This could be based either on fraud or on a loophole of the Polish legislation, which may not be accurate to verify that the actual physical blending of the fuels has happened.”

 

"It may be the authorities are just happy with an invoice which is shown to them that somebody has purchased biodiesel - but then there may not be a physical check that they are blended, this might be the question mark."