The current leader on the world biodiesel market, Europe is, after the United States and Brazil, one of the regions driving the production and utilization of biofuels. Its ambitious biofuel content targets for motor fuels (5.75% by 2010 and 8% by 2015) encourage Member States to significantly develop those pathways. This raises certain questions, especially about available biomass resources. It is likely that, beyond 2010, technologies other than those in existence today, using lignocellulosic biomass, will have to be implemented.