From 2025, the EU will have a two per cent blending mandate for Sustainable Aviation Fuels (SAF). A ten-point measures paper, drawn up by the SAF ramp-up working group (AG) of the Working Group on Climate-Neutral Aviation (AKkL), shows how investment in production capacities can now be driven forward. It was presented to the Federal Government Commissioner for German Aerospace, Dr Anna Christmann, and the Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister of Digital and Transport, Oliver Luksic, at the International Aerospace Exhibition (ILA) on 5 June 2024 on the grounds of Berlin-Brandenburg BER Airport.
The catalogue drawn up by the SAF working group proposes a series of activities that the more than 50 members believe are necessary to effectively tackle the necessary ramp-up of sustainable aviation fuels. An ‘SAF Outlook 2024-2030’ prepared by the CENA Hessen competence centre in collaboration with the SAF working group had shown that although it is possible to meet the European SAF mandate from biogenic waste and municipal residues, there is an acute need for action under the current framework conditions to ensure compliance with the European eSAF mandate, which will take effect in 2030 (1.2 per cent from 2030, five per cent from 2035).
