The Swiss currently tax imported vegetable oil, although there are proposals to change this law. If the oil is to be used as road fuel, the rate is the same as if it were mineral oil, making it very expensive. I have been told that you won't be taxed if you bring in two litres of vegetable oil, plus whattever is in the fuel tank.
Vegetable Oil that is produced at pilot and demonstration plants, recognised by the Agriculture Office, is free of tax, and legal to use as a fuel. Other vegetable oil (including waste vegetable oil) from non-approved sources would be liable to the mineral oil tax.
This report contains lots of background information.
http://www.globalsubsidies.org/IMG/pdf/Swiss_Support_to_Biofuels2.pdf
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