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Bio-based Industries Consortium

BIC

BIC is a leading European association for circularity and sustainability in the bioeconomy.

Lobbying Activity

Meeting with Henri Delanghe (Head of Unit Agriculture and Rural Development)

10 Nov 2025 · Current and future collaboration on the CBE JU, and needs of the bioeconomy sector.

Bio-based industries demand inclusion of primary biomass in EU Act

6 Nov 2025
Topic — Legislation to enhance EU economic security through sustainable production and circular economy models.
Message — Include all biomass types, including primary crops, within the legislative framework. Set bio-based content targets via product-specific rules following impact assessments. Improve bio-waste collection and update environmental footprint methods for biogenic carbon.123
Why — This secures a diverse feedstock supply and boosts demand for bio-based products.45
Impact — Fossil-fuel chemical producers lose market share as regulations favor renewable biomass alternatives.6
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Meeting with Ann-Sofie Ronnlund (Cabinet of Commissioner Ekaterina Zaharieva)

22 Oct 2025 · Bioeconomy

Meeting with Kirsi Haavisto (Head of Unit Research and Innovation)

6 Oct 2025 · Exchange insights on mobilising capacity through transnational cooperation between TI

Bio-based industries urge simpler EU rules for innovative SMEs

30 Sept 2025
Topic — This initiative proposes a single harmonized corporate legal framework for innovative companies.
Message — BIC recommends creating a simple EU Company for SMEs with symbolic capital requirements. They call for 48-hour incorporation and reduced duplication for tax compliance. The group requests harmonized rules for employee stock options and investments.123
Why — Standardized rules would significantly lower administrative costs and accelerate cross-border operations.45
Impact — Financial institutions and national registries would face stricter requirements and less local control.67
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Meeting with Eric Mamer (Director-General Environment) and

30 Sept 2025 · EU Bioeconomy strategy

Bio-based Industries Consortium demands binding EU biomaterial targets

23 Jun 2025
Topic — The initiative aims to create a circular, climate-neutral bioeconomy for EU competitiveness.
Message — BIC requests a strategy with specific, timebound actions and binding mandates for biomaterials. They also urge increased funding to bridge the innovation valley of death.12
Why — This would secure market demand and lower the financial risk for scaling biomanufacturing.3
Impact — Fossil fuel companies would lose market share as mandatory targets favor bio-based alternatives.4
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Bio-based industry urges EU to expand Biotech Act scope

11 Jun 2025
Topic — The EU is proposing measures to accelerate biotechnology transition from laboratory to market.
Message — The organization wants the law to include materials, chemicals, and food production rather than just medicine. They also request simplified rules and more funding to help European companies compete globally.12
Why — Expanded scope and streamlined rules would help bio-based firms secure investments.3
Impact — Fossil-based industries may face tougher competition from subsidized and faster-approved bio-based alternatives.4
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Meeting with Andrea Wechsler (Member of the European Parliament) and Siemens Energy AG and

14 May 2025 · EU Energy and industry policy

Meeting with Alexandre Adam (Cabinet of President Ursula von der Leyen) and Futerro and BIOECONOMY FOR CHANGE

16 Apr 2025 · Discussions on the challenges and opportunities faced by biobased chemical and plastic industry in the context of the EU chemical industry plan

Meeting with Emmanuelle Maire (Head of Unit Environment)

25 Mar 2025 · Bioeconomy strategy 2025

Meeting with Andreas Glück (Member of the European Parliament)

20 Mar 2025 · Bio tech

Response to EU Start-up and Scale-up Strategy

17 Mar 2025

The Bio-based Industries Consortium (BIC) has over 350 industry members, of which 50+ are start-ups, from different sectors and across the bio-based value chain. BIC has also over 250 association members, including universities and RTOs. The BIC input provided to this consultation is specifically from our start-up members. In addition, BIC stresses the importance of creating industrial ecosystems for biomanufacturing, including start-ups. In our sector, cutting-edge innovation is often not brought to the market by one single company, but requires collaboration across the value-chain and between different partners, including start-ups AND large companies working together on R&D, scale-up and commercialization to bring bio-based solutions to the market. BIC key asks (summary) 1. The most pressing issues are: Access to finance, regulatory barriers, and slow funding processes. 2. Industry-specific struggles include: Food startups face long approval delays; circular economy startups struggle with non-standardized regulations; industrial start-ups lack private equity support. 3. The proposed EU reforms include: Faster funding cycles, reduced bureaucracy, harmonized regulations, and stronger market creation and integration policies/strategies.
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Meeting with Taru Haapaniemi (Cabinet of Commissioner Christophe Hansen)

12 Mar 2025 · Bioeconomy

Response to Delegated act on primarily used components under the Net-Zero Industry Act

20 Feb 2025

In the context of the NZIA, BIC urges for a consistency (see 1. below) and level-playing field (see 2. below) on the use of technologies and equipment/infrastracture across bio-based sectors Defossilization is also transformative! The Annex should not only list energy related technologies, but a new category on 'Industrial technologies for defossilizing the material sector' (see 3. below) There is evidence that the transition to bio-based solutions - in addition to circularity and CCU - is necessary for clean and climate-neutral industry Therefore, both biotechnology and biomanfacturing are important o At process level, biotechnology and other technologies can help to save C02 o At product level, , biomanufacturing can help to reduce GHG emissions and the dependency on fossil raw materials We understand biomanufacturing as the conversion of biological resources into chemicals, products and energy whatever the technology. 1. NZIA regulation and DA: Be consistent as regards biotech climate and energy solutions by listing all relevant products included in the definition in the NZIA BIC emphasizes that the proposed NZIA delegated act is not consistent with the NZIA regulation, namely Art 3 (9) i.e. in the delegated act biopolymers are not listed, it only includes microorganism and enzymes. There is strong evidence to how biopolymers contribute to the NZIA objective The definition is therefore unnecessarily narrow and should be consistent with the NZIA regulation to include all of the technologies in scope of the definition fo biotech climate and energy solutions, e.g. by including biopolymers in addition to enzymes and microrganisms. 2. Create level-playing field across bio-based sectors On the other, the framing for bio-energy is much wi der in scope and includes o a) other renewable energy technologies such as biomass technologies and o b) equipment to produce biofuels is classified as sustainable fuel technology only It doesn't make sense that equipment to produce biofuels is classified as sustainable fuel technology only. In the bio-based sector, you often have multiple output streams, and you would exclude them unless they also produce biofuel Whilst for biotech climate and energy solution you refer to biotechnology only, for renewable energy technologies you have a wider scope (i.e. such as biomass technologies) BIC advocates for of a broad scope technologies supporting a clean and climate-neutral industry, including biotechnogies and other technologies used for biomanufacturing 3. Add more transformative applications, in particular for defossilization to the list of primarily used components to produce net-zero technologies Include CCS and (bio)CCU technlogies, including the uses of enzymes and microorganisms to capture the waste carbon from industrial processes to transforms into bio-biobased chemicals 'Thermochemical, chemical, biochemical/ biological and hybrid reactors to convert biomass or biobased CO2 into bio-based chemicals or materials' Under Battery and Energy Storage technologies, add conductive additives and modifiers to the list of primarily used components under Battery technologies. Bioreactors used to produce microorganisms and/or produce recycled carbon chemicals Thermochemical, chemical, biochemical/biological, and hybrid reactors to covert waste carbon whether solid, liquid or gaseous (CO/CO2) into recycled carbon chemicals Thermochemical, chemical, biochemical/biological, and hybrid reactors to covert biomass (and waste carbon) into (bio-based) chemicals (Post) treatment units e.g. to isolate and capture recycled carbon to produce (bio-based) chemicals
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Meeting with Christine Singer (Member of the European Parliament)

20 Feb 2025 · Bioökonomie

Meeting with Hans Ingels (Head of Unit Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs)

28 Jan 2025 · - Potential strategic partnerships. - The criteria taken by the European Investment Bank regarding the attribution of funding for bio-based application using

Meeting with Taru Haapaniemi (Cabinet of Commissioner Janusz Wojciechowski)

3 Jul 2024 · Meeting to discuss about the role of the primary sector in bio-innovation projects.

Meeting with Carole Mancel-Blanchard (Cabinet of Commissioner Elisa Ferreira), Pedro MOIA (Cabinet of Commissioner Elisa Ferreira)

29 Nov 2022 · Synergies between the European Regional Development Fund and Horizon Europe.

Bio-based industries demand affordable, science-based carbon removal certification

2 May 2022
Topic — The European Commission is creating a framework to certify sustainable carbon removals.
Message — BIC wants credits for substituting fossil products with renewable alternatives. They demand manufacturers receive rewards for taking innovation risks. Schemes must remain affordable for industry compliance.123
Why — This framework would lower compliance costs and secure financial credits for bio-based producers.45
Impact — Fossil fuel companies face reduced demand as the policy shifts toward renewable feedstock.6
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Response to Policy framework on biobased, biodegradable and compostable plastics

27 Oct 2021

The vision of the Bio-based Industries Consortium (BIC) is to accelerate the innovation and market uptake of bio-based products and to position Europe as a world-leading, competitive bio-based economy where the basic building blocks for chemicals and materials are derived from renewable biological resources. A key advantage for our sector is that we use renewable and recycled feedstock with which we produce recyclable and re-usable materials. BIC is also the private partner in the Bio-based Industries Joint Undertaking (BBI JU), which aims, amongst others, to foster innovation in R&D projects on bio-based plastics (BBPs) and biodegradable and compostable plastics (BDCP) – and more broadly biobased materials which don’t currently fit the definition of a bio-plastic. All these can deliver new benefits and market applications which help reduce, reuse and recycle waste. In our view, transformative and sustainable investments require a reliable and fair regulatory framework. Therefore, BIC welcomes the consultation on the roadmap for Policy Framework on biobased, biodegradable and compostable plastics – but would welcome it being expanded to include a broader range of sustainable and high performing biomaterials equally capable of replacing fossil-based plastics. Biobased materials can include solutions that use bioprocessing or biological processes to make products, including plastics and packaging. We call for the creation of a supportive and coherent policy framework to help deliver the sustainable benefits of BBP and BCDP under the European Green Deal. Developing a truly circular bioeconomy, enabling innovation and attracting new investments can ensure the overall reduction of waste and the efficient recovery, re-use, and recycling of both natural and manufactured resources. Finally, such a framework should contribute significantly towards closing carbon and nutrient loops from primary production. Like for bio-based products in other applications, bio-plastics can help to reduce the life-cycle environmental impacts of plastics. In material value chains, the introduction of sustainable bio-based and other renewable feedstock into products can have a positive climate impact, and are needed to complement recycled feedstocks by covering unavoidable carbon losses of recycling. Generating circular bio-based loops has a huge GHG savings potential: - Through substituting fossil emission intensive products and the atmospheric CO2 remaining stored in bio-based products throughout their lifespan. - Many bio-based products are recyclable. Furthermore, biodegradability offers an option that at the end of the life-cycle, the product can be composted (to improve soil quality) and/or nutrients can be returned to soil to promote the growth of new biomass. Polymers that biodegrade also in open environments (marine, soil) provide solutions to reduce microplastics pollution. - Bio-based feedstocks can provide an immediate alternative to the use of fossil resources in the production of 'drop-in bioplastics' manufacture at minimum infrastructure costs - while providing additional opportunities to EU farmers to valorize their renewable sugar & starch resources ('A drop-in bioplastics is a kind of "bio-similar" copy of the petrochemical plastics but it's made from biomass instead of fossil-oil. The drop-in bioplastics uses the same pathway as the petrochemical plastics.') The potential for bio-based and bio-degradable plastics to contribute towards climate neutrality in a way of taking into account the particularities of biobased products e.g. applying LCA methods that take appropriately into account carbon sequestration. That requires the establishment of a reliable and science-based environmental sustainability assessment tool (or system) of bio-based products and processes, and vis-à-vis fossil-based products.
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Response to European Bioeconomy Policy: Stocktaking and future developments

30 Jul 2021

A strong European bio-based sector is indispensable to achieve the European Green Deal’s ambitions. For transforming further the EU economy with the economic, social and environmental ambition of the Green Deal, while making it more resilient, we need to give the Bioeconomy a dedicated policy push. A full implementation of the EU Bioeconomy Strategy and its further revision in light of the EU Green Deal ambitions is therefore essential. The bio-based industries sector already positively contribute to environmental, economic and social challenges by sustainably using domestic renewable feedstock from agriculture, forestry and fisheries as well as residues, bio-waste and recycled carbon emissions, and they process it in state-of-the-art biorefineries to provide bio-based solutions for our customers and consumers. With about 700 billion EUR turnover and 3.6 million people employed, the bio-based industries helped to alleviate the impact of the pandemic crisis by keeping essential services running and maintaining green jobs. The long-term advantage of the bioeconomy lies in the fact that through integrated and innovative circular operations food, feed, bio-based products and materials, services and energy can be produced. The bio-based industries help to reduce Europe’s dependency on fossil-based resources, sustain healthy ecosystems and achieve the climate neutrality goal. The bio-based industries integrate ‘traditional’industrial sectors including the primary sector into innovative value chains in making the European bioeconomy the global leader. The bio-based industries can also make use of existing infrastructure, maximising productivity and enabling rapid transformation. There have been several attempts to enable the bioeconomy sector to grow efficiently in the EU, and the EU Green Deal should be the obvious framework to boost the bioeconomy to embrace its full potential. More actions need to be taken to make Europe benefiting and having our industry fully deploying its potential for a green recovery, in particular: - Setting-up by end of 2021 the institutional private-public partnership ‘Circular Bio-based Europe’ under HorizonEurope. This will keep R&D and (private) investments for sustainable and bio-based solutions in Europe. - Better recognising the importance of the bioeconomy in the European Green Deal by implementing all the policy recommendations within the EU Bioeconomy Strategy. - A better understanding of the opportunities and challenges of comparing fossil-based versus bio-based feedstock Life Cycle Assessments. All technologies and products should demonstrate their sustainability credentials on the same level playing field. - A coherent EU regulatory framework is desperately needed across policy sectors by defining the framework conditions for a sustainable bioeconomy, improving the access to recyclable and bio-based products and developing a product policy that encourages the use of sustainable and innovative bio-based solutions. This concerns policy areas and issues such as Sustainable Finance and Taxonomy, Circular Economy Action Plan, Sustainable products, Ecodesign, biobased and biodegradable plastics, a a holistic definition of processing residues, Chemicals Sustainable Strategy, Industrial Strategy, Biodiversity Strategy and the Farm to Fork Strategy etc - In the context of ‘End of Life’, biodegradable and compostable characteristics of bio-based products and materials need to be acknowledged as a key avenue to achieve circularity by keeping carbon in the loop. - Reinstate the ‘Bioeconomy Circle’ back into the current EU Commission vision of the Circular Economy – as the Ellen McArthur Foundation originally proposed it. We need a more holistic view beyond fossil material recycling, and which includes the use of renewable resources for designing products and processes through the creation of interlinks among different sectors: agriculture, aquatic, forestry, materials, chemicals, energy, packaging etc.
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Response to Climate change mitigation and adaptation taxonomy

18 Dec 2020

The Bio-based Industry Consortium (BIC) is Europe’s leading industry association, putting circularity, innovation and sustainability at the heart of the European bioeconomy and the private partner in the €3.7 billion public-private partnership with the EU - the Bio-based Industries Joint Undertaking (BBI JU) . Our industry members cover the whole bio-based value chain and our associate members represent academia, research organisations, trade associations. A cornerstone of the bioeconomy are biorefineries valorising biomass, by- and co- products and waste feedstock into bio-based products, and hence replacing fossil-based feedstock by bio-based feedstock. In the bio-based industry sector, land use and food security are optimised through a sustainable, resource-efficient and largely waste-free utilisation of feedstock from within the European Union, and therefore contributing significantly to a circular economy. For many projects our members are engaged in, the focus is on sourcing feedstock from residues, by-products, waste (side-streams, bio-waste), biogenic CO2 emissions, purpose-grown crops produced on marginal land) and coverting these into high added-value products. However, Annex I of the draft delegated act refers to the uses of agricultural raw materials for industrial and energy applications, stating that a key criterion is that “Food or feed crops are not used as bio-based feedstock for the manufacture”. In addition, according to the draft delegated act e.g. ordinary, current sustainable forest management practices would not be eligible activities for sustainable finance. This proposal is not in line with the existing EU legislation on sustainability criteria as agreed in the recast of the Renewable Energy Directive. General remarks: • Our assessment of the impact is that large parts of the EU bioeconomy risk being considered as unsustainable for taxonomy purposes, even though their primary purpose is to produce, process and add value to renewable resources as feedstock for making innovative, value-added everyday products and materials. This is of great concern because of the repercussions such wording would have in terms of investments and forthcoming policies. • We would like to stress that sustainability has three dimensions (environmental, social and economic). • We would also like to remind that that when establishing and updating the technical screening criteria, the Commission should take into account “relevant Union law”. The taxonomy proposal has to be in line with the existing EU-legislation. Specific concerns - Make sure that ‘wastes & residues’ are included as feedstocks, and that the integration of CCU is included within Annex I 3.5, 5.12 & 5.13. - As of page 24 of ANNEX I: afforestation, rehabilitation and restoration of forests, reforestation, improved forest management and conservation forestry are not in line with the existing sustainability requirements agreed in the recast of the Renewable Energy Directive Based on the comments above, we would respectfully request your support in deleting the articles excluding the food/feed crops use for materials. In particular the following sentences of the draft delegated act: - Page 89: Food or feed crops are not used as bio-based feedstock for the manufacture of organic basic chemicals - Page 95: Food or feed crops are not used as bio-based feedstock for the manufacture of plastic in primary form - Page 126: Food and feed crops are not used in the activity for the manufacture of biofuels used in transport - Page 164: Anaerobic digestion of bio-waste: in the dedicated bio-waste treatment plants, bio-waste constitutes at least 90% of the input feedstock, measured in weight, as an annual average, and the share of other input material is less than or equal to 10% of the input feedstock. Such other input material may not include food or feed crops
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Response to EU Methane Strategy

4 Aug 2020

For the bio-based industries, methane is a potential gaseous feedstock, as is carbon dioxide. Our industry contributes by avoiding methane getting into the atmosphere and having a harmful climate impact by using it as a feedstock, converting it into valuable products, with values over and above the value of methane in fuel. We believe that carbon-containing sources should primarily be routed to the bio-based industry for products and services, rather than to fuel/energy. Most of the methane as potential feedstock would be available via waste handling steps resulting in biogas (mainly by the agriculture sector) or via syngas (by various industry sectors through gasification or pyrolysis steps of biomass waste or other carbon-containing waste). Examples of this include: - In the current Strategic Innovation and Research Agenda (SIRA 2020) of the Bio-Based Industries Joint Undertaking (BBI JU), the valorisation of manure and/or bio-waste from agriculture into value-adding products via biogas/bio-methane is being covered. - In the 2020 Annual Work Programme call (AWP2020) of the BBI JU, there is a call for a demonstration topic (BBI2020.SO1.D2) : Use biogenic gaseous carbon to increase feedstock availability for the industry. Eligible feedstocks include methane and carbon dioxide from biogas or syngas plants. - In the SIRA 2030 for a possible partnership Circular Bio-based Europe (under HorizonEurope), methane is included as a relevant gaseous feedstock. The Bio-based Industries Consortium (BIC): BIC is Europe’s leading industry association, putting circularity, innovation and sustainability at the heart of the European bioeconomy and the private partner in the €3.7 billion public-private partnership with the EU - the Bio-based Industries Joint Undertaking (BBI JU) . BIC’s mission is to build new circular bio-based value chains and to create a favorable business and policy climate to accelerate market uptake.
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Response to Farm to Fork Strategy

12 Mar 2020

With regard to proposed achievements in the Roadmap for the Farm to Fork Strategy, the Bio-Based Industries Consortium (BIC) has the following considerations: • The bioeconomy is part of the solution to many objectives of the Farm To Fork strategy • The bioeconomy contributes to sustainable food production and processing • The bioeconomy is circular by nature, using all fractions of renewable resources and keeping the carbon recycled within the life cycle of the product. • The advantage of the bioeconomy lies in the fact that through integrated and innovative circular operations food, feed, bio-based products, services and bioenergy can be produced. Thereby replacing fossil carbon-based chemicals, materials, fuels and energy while preserving ecosystems • The circular economy and the bioeconomy are partners in sustainability (EEA Report No 8/2018). • A sustainable bioeconomy approach enables the return of the necessary ingredients to the soil to increase soil carbon content and avoid depletion, while furthering the use of compost as a fertilizer • A sustainable circular bioeconomy uses water efficiently and responsibly and delivers solutions to increase availability of clean water • A sustainable circular bioeconomy uses natural resources responsibly and eliminates pollution of the biosphere • Innovative business models are able to close local biomaterial loops The initiatives in the Farm to Fork Strategy should there take the following elements into consideration: • Facilitate market uptake of innovative bio-based products. • The proposed partnership under Horizon Europe for a “Circular Bio-Based Europe” is essential to the goals of Farm To Fork Strategy • Where bio-waste cannot be avoided, it should be made available for valorisation (and not for landfill or incineration). • Utilise new and available feedstock sustainably and generate value-adding products with minimal environmental impact e.g. safe, nutritious and diverse food and feed for humans and animals, and achieving a sustainable consumption of animal and plant-based proteins; • The supporting policies for the bioeconomy are still loosely connected, and more synergy could be created. This includes apredictable and stable EU policy framework for and long-term commitment to the bio-based industry sector, in particular on the implementation of UN SDG’s and with regard to the Common Agricultural Policy. • Coherence between EU product regulations and R&D policies to avoid that R&D investments into bio-based products are not banned from market entry tomorrow. This would require a stronger coordination mechanism between the different DGs in the EU Commission. • A coherent policy approach regarding regulations impacting bio-based products and markets and the use of new technologies such as biological recycling of waste carbon. Regulators should ensure that any, legislative developments be assessed for possible unintended barriers towards innovative bio-based products. • For bio-based products, address existing challenges through different national rules and consider opportunities such as CE-marking, green label and green public procurement.
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Response to A new Circular Economy Action Plan

20 Jan 2020

The Bio-based Industries Consortium (BIC) has the following remarks on the roadmap for the EU Circular Economy Action Plan and on the outlined achievements: • The bioeconomy is considered being as the “green motor” of the circular economy. • The bioeconomy is circular by nature, using all fractions of renewable resources and keeping the carbon recycled within the life cycle of the product. Whilst the circular economy focuses on “maintaining the value of products, materials and resources in the economy for as long as possible”, many of the bioeconomy’s elements go beyond this objective, including aspects focused on product functionality (new chemical building blocks, new (biological) processing routes, new functionalities and properties of products). • The advantage of the bioeconomy lies in the fact that through integrated and innovative circular operations food, feed, bio-based products, services and bioenergy can be produced. Thereby replacing fossil carbon-based chemicals, materials, fuels and energy while preserving ecosystems • The circular economy and the bioeconomy are partners in sustainability (EEA Report No 8/2018). • With a a sizeable turnover of about 700 billion EUR and employing 3.6 million people in the EU-28 in 2016, the bio-based industries make are an important sector within the bioeconomy Examples of circularity include, amongst others: • Returning the necessary ingredients to the soil to increase soil carbon content and avoid depletion, while furthering the use of compost as a fertilizer • Achieving societal acceptance and market uptake of innovative circular bioeconomy applications through strategic value chain partnerships; • A sustainable circular bioeconomy uses water efficiently and responsibly and delivers solutions to increase availability of clean water • A sustainable circular bioeconomy uses natural resources responsibly and eliminates pollution of the biosphere • Innovative business models are able to close local biomaterial loops An EU Circular Economy Action plan should there take the following elements into consideration • Facilitate market uptake of innovative bio-based products including products that use biological processes to recycle carbon through appropriate framework conditions at EU and national level to transition from the innovation phase into commercial deployment quickly. This includes setting-up a partnership for a “Circular Bio-Based Europe” under Horizon Europe. • The supporting policies for the bioeconomy are still loosely connected, and more synergy could be created. This includes apredictable and stable EU policy framework for and long-term commitment to the bio-based industry sector, in particular on the implementation of UN SDG’s. • A new product policy should aim boost design for circularity. Bio-based packaging could represent an opportunity to promote renewable sources for the production of packaging through both the use of more secondary raw materials as well as virgin raw materials. • Coherence between EU product regulations and R&D policies to avoid that R&D investments into bio-based products are not banned from market entry tomorrow, such as biobased, biodegradable & compostable plastics. • A coherent policy approach regarding regulations impacting bio-based products and markets and the use of new technologies such as biological recycling of waste carbon. Regulators should ensure that any, legislative developments be assessed for possible unintended barriers towards innovative bio-based products. • Clear definitions are important for important for the bio-based sector. One example is the generic definition of "biodegradable plastic". The EU Commission should clarify the terminology. bio-plastics can be referred as “biodegradable and compostable”. • For bio-based products, address existing challenges through different national rules and consider opportunities such as CE-marking, green label and green public procurement.
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Meeting with Robert Schröder (Cabinet of Commissioner Carlos Moedas)

6 Nov 2018 · Bio-based industries

Meeting with Tom Tynan (Cabinet of Commissioner Phil Hogan)

18 Sept 2018 · Forestry

Meeting with Andrew Bianco (Cabinet of Vice-President Karmenu Vella)

18 Sept 2018 · Bio-economy

Response to Update of the 2012 Bioeconomy Strategy

19 Mar 2018

The Bio-based Industries Consortium (BIC) believes the EU should seize this opportunity to aim for an ambitious and action-oriented update, taking into account the following: 1. Don't stop the innovation train: The Bio-based Industries Joint Undertaking (BBI JU or "BBI 1.0") has been a success story for the EU's competitiveness by accelerating R&D and innovation, enabling a double-digit growth in 2016, €5 billion of future industry investment and hundreds of thousands of extra jobs . To maintain the EU leadership role in the bioeconomy, continued investment and a second round of the Joint Undertaking - BBI 2.0. - are necessary. Stopping now would mean losing out on investments already made. 2. The EU should champion the bioeconomy: The bioeconomy helps the EU lead in delivering on its circular economy and low-carbon economy goals, as well as on most of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. More ambition and coherence in EU policy-making are required for innovation and bioeconomy business to prosper and to keep knowledge and investments in Europe. 3. Make the EU Bioeconomy Strategy tangible for consumers and businesses and capable of delivering concrete consumer benefits: Promote bio-based products and raise public awareness in order to create an EU internal market for sustainable alternatives to fossil-based products. The EU is a global leader in the bioeconomy and few sectors match the rise of Europe's bio-based industries. Together these sectors represent 9% of the EU's workforce and are worth EUR 2.2 trillion in turnover. The advantage of the bioeconomy lies in the fact that it provides new food, feed and materials, but also can replace fossil carbon-based chemicals, materials, fuels and energy. At the same time, the bioeconomy delivers on growth and jobs, including in regions and rural areas.
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Meeting with Tatu Liimatainen (Cabinet of Vice-President Jyrki Katainen)

16 Feb 2018 · Bioeconomy

Meeting with Daniel Calleja Crespo (Director-General Environment)

18 Jan 2018 · Bioeconomy