Ladies and Gentleman,
my most intensive meeting with the science and technology in the field of Biomass for Energy, Agriculture and Industry I had when I chaired the VII. European Biomass Conference in Florence 1992, together with David Hall as the chairman of the scientific committee. Many things happened in the last decade for Bio-Energy. The most important are, in my point of view, the increasing policy awareness on BioEnergy and the increasing awareness of the car industry to recognise Bio-Energy as a transport fuel.