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EBIC

The European Biostimulants Industry Council (EBIC) promotes plant biostimulants for sustainable agriculture and industry development.

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Biostimulant industry demands alignment of organic rules with fertiliser standards

18 Nov 2025
Topic — The consultation reviews EU organic rules to simplify production and avoid trade disruptions.
Message — EBIC urges aligning organic rules with fertiliser laws to include missing material categories. They advocate for removing unworkable restrictions on animal by-products and hydrolysed proteins.12
Why — This would lower compliance costs and speed up approvals for new biostimulants.3
Impact — Consumers seeking strict avoidance of factory-farmed inputs may face reduced transparency.4
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Meeting with Piotr Müller (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur) and Prospero & Partners

10 Nov 2025 · Omnibus VI

Response to Circular Economy Act

6 Nov 2025

As farmers face increasing pressuresfrom climate stress to market volatilitythey need access to a broad toolbox of innovative, sustainable solutions. The updated Circular Economy Act (CEA) must support greater market access for circular products, such as specific plant biostimulants, which play a crucial role in helping farmers remain competitive while enhancing resilience and sustainability. Increasing access to circular plant biostimulants is essential to strengthening Europes strategic autonomy, environmental stewardship, and food security. The plant biostimulant sector is among the most innovative and sustainability-oriented segments of the agricultural input industry, investing more on average in R&D than other plant input sectors. These investments are generating tools that contribute to more circular, climate-smart, and resource-efficient agriculture. However, regulatory fragmentation and persistent market access barriers are hindering the sectors growth in the EU and encouraging companies to shift investment elsewhereputting jobs, innovation, and Europes food system resilience at risk. A thriving European circular economy must deliver clear benefits for farmers by ensuring access to these tools and supporting their adoption. This is especially urgent given the increasingly volatile conditions under which Europes farmers must operate. A thriving circular economy in Europe can only truly support European farmers once it has addressed the current regulatory challenges facing circular products and materials such as animal by-products. To support the competitiveness of EU agriculture and reinforce Europes leadership in the circular economy, the CEA should include the following concrete measures: - Strategically highlight the importance of circular plant nutrition in the development of a European circular economy. - Establish a coherent and predictable regulatory framework for plant biostimulants and other circular products. - Ensure greater access to the EU Single Market for circular products, including plant biostimulants. - Provide farmers with incentives to adopt plant biostimulants and other circular, sustainable inputs. Further comments and resources from EBIC can be found in the attached file. EBIC remains available to support the Commission in its work on the CEA as it progresses.
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Biostimulant industry urges revision of vague pesticide definitions

14 Oct 2025
Topic — The consultation explores ways to simplify EU rules and reduce administrative burdens for food safety.
Message — The group wants to clarify the law to distinguish biostimulants from pesticides. They suggest changing the wording from 'influencing' to 'interfering with' plant life processes. This would ensure products that improve plant nutrition are not wrongly restricted.12
Why — The industry would benefit from lower administrative costs and faster access to the European market.3
Impact — Regulators would lose their broad authority to classify borderline products as strictly regulated pesticides.4
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EBIC Urges Commission to Include Biostimulants in Nature Credits

30 Sept 2025
Topic — The European Commission is seeking feedback on a roadmap for establishing nature credits.
Message — EBIC requests that plant biostimulants be recognized as eligible interventions within the nature credits framework. They propose using existing EU fertilising product regulations as the baseline for certification and monitoring.12
Why — Official recognition would allow the industry to access new green finance streams and increase sales.34
Impact — Synthetic fertilizer producers face lower demand as biostimulants improve nutrient use efficiency and reduce requirements.56
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Biostimulants group demands simpler EU fertilising product market rules

19 Sept 2025
Topic — Evaluation of the effectiveness and efficiency of the EU Fertilising Products Regulation.
Message — EBIC requests a revision of the regulation to simplify access for innovative materials currently excluded. They advocate for a criteria-based approach for micro-organisms and the restoration of normal risk-based chemical requirements.12
Why — Harmonized rules and reduced administrative burdens would lower compliance costs for biostimulant manufacturers.3
Impact — Farmers lose access to sustainable tools that improve nutrient efficiency and agricultural competitiveness.4
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European Biostimulants Industry Council urges regulatory simplification

23 Jun 2025
Topic — The European Commission is revising its strategy for a circular and competitive bioeconomy.
Message — EBIC requests improved Single Market access and a predictable regulatory framework. They also propose financial incentives for farmers to adopt sustainable biobased inputs.123
Why — Streamlined regulations would prevent biostimulant companies from moving their R&D investments outside Europe.45
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Biostimulants council urges EU to remove agricultural biotech barriers

11 Jun 2025
Topic — This consultation seeks views on creating a new legislative framework for biotechnology.
Message — The council calls for a predictable regulatory environment that supports innovative biological solutions in agriculture. They advocate for removing internal market barriers to help farmers access essential plant biostimulants.123
Why — Streamlined regulations would improve returns on investment and prevent companies from moving innovation abroad.456
Impact — European workers and the farming sector lose out as innovation and jobs move to other global regions.78
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Meeting with Flavio Facioni (Cabinet of Commissioner Olivér Várhelyi)

11 Jun 2025 · Regulatory Simplification to Unlock Circular Innovation for Plant Biostimulants

Response to EU Start-up and Scale-up Strategy

17 Mar 2025

Scaling up innovative agricultural solutions and businesses is essential for Europe's strategic autonomy, sustainability, and food security. However, regulatory barriers prevent promising technologies, such as plant biostimulants, and their pioneering businesses from reaching their full potential in the EU. The FPR must shift toward a criteria-based approach rather than depending on rigid positive lists. A more adaptable system would enable the Single Market to function effectively and allow innovation to reach European farmers without unnecessary delays, and empower biostimulant businesses in the EU to scale up, rather than take their solutions elsewhere. If the EU is committed to boosting competitiveness, sustainability, and strategic autonomy, it must ensure that its regulations support, rather than hinder, business' ability to scale up. Completing the single market and ensuring businesses can operate in a coherent and consistent regulatory landscape is vital to promoting Europe's competitiveness. The EU must act now to reform the Fertilising Products Regulation (FPR) and align its regulatory framework with innovation, ensuring that European businesses can grow within the Single Market rather than seeking opportunities elsewhere. You can find more information in the document attached. EBIC is the European Biostimulants Industry Council, the trade association for plant biostimulants in Europe. Founded in 2011, our vision is sustainable agriculture supported by the global adoption of plant biostimulants. Find out more: www.biostimulants.info
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Biostimulant industry urges agri-food focus in EU water strategy

4 Mar 2025
Topic — The consultation addresses water scarcity and management through a multi-annual resilience plan.
Message — EBIC wants the agri-food sector to be central to the strategy while promoting plant biostimulants. They request reduced regulatory barriers and financial incentives for farmers to adopt these tools.12
Why — Streamlining regulation and subsidizing adoption would increase demand and market share.34
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Biostimulant industry urges reform to unlock the EU single market

31 Jan 2025
Topic — The EU consultation addresses barriers to the cross-border movement of services and goods.
Message — EBIC requests that the EU replaces rigid ingredient lists with a flexible, standards-based approval system. They also want simpler rules to remove contradictions between fertiliser and chemical laws.12
Why — A criteria-based system would reduce administrative burdens and accelerate product market entry.34
Impact — Inconsistent regulations increase costs for farmers and limit their access to innovative tools.56
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Response to Aligning the biodegradability criteria for polymers in EU fertiliisng products to the REACH restriciton on microplastics

5 Apr 2024

The European Biostimulants Industry Council (EBIC) welcomes the proposal from the European Commission for a Commission Delegated Regulation amending Regulation (EU) 2019/1009 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards the Enterococcaceae and presuming conformity of EU fertilising products without verification, but would like to support the suggestion from the microbiology experts within the European Committee for Standardization and its Technical Committees on Soil Improvers and Growing Media (CEN/TC 223), Fertilisers (CEN/TC 260) and Plant Biostimulants (CEN/TC 455) to replace the words Escherichia coli or Enterococcaceae by Escherichia coli or enterococci, in line with the arguments provided by CEN experts.
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Response to Evaluation of the Regulation 2019/515 on the Mutual Recognition of Goods

29 Jan 2024

Please see the contribution from the European Biostimulants Industry Council (EBIC) in the attached file. In summary, while Regulation (EU) 2019/515 remains a key mandatory EU tool and performs well in certain countries, such cases remain rare, and plant biostimulant manufacturers often give up on making use of the principle and problem-solving procedures in place. EU Member States apply the principle in very different ways, not always in a transparent manner, increasing legal insecurity for businesses.
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Biostimulants industry council calls for flexible EU soil standards

3 Nov 2023
Topic — This consultation gathers views on a proposed directive for monitoring and restoring soil health.
Message — EBIC requests flexibility in soil health indicators to account for regional differences and land uses. They also urge the Commission to avoid double legislation and provide financial aid for farmers.12
Why — Reducing regulatory duplication would help manufacturers avoid the costs of meeting redundant industrial requirements.3
Impact — Farmers risk being unfairly penalized by a simplified system that ignores regional soil variety.4
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Response to Simplification and digitalisation of labels on chemicals (CLP, Detergents, Fertilising Products)

26 May 2023

EBIC welcomes the Commission proposal on optional digital labelling. EBIC calls for the introduction of a criterion for professional users versus non-professional users, so that digitisation for products intended for professional users can become a reality. As it stands, the proposal on digital labelling does not go far enough, and most EBIC members would not invest in creating digital labels. As a second best, EBIC calls for the mandatory labelling elements instructions for intended use including those concerning application rates, timing and frequency, and target plants or mushrooms and recommended storage conditions to bear an asterisk in Annex III of the FPR. Please find EBIC's feedback into the attached PDF document. Thank you
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Biostimulant industry slams "unworkable" rules on animal by-products

21 Oct 2022
Topic — New rules for using animal by-products in fertilizers without additional official controls.
Message — The industry requests deleting unworkable mixing restrictions and packaging requirements. They also demand reclassifying hydrolysed proteins as safe based on existing scientific risk assessments.12
Why — This would allow manufacturers to maintain standard operating procedures and reduce unnecessary costs.3
Impact — Environmental goals suffer as the proposal fails to support circular economy ambitions.4
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Biostimulant industry urges EU recognition in nutrient management plan

26 Apr 2022
Topic — The EU is developing an action plan to manage nutrients efficiently and reduce environmental pollution.
Message — EBIC requests that the plan explicitly includes plant biostimulants and prioritizes nutrient use efficiency indicators. They advocate for removing regulatory barriers to nutrient recycling and innovative microorganisms.123
Why — Official recognition would facilitate market access and promote the uptake of biostimulant technologies.4
Impact — Fixed fertilizer reduction targets could undermine EU production capacity and global food security.5
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Response to Recommendation for strengthened actions against antimicrobial resistance

24 Mar 2022

The European Biostimulants Industry Council (EBIC) would like to express the commitment of the plant biostimulants industry to avoid contributing to the problem of antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Although the use of microbial plant biostimulants is not considered to be a notable factor in the current AMR crisis in public health, EBIC members are committed to selecting microorganisms that are beneficial to plants which do not cause human or animal diseases, and also to screen selected microorganisms against undesirable AMR traits. EBIC maintains this commitment to public safety while working together with the European Commission and the Member States to define the guidelines for placing innovative microbial plant biostimulants on the market under the Fertilising Products Regulation [Regulation (EU) 2019/1009]. More detailed comments can be found in the attached document.
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Response to Soil Health Law – protecting, sustainably managing and restoring EU soils

16 Mar 2022

The European Biostimulants Industry Council (EBIC) represents European producers of plant biostimulants. EBIC’s mission is to ensure biostimulant technologies are valued as integral to sustainable agriculture, while securing an enabling regulatory framework for all of them. You can download EBIC's contribution to this call for evidence on soil health in the PDF attached. Find out more: www.biostimulants.eu
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Response to Technical amendments to the Fertilising Products Regulation

7 Mar 2022

Please find EBIC's comments in the attached paper.
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Response to Waste Framework review to reduce waste and the environmental impact of waste management

22 Feb 2022

The European Biostimulants Industry Council (EBIC) welcomes the revision of the EU waste framework and would like to contribute to the call for evidence for an impact assessment of the revision of the Waste Framework Directive (WFD) with the comments detailed in the attached document and outlined below. Plant biostimulants are part of the management portfolio that European farmers routinely use to optimise plant yields and ensure maximum crop quality with the lowest environmental impact . Under the current global change scenario, plant biostimulants have the potential to become key tools to achieve the EU Green Deal targets and optimise the use of agricultural inputs while preserving ecosystem health. In addition, plant biostimulants usually combine a wide range of components (seaweed extracts, humic substances, protein hydrolysates, microorganisms, inorganic and organic substances, etc.) that may include by-products from other value chains, thus making a valuable contribution to the circular economy. However, the use of these by-products as raw materials for the formulation of plant biostimulants is often hindered by discrepancies between EU member states in their definition of waste and by-products, and bureaucratic complications derived from the implementation of the current WFD [Directive 2008/98/EC] in the different member states. Therefore, EBIC would like to encourage harmonisation in the definition and requirements for the use of by-products and waste in the different member states in order to facilitate the revalorisation of some of these materials as components of plant biostimulants while ensuring human, animal and environmental safety.
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Response to Agronomic efficiency and safety criteria for by-products in EU fertilising products

13 Jan 2022

The European Biostimulants Industry Council (EBIC) welcomes the opportunity to comment of this draft delegated regulation laying down criteria on agronomic efficiency and safety for the use of by-products in EU fertilising products, and would like to make the comments gathered in the attached document.
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Response to Sustainable food system – setting up an EU framework

26 Oct 2021

The European Biostimulants Industry Council (EBIC) promotes the contribution of plant biostimulants to making agriculture more sustainable and resilient and in doing so promotes the growth and development of the European Biostimulants Industry. EBIC strongly welcomes this initiative which aims to make the EU food system increasingly sustainable. In particular, EBIC welcomes the objective of strengthening our food system’s resilience to ensure lasting food security in the face of climate change and biodiversity loss, including by favouring bio-based solutions. EBIC would like to take the opportunity of this open consultation to explain how plant biostimulants can respond to the objectives of this new initiative, and help to build a sustainable EU food system for the future. EBIC also welcomes the proposal to ensure that food safety and sustainability policies are developed in an integrated manner at EU-level. You can find our contribution in full in the PDF attached. To find out more about plant biostimulants and EBIC, visit www.biostimulants.eu
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Response to Agriculture - List of products and substances authorised in organic production

23 Apr 2021

Not all plant biostimulants are used in organic production. Nonetheless, organic production is an important market for plant biostimulants and plant biostimulants are a valuable tool for organic production. In this context, the European Biostimulants Industry Council (EBIC) would like to offer its feedback on the draft annexes to the new regulation on organic farming, with a view to securing a pragmatic, workable, and innovation-friendly framework. Having examined the Draft Implementing Regulation authorising certain products and substances for use in organic production and establishing their lists and its Annexes, EBIC would like to submit the comments in the document attached. The European Biostimulant Industry Council (EBIC) promotes the contribution of plant biostimulants to make agriculture more sustainable, circular and resilient and in doing so promotes the growth and development of the European Biostimulant Industry. Ranging from micro enterprises to multinational companies, the majority of biostimulant producers active in the European market are members of EBIC. Our code of conduct embodies the commitment of EBIC’s members to place plant biostimulants on the market in a way that promotes transparency and allows farmers to make informed choices about the additional benefits that biostimulants can bring to their crop management systems. Find out more: www.biostimulants.eu
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Response to Statistics on Agricultural Input and Output

31 Mar 2021

EBIC supports the objectives of the proposal for a new regulation on Farming statistics – agricultural inputs and outputs (updated rules). It is said that you cannot manage what you don’t measure, so adapting data collection to evolving policy needs and innovation makes sense. For example, the existing NACE codes related to agricultural inputs ignore non-chemical products and therefore overlook trends towards systems thinking in agricultural production and the growing role of bio-based innovations. You can find EBIC's full contribution in the PDF attached. The European Biostimulant Industry Council (EBIC) advocates an operating environment that creates a truly European market for biostimulants and recognises their contribution to sustainable agricultural production, green innovation, economic growth and other societal objectives. Find out more on www.biostimulants.eu
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Response to Technical amendments to the annexes to the Fertilising Products Regulation

15 Mar 2021

Please find EBIC feedback attached. Thanks a lot.
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Response to Towards a strong and sustainable EU Algae sector

18 Jan 2021

Algae is an important component of a number of plant biostimulant products. As the European organisation representing a large proportion of biostimulant producers in Europe, the European Biostimulants Industry Council (EBIC) would like to offer its insights on this Roadmap. Please find EBIC's considerations about the EU Roadmap for the “Blue bioeconomy – towards a strong and sustainable EU algae sector” attached here. Find out more about plant biostimulants: www.biostimulants.eu
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Response to New EU Soil Strategy - healthy soil for a healthy life

10 Dec 2020

Plant biostimulants help to enrich soil biodiversity while reducing soil degradation and erosion. As the European organisation representing the biostimulant industry in Europe, EBIC would like to offer its insights on the Roadmap for new EU soil strategy. The European Biostimulants Industry Council (EBIC) represents European producers of plant biostimulants. EBIC’s mission is to ensure biostimulant technologies are valued as integral to sustainable agriculture, while securing an enabling regulatory framework for all of them.
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Response to Action plan for the development of EU organic production

23 Oct 2020

The European Biostimulants Industry Council (EBIC) has the attached considerations about the EU Action Plan for the development of EU organic production. Organic production is an important market for plant biostimulants. As the European organisation representing a large proportion of biostimulant producers in Europe, EBIC would like to offer its insights on the Roadmap for the action plan for the development of EU organic production. Find out more about plant biostimulants and EBIC: www.biostimulants.eu
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Response to Sustainable use of pesticides – revision of the EU rules

6 Aug 2020

Please find comments from the European Biostimulants Industry Council (EBIC) in the document attached.
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Response to EU Strategy on Adaptation to Climate Change

30 Jun 2020

EBIC welcomes the proposed new policy actions in the Roadmap on the EU Strategy on Adaptation to Climate Change, and would like to highlight the potential contribution of the agricultural sector, and specifically the plant biostimulants industry, in the attached document. The European Biostimulants Industry Council (EBIC) was formed in June 2011 to foster the role of the biostimulants sector in helping agriculture to produce more with less. To do this, EBIC advocates an operating environment that creates a truly European market for biostimulants and recognises their contribution to sustainable agricultural production, green innovation, economic growth, and other European Union (EU) policy objectives.
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Response to Statistics on Agricultural Input and Output

10 Apr 2020

EBIC supports the objectives of the “Strategy for Agricultural Statistics 2020 and beyond”. It is said that you cannot manage what you don’t measure, so adapting data collection to evolving policy needs and innovation makes sense. For example, the existing NACE codes related to agricultural inputs ignore non-chemical products and therefore overlook trends towards systems thinking in agricultural production and the growing role of bio-based innovations. Specifically, the current categories do not cover several of the plant nutrition and soil fertility product categories included in Reg (EU) 2019/1009. If we want to understand the evolving markets for and impacts of tools like plant biostimulants, organic fertilizers, organo-mineral fertilizers, soil improvers, and growing media, data collection needs to cover all these inputs. Only looking at individual nutrients gives an incomplete picture of integrated plant nutrition and soil fertility. We would therefore request that statistics are collected (and NACE codes created) for plant biostimulants and subcategories 1) microbial plant biostimulants 2) non-microbial plant biostimulants. More broadly, it would be helpful to create a new Division in the NACE codes "Manufacturing of Plant Nutrition and Soil Fertility (PN/SF) Products" to accommodate all the products in the new EU Fertilising Products Regulation (FPR), including plant biostimulants. Understanding how these various tools are deployed by farmers will give a much more comprehensive picture of how farmers’ practices are becoming more sustainable, resilient and climate-smart. A PDF formatted version of these comments is attached. We would be happy to discuss any of our suggestions with you.
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Response to Farm to Fork Strategy

16 Mar 2020

[Please see the attached PDF for complementary information on this executive summary of EBIC's remarks on the Farm to Fork Strategy] The European Biostimulants Industry Council (EBIC)advocates an operating environment that creates a truly European market for biostimulants and recognises their contribution to sustainable agricultural production, green innovation, economic growth and other European Union (EU) policy objectives. We would like to stress the following points related to the EU's forthcoming Farm to Fork Strategy: • Coherence across different policy frameworks is critical. • So-called “agricultural biologicals” are a diverse group of products, with similarities as they are often derived from similar sources - e.g. micro-organisms and plant extracts - but have distinct functions. Because the nature and functioning of bio-based products are different than chemistry-based products, the Farm to Fork Strategy would benefit from strengthening the Commission’s and Member State’s capacity in the field of agricultural biologicals, especially microbiology and soil science. • We recommend against the use of terms such as “natural” or “nature based”. Such terms are vague, have no official definition and can be misleading for any product that has undergone any sort of processing (i.e. most products). • Innovation in inputs suitable for organic production would benefit from a criteria-based approach to approval for use in this sector. Furthermore, organic certification is unharmonised; companies wishing to have their agricultural inputs approved for use in organic agriculture receive different evaluations not just from one country to another, but from one certifying body to another. • Achieving climate-smart agriculture is a useful objective. As well as accommodating different production methods, it would speak to mitigation, farmer adaptation and the need to increase the resilience of the agricultural system at both the human and biological levels. • There are ways to reduce plants’ vulnerability to pests and diseases that don’t entail plant protection technologies per se. For example, it is known that maize is more vulnerable to certain pests and diseases before they have four leaves. Giving them ideal nutrition and growth-promoting plant biostimulants can optimize growth and reduce the time the seedling is in this vulnerable stage. • Biostimulants can improve inherent quality of crops in ways that make them less prone to be damaged when they are handled. For example, biostimulants that help reduce splitting, which opens the door to diseases that attack the harvested fruit and rot it. • Plants need a balanced diet of minerals and other beneficial substances like vitamins, enzymes, etc. Blunt numerical targets to reduce fertilizer use may result in unbalanced plant nutrition, which will lead to suboptimal plant growth and thus inefficient resource use. In a worst case, not applying enough plant nutrients can lead to “soil mining”, where the soil’s nutrient reserves are depleted. Biostimulants are part of the integrated soil management portfolio. The European biostimulants was approximately 800 million euros in 2018, with annual growth rates of 10-12% taking it to about 1.5 million euros by 2023. The biostimulants sector is highly innovative, with more than 350 research partnerships with universities and independent research institutes and a reinvestment rate of 5-15% of turnover back into R&D. The EU biostimulants industry is the global leader, today representing roughly half of the global market. Most biostimulants companies based in the EU, even fairly small ones, have a strong international presence. This growing sector represents an opportunity for Europe to demonstrate its competitiveness on a global stage. “Made in the EU” can hence have a positive impact on global sustainability.
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Response to A new Circular Economy Action Plan

20 Jan 2020

European Biostimulants Industry Council on the Roadmap for the EU Circular Economy Action Plan The European Biostimulants Industry Council (EBIC) has in the context of the roadmap for the EU Circular Economy Action Plan the considerations: • Biostimulants are a key enabler for the Circular Economy. One of the pillars of the circular economy is the bioeconomy. • This was already acknowledged in the 2016 Circular Economy action plan and where the EU Fertilizing Product regulation brought biostimulants in its scope. • EBIC advocates for an operating environment that creates a truly European Market for biostimulants and recognizes their contribution to sustainable agriculture, green economy, economic growth and other EU policy objectives. • With regard to proposed achievements in the Roadmap for an EU Circular Economy Action Plan is aiming at, EBIC has the following remarks: Sustainable products policy and empowering consumers: Biostimulants are an additional tool, in particular for the use in the production in the farm and fork sector, for making products more sustainable • The EU circular economy action plan should foster awareness of producers and consumers alike for the use of sustainable alternatives such biostimulants. • “Green products” claims should be substantiated through robust and reliable methods Reducing waste generation and fostering an internal market for secondary raw materials Biostimulants can be derived from re-valorized animal by-products and/or industrial side-streams. Also, discarded plant materials can be used as raw materials for biostimulants production. This conversion of wastes into raw materials helps to reduce waste streams. Moreover, biostimulants help to improve the quality and quantity of biological materials used in agriculture. For example, biostimulants can be sourced for plant and seaweed extracts • The future EU circular economy action plan should foster the use of waste, in particular as regards the end-of-waste status, and to facilitate the cross-border shipment of waste. • The full range of opportunities of closing loops for biological materials must be considered. Addressing enabling conditions such as innovation and investment opportunities The EU biostimulants industry is a global leader, the annual EU market growth is 10-12%. Our sector is also highly innovative, 5-15% of our members turnover is invested into R&D and over 350 R&D partnerships with EU universities and public institution exist. • The EU circular economy action plan should provide a coherent policy approach regarding regulations affecting our sector and the use of new and innovative technologies. • The EU circular actions plan should attract investment to the EU and mobilise private investment into innovative bio-based products. • The EU circular economy action plan should set incentives ABOUT US The European Biostimulants Industry Council (EBIC) was formed in June 2011 to foster the role of the biostimulants sector in helping agriculture to produce more with less. To do this, EBIC advocates an operating environment that creates a truly European market for biostimulants and recognises their contribution to sustainable agricultural production, green innovation, economic growth and other European Union (EU) policy objectives.
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Meeting with Sarah Nelen (Cabinet of First Vice-President Frans Timmermans)

5 Jul 2015 · circular economy

Meeting with Carl-Christian Buhr (Cabinet of Commissioner Phil Hogan)

5 Jun 2015 · The EU's regulatory approach to biostimulants

Meeting with Peter Power (Cabinet of Commissioner Phil Hogan)

5 Jun 2015 · Discussion on Fertiliser Regulation

Meeting with Heidi Jern (Cabinet of Vice-President Jyrki Katainen)

4 Jun 2015 · Circular Economy