On 1 January this year the EU’s sustainability criteria for biofuel came into force, which included criteria for the sustainable production of ethanol. In 2010 Lantmännen Agroetanol and Lantmännen Lantbruk worked intensively to ensure that they would be able to meet these criteria. Lantmännen welcomes these new regulations and in 2010 a third-party inspection was carried out on its production chain to ensure that it met the sustainability criteria.