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Braskem

Braskem Netherlands B.V.

Lobbying Activity

Meeting with Jeannette Baljeu (Member of the European Parliament)

4 Dec 2025 · Bioeconomy Strategy

Meeting with Elsi Katainen (Member of the European Parliament)

20 Nov 2025 · Bioeconomy Strategy

Meeting with Aurel Ciobanu-Dordea (Director Environment) and Neste Oyj

27 Mar 2025 · Exchange of views on the Bioeconomy Strategy and bioplastics

Meeting with Katri Kulmuni (Member of the European Parliament) and Neste Oyj and UPM-Kymmene Oyj

17 Feb 2025 · Biobased plastics in ELVR

Meeting with Jeannette Baljeu (Member of the European Parliament) and Neste Oyj and Borealis AG

16 Jan 2025 · End of life vehicles regulation

Meeting with Pascal Canfin (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur) and Neste Oyj and

7 Jan 2025 · End-of-life of vehicles Regulation

Response to Update of related legislation as a consequence of the new regulation on recycled plastic Food Contact Materials

15 Apr 2024

Braskem supports the major points of concern from the Plastics Europe and Plastics Industry Association (PLASTICS) Positions Papers. We wish to respectfully provide our perspective to some of these points to be taken into consideration by the European Commission. Please see the attached document for our in depth position.
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Meeting with Andreea Ticheru (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager) and Nestlé S.A. and UPM-Kymmene Oyj

4 Mar 2024 · EU Biotech and Biomanufacturing Initiative

Meeting with Sara Cerdas (Member of the European Parliament)

13 Oct 2023 · Reunião com a braskem

Response to Initiative on EU taxonomy - environmental objective

2 May 2023

Excluding bio-based plastics from sustainable finance in the EUs Taxonomy will create barriers to achieving a net-zero circular economy. Almost 40% of European plastics consumption comes from packaging, but currently, more than 98% of the European plastics production derives from fossil fuels . Bio-based plastics from cultivated crops consume less than 0.04% of the global biomass demand, with only 4% being needed to reach the global demand . In the Commissions latest proposal amending the Taxonomy of Sustainable Finance for circular economy, bio-based plastics are precluded in the sustainability criteria for plastic packaging, despite their contribution to circularity, based on a lack of sustainable sourcing criteria. Though there is no legally binding criteria specifically tailored for biobased plastics as of yet, there is also no such criteria for bio-waste plastics which are included in the taxonomy compass. The criteria cited in Taxonomy has been imported from the Renewable Energy Directive , which does include sustainability requirements for agricultural and forestry biomass, as well as bio-waste. If this criterion is sufficient for bio-waste, it must also be sufficient for bio-based. Braskem strongly supports the development of specific sustainability criteria for all biomass plastics. The criteria should include the protection of biodiversity and ecosystems, avoiding inadvertent effects of land use change, and protecting human rights to ensure the development of biobased and biowaste materials are sustainable in the long term. Biomass-based plastics should also be recyclable in existing waste streams to ensure their meaningful contribution to circularity and reduce dependency of fossil resources. Braskem therefore calls on the European Commission to emphasise sustainability principles for all biomass in plastic packaging. The absence of recyclable biomass-based plastic packaging in Taxonomy would exclude this sector from the necessary funding urgently needed to phase-out fossil-based plastics and reach a net-zero circular economy. Bio-waste plastics are vital to this transition, but alone they are not sufficient. All biomass-based plastics need access to funding to scale-up to meet the sustainability goals that the EU has set. Therefore, Braskem calls for the inclusion of bio-based plastics in the EUs Taxonomy for Sustainable Finance, alongside bio-waste plastics, complementing the existing recycled content and reuse targets standards set out in the Taxonomy compass. The rationale for biobased plastics: 1. Biobased plastics from primary biomass can be carbon dated and have verifiable renewable content, allowing for better regulation and consumer transparency . 2. Biobased plastics can be produced as co-products with food and fuel, for example the co-production of ethanol and sugar from sugarcane, diversifying the market applications of the crop without increasing competition between sectors . 3. Biobased plastics contribute, alongside bio-waste and recycled feedstocks, to decoupling the plastics industry from fossil feedstocks.
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Meeting with Salvatore De Meo (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur) and FoodDrinkEurope and

6 Mar 2023 · PPWR

Meeting with Luisa Regimenti (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur) and Nestlé S.A. and

21 Feb 2023 · PPWR

Response to Review of the requirements for packaging and feasibility of measures to prevent packaging waste

7 Feb 2023

Almost 40% of European plastics consumption comes from packaging, but currently, more than 98% of the European plastics production derives from fossil fuels. Braskem therefore calls on the European Parliament and Member States to include biobased content targets for plastics, alongside recycled content mandates, in the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation. It is essential that these biomass-based plastics are drop-in solutions, meaning they fit into traditional plastic packaging value chains and are fully recyclable within existing recycling streams. Adding such targets would actively promote the use of, and investments into, sustainable renewable sources. This would support the plastic packaging sectors shift away from its dependence on virgin fossil resources, a vital step towards achieving climate neutrality. The targets should be compliant with stringent sustainability criteria - including the protection of biodiversity and ecosystems, negating inadvertent effects of land use change, and protecting human rights to ensure the development of biobased materials are sustainable in the long term, as also stated in the EU policy framework on biobased, biodegradable and compostable plastics. The EU has set as its objective to become a climate neutral circular economy and the European Commission has set an ambitious objective to have at least 20% of the carbon used in the chemical and plastic products come from sustainable non-fossil sources by 2030. We firmly believe that incentivising biobased products that demonstrate a reduced carbon footprint, considering their carbon storage potential when compared to fossil-based equivalents, is an important solution to help achieve a carbon neutral circular economy (please see Annex I for the benefits of bio-based plastics). Therefore, Braskem calls for a 10% stand-alone target for biobased plastic content in the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation, complementing the existing recycled content and reuse targets, to be set for 2030, while more ambitious targets should be required for 2040. The rationale behind setting biobased content targets: 1. Biobased plastic targets will have a positive climate impact by reducing the carbon footprint of packaging, due to their carbon removal potential. 2. Biobased raw materials are needed to complement recycled feedstocks by covering unavoidable material losses in production, collecting and recycling. 3. Biobased feedstocks (e.g. biofuels, such as bioethanol and bionaphtha), provide an immediate alternative to the use of fossil resources, and drop-in biobased plastics manufacture at reduced infrastructure costs since downstream investment into polymerization and conversion arent needed.
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Meeting with Bas Eickhout (Member of the European Parliament) and Google and

29 Nov 2022 · Politico's Sustainable Future Week 2022

Response to Amendment of Regulation (EU) No 282/2008 on the recycling of plastic materials to be used as food contact materials

18 Jan 2022

Braskem Netherlands B.V., in line with the UN's sustainable development goals, has made commitments to people and our planet. We have structured our macro objectives in 7 different dimensions: Health and Safety, Economic and Financial Results, Elimination of Plastic Waste, Combating Climate Change, Operational Eco-efficiency, Social Responsibility and Human Rights and Sustainable Innovation. We are also one of the leading global suppliers of sustainable biobased plastics and we are committed to reaching net zero by 2050. Recital nº 3 suggestion: To clarify that certain existing technologies are outside the scope of this regulation, we suggest adding the bracketed language below to Recital nº 3. Commission Regulation (EC) No 282/20084 already established specific requirements for recycling processes to ensure that recycled plastic materials and articles intended for food contact comply with Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No 1935/2004. Regulation (EC) No 282/2008 did however not apply to all recycling technologies. At the time of its adoption, only a few recycling technologies existed, particularly the mechanical recycling of polyethylene terephthalate (‘PET’) and chemical depolymerisation applied by feedstock recycling, as well as plastic materials originating from product loops which are in a closed and controlled chain. Also scraps and off-cuts were being recycled, and functional barriers were used to contain contaminated recycled plastic. While Regulation (EC) No 282/2008 set out rules for plastic recycled with certain of these recycling technologies, the use of other materials was subject to Commission Regulation (EU) No 10/2011. That Regulation however does not define rules for partially depolymerised substances or oligomers, does not allow the presence of contaminants classified as ‘mutagenic’, ‘carcinogenic’ or ‘toxic to reproduction’ when used behind a functional barrier, and requires that impurities are identified and subject to risk assessment in all cases. In addition, innovative novel technologies are constantly being developed. It is, therefore, appropriate to replace Regulation (EC) No 282/2008 with new rules covering all those existing recycling technologies which cannot adequately be regulated by Regulation (EU) No 10/2011 as well as capable of covering future recycling technologies[, and to make clear that existing technologies adequately regulated by (EU) No. 10/2011 (e.g., pyrolysis, use of scraps and off-cuts) will not be subjected to these Regulation requirements.] Article 1 suggestion: To clarify the scope of the regulation and make explicit that monomer manufactured from plastic waste must meet the same specifications as virgin monomer, we suggest adding the bracketed language below to Article 1. 2. This Regulation shall not apply to the use of plastic waste to manufacture substances included in the Union list of authorised substances in accordance with Article 5 of Regulation (EU) No 10/2011 when intended for subsequent use in accordance with that Regulation. [Thus, monomers manufactured from plastic waste must fulfill the same suitable purity and technical quality requirements under Article 8 of Regulation (EU) 10/2011 as monomers obtained from non-recycled sources.]
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Response to Policy framework on biobased, biodegradable and compostable plastics

27 Oct 2021

Braskem, one of the leading producers of Biobased Plastics (BBPs), supports the European Commission intention to bring an evidence-based approach to policymaking for these materials. Sustainability criteria should provide the means to assess whether materials bring “genuine environmental benefits”. Sustainably-sourced biobased drop-ins are recyclable, generating economic growth based on a circular carbon. Furthermore, Braskem believes that: - BBPs that achieve a significantly improved GHG emission saving compared to the fossil alternative, and are able to demonstrate compliance with sustainability criteria under RED II, should be promoted by policy instruments; - The development of a mandatory EC Biobased Plastic Label could increase acceptance of BBPs; - The use of biological feedstock is complementary to the other concepts of the circular economy for plastics, such as incentivizing recycling and eliminating leakage; and as such we recommend that the use of biological feedstock is placed on an equal, or similar, footing to recycled feedstock; - the European Commission’s Policy Framework should take a medium to long-term approach to the role BBPs can play, developing interim targets for BBPs in order to provide certainty and support the sector to bring sustainable investment in production capacity and R&D; - the Commission should ensure a playing field exists between biobased plastics (and other materials) and biofuels, and recommends that it begin by identifying and removing any unnecessary or arbitrary economic barriers that prevent or hamper access to feedstock for the material sector. We attach our full position paper, and look forward to contributing constructively on this important topic.
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Meeting with Helena Braun (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Frans Timmermans) and Plastics Europe and

13 Oct 2021 · European Green Deal and chemical recycling