1409 GMT - The European Union's sustainable-aviation-fuel regulation will likely follow the fate of its ban on combustion-engine cars, TotalEnergies Chairman and CEO Patrick Pouyanne says at the World Economic Forum in Davos. In December, the EU proposed watering down rules that would have effectively banned the sale of new combustion-engine cars in the bloc from 2035. "What happened to the car regulation will happen to the SAF regulation in Europe," Pouyanne tells a panel at the World Economic Forum. Under the so-called ReFuelEU Aviation Regulation, the EU set a target of 6% of all fuel supplied at EU airports to be sustainable aviation fuel. Pouyanne says his bet is that this won't happen and the European Commission, the EU's executive arm, will have to revise the plan. (adria.calatayud@wsj.com)
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