VERONA, Italy (Reuters) - Growth of the European Union's biodiesel output slowed to not more than 10 percent in 2007 due to increasing competition from the U.S biodiesel, a senior European Biodiesel Board (EBB) official said on Friday.
"Growth in 2007 was the worst in the past 10 years," Garofalo said.
Garofalo said the EU output slowdown in 2007 was due to increasing imports of cheap subsidized U.S biodiesel and also the lack of political support for the green fuel in some EU states.
Garofalo said EU biodiesel capacity was only 50 percent used in 2007.
(Reporting by Svetlana Kovalyova, Editing by Peter Blackburn)
