Our mission is to produce fuel grade ethanol effectively and efficiently for use in the transportation sector of the Czech Republic as well as the entire European Union. Jihočeský zemědělský lihovar, a.s. (Southern-Bohemian Agricultural Distillery – further down only JZL) will construct and operate an ethanol production facility that utilizes cereals, especially wheat and triticale as a feedstock. Through state of the art technology JZL will be the producing a clean, environmentally friendly bioethanol from renewable resources. Based on the worldwide trend and in connection with the objectives of the European Union and the Czech Republic, JZL intends to participate in fulfilling the requirements of the Kyoto Protocol and the Green Book of the European Commission. JZL will also actively participate in fulfilling the mandatory 10% minimum target to be achieved by all Member States for the share of biofuels in transport by 2020, according to the Directive 2009/28/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 April 2009 on the promotion of the use of energy from renewable sources and amending and subsequently repealing Directives 2001/77/EC and 2003/30/EC.