by Leonardo Goy (Reuters; Google translation) President Dilma Rousseff signed on Wednesday the law which provides for the gradual increase in biodiesel blend in diesel, from the current 7 percent to 8 percent in March 2017, increasing one percentage point per year until it reaches 10 percent in 2019.
Increasing the mandatory addition, however, depends on tests on vehicles that will be completed by March next year, said the Secretary of Oil, Natural Gas and Renewable Fuels of the Ministry of Mines and Energy, Marco Antonio Martins Almeida, citing item law.
In parallel, the government will conduct, within 36 months, the tests to release the mixture of up to 15 percent. Almeida said, however, that 15 percent will be optional, not mandatory as the gradual rise up to 10 percent. READ MORE and MORE (Black Sea Grain)