The Biofuels Digest website reports that a biofuels bill which establishes sustainability standards for biofuels production passed its first reading in the national Parliament. The proposed sustainability principles for qualifying biofuels are: (1) that they must emit significantly less greenhouse gas over their life cycles than fossil fuels, (2) that they must not compete with food production or be produced using land of high value for food production, (3) that their production must not reduce indigenous biodiversity or adversely affect land with high conservation values. If the bill is passed into law, it would take effect in 2010..