Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) represents great potential for biogas production and utilisation due to its significant agricultural sector and availability of biomass. This statement, is it has been identified that business sector – biogas investors – have already tapped potential biogas sites while their investments are caught in an administrative pipeline for a period which is mostly longer than for other RES.

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Best practice examples for biogas plant permitting that investigate permitting procedures in top 5 EU countries with developed biogas market for agricultural biogas plants (Germany, Denmark, Austria, Italy, the Netherlands):

Overview of permitting procedures in 7 target countries in Central and Easten Europe:


In addition, we will provide 5 events in each target country for capacity builing:

  • 2 capacity building trainings for administrative sector
  • 2 capacity building trainings for investors on permitting procedures
  • 1 interactive forum

Information about the dates and venues of the events can be found here.

Events are free of charge for the participants. The expected outcome is to introduce the best european practices to the participants and to provide ideas for improvements in the countries with long and complicated permitting procedure.