Union bioenergy sustainability report : study to support reporting under Article 35 of Regulation (EU) 2018/1999 : final report

The Governance Regulation sets out the legal requirements and specific content for Member States (MSs) to report to the EC on the five dimensions of the Energy Union, including when to report and templates for the reports, which are further detailed in Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/2299 of 15 November 2022. The NECPRs submitted in the 2023 round were the first NECPRs with the new and updated formats, containing the requests as stated in the Governance Regulation. In this report, we present the main findings of the quantitative and qualitative analysis regarding the production and consumption of bioenergy in each MS and in the European Union (EU-27) as a whole, as well as the main policies and measures implemented. Within this scope, we address the sustainability of the bioenergy consumption in the EU-27. For the quantitative analysis, based on data provided by the MSs in their NECPRs, as well as Eurostat databases (e.g. Energy Balances, SHARES), we elaborated a set of graphs and tables to show the bioenergy shares across different categories, covering: Per sector: electricity, heating and cooling, and transport sectors (RES-E, RES-H&C, RES-T) Per bioenergy type: solid biomass, biogas, bioliquids and biofuels Per feedstock: agricultural biomass with a focus on food and feed, forest biomass, waste and residues, especially Annex IX feedstocks For the year 2021 and insights of the trend of previous years