# France allows Total's La Mede refinery to partly run on palm oil

> French authorities allowed Total's La Mede biorefinery to partly use palm oil as feedstock, requiring at least 25 percent recycled oil. French oilseed producers strongly objected, saying most of the feedstock would be imported palm oil.

- Date: 2018-05-17 · published 2018-05-17T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: policy · region France · magnitude low
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/65045-france-allows-total-s-la-mede-refinery-to-partly-run-on-palm-oil
- Commodities: [Palm Oil](https://feedsoft.ai/c/PALMOIL.md), [Canola Meal](https://feedsoft.ai/c/CANMEAL.md)

## Why it matters

Palm oil use in a large new French biodiesel plant adds to European palm oil biofuel demand, mildly supportive for palm oil and competing with rapeseed-based biodiesel.

## Read by commodity

- CANMEAL: bearish ▼
- PALMOIL: bullish ▲

## Similar past events

| Commodity | Date | Event | 5-day % | 20-day % |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| PALMOIL | 2025-04-08 | [Indonesia to adjust crude palm oil export tax, finance minister says](https://feedsoft.ai/events/15566-indonesia-to-adjust-crude-palm-oil-export-tax-finance-minister-says.md) | +0.7% | -4.1% |
| PALMOIL | 2022-04-27 | [Indonesia stuns markets as it widens ban to include CPO, refined palm oil \| Reuters](https://feedsoft.ai/events/41964-indonesia-stuns-markets-as-it-widens-ban-to-include-cpo-refined-palm-oil-reuters.md) | +10.1% | +0.6% |
| PALMOIL | 2025-08-14 | [Malaysia Raises Sept Crude Palm Oil Reference Price, Lifting Duty to 10% – MPOC](https://feedsoft.ai/events/15538-malaysia-raises-sept-crude-palm-oil-reference-price-lifting-duty-to-10-mpoc.md) | +0.4% | +1.9% |
| PALMOIL | 2023-07-02 | [Palm Oil Magazine - CPO Reference Price Rises 3.19%: CPO OF and Levy on 1 - 15 July 2023 - Palm Oil Magazine](https://feedsoft.ai/events/15721-palm-oil-magazine-cpo-reference-price-rises-3-19-cpo-of-and-levy-on-1-15-july.md) | +10.3% | +12.9% |
| PALMOIL | 2020-01-06 | [Laman Web Rasmi KPK - PALM OIL: Export levy to balance the CPO price rally](https://feedsoft.ai/events/54956-laman-web-rasmi-kpk-palm-oil-export-levy-to-balance-the-cpo-price-rally.md) | +0.3% | -16.4% |

## Sources

- admin.hydrocarbonprocessing.com: https://admin.hydrocarbonprocessing.com/news/2018/05/france-allows-totals-la-mede-refinery-to-partly-run-on-palm-oil/

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