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Promouvoir le développement des polymères biosourcés, principalement du PLA afin de remplacer les polymères pétro-sourcés.

Lobbying Activity

Response to Advanced Materials Act

6 Jan 2026

Bio-based and/or compostable materials can play a pivotal role in advancing the EUs strategic objectives by combining environmental performance with industrial competitiveness, two priorities at the heart of the Clean Industrial Deal. To fully unlock the potential of these solutions, the European Union must establish a supportive regulatory framework that promotes their development, production, and market uptake by: 1) implementing market-pull measures; 2) ensuring and facilitating market access; 3) unlocking private and public funding for industrial-scale production and 4) updating existing EU financial instruments.
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Response to EU taxonomy - Review of the environmental delegated act

4 Dec 2025

On the Climate Delegated Act: While EU Taxonomy compliance is often seen as best practice, it has become almost mandatory in practice as many organizations and administrations base their criteria on it. This makes addressing inconsistencies, legal uncertainty, and complex screening criteria essential. Futerro welcomes the review of the Climate and Environmental Delegated Acts of the EU Taxonomy and is pleased to contribute to the discussion surrounding this revision. Futerro is a leading Belgian company in the lactic acid, lactide (two bio-based platform chemicals) and polylactic acid (PLA) sector, a bio-based, industrially compostable and recyclable biopolymer capable of replacing fossil-based plastics in everyday life. We recommend explicitly including bio-based molecules that could replace fossil-based ones such as lactic acid and lactide within the scope of Activity 3.14 Manufacture of organic basic chemicals and its associated technical screening criteria, particularly regarding their substantial contribution to climate change mitigation. For bio-based plastics production, while covered under substantial contribution to climate change mitigation, certain formulations make it difficult to comply with the criteria: (1) We recommend clarifying that first-generation agricultural biomass used for the manufacture of plastics in its primary form contributes substantially to climate change mitigation when it complies with the criteria laid down in Article 29, paragraphs 2 to 5, of Directive (EU) 2018/2001. Current interpretations of the EU Taxonomy for bio-based plastics production remain inconsistent and unclear, creating significant barriers to investment. As a demonstration, the European Investment Bank has excluded first-generation biomass based industrial projects under the EIB Group Paris alignment framework (V 1.1. of Nov. 2023) even if the biomass was considered sustainable according to the Climate Delegated Act. In its 2025 report "Scaling up Europes Bio-based industries," the EIB acknowledges that securing funding is challenging for companies in the bio-based sector within Europe. This not only prevents companies from receiving EIB funding (and due to trickle down effect also from national banks and private investors) but also leads to projects not being realized in Europe. In other words, projects and investments will come to fruition outside of Europe, at Europes expense. (2) We recommend reviewing the GHG emission condition, which requires bio-based plastic GHG Emissions to be lower than those of equivalent fossil-based plastics. This approach creates ambiguity for materials such as PLA, which are entirely derived from bio-based feedstock and therefore lack a clear equivalent fossil-based counterpart for comparison. Rather, bio-based plastics should be compared to the plastic they intend to replace. (3) Currently, the recommended methodology for GHG emissions calculation is the Recommendation 2013/179/EU, which applies to the Product Environmental Footprint (PEF) method and uses a 0/0 accounting approach for biogenic content. This fails to reflect the positive impact of biobased materials in cradle-to-gate scenarios, as it does not represent the biogenic carbon capture from the atmosphere to the crop and then to the product. We therefore encourage a harmonized approach for biogenic carbon accounting based on the -1/+1 approach, as it is crucial to demonstrate the climate change benefit of biobased materials. This constraint was recently recognized in COM(2025) 960. (4) We recommend considering plastic in primary form fully manufactured by chemical recycling of plastic waste as a substantial contribution to climate change mitigation without the prerequisite that mechanical recycling is not technically feasible or economically viable. Indeed, this condition discourages investment in chemical recycling technologies such as depolymerization which ensures a higher quality of secondary raw material compar
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Response to Circular Economy Act

4 Nov 2025

Futerro welcomes the EU Circular Economy Act and fully supports and recognizes the significant role such a framework can play to advance decarbonization, reduce fossil dependency, and strengthen European competitiveness. As a pioneer in bio-based chemicals and plastics, Futerro emphasizes the strategic role they play in achieving a truly circular and regenerative economy. Bio-based materials like PLA (polylactic acid) offer multiple environmental benefits: they help reduce carbon footprint and enhance EU strategic autonomy by replacing fossil-based imports. PLA can be mechanically recycled, depolymerized, or industrially composted, enabling diverse end-of-life pathways that reduce waste and reliance on virgin resources. To unlock the full potential of bio-based and/or compostable materials, Futerro urges the Commission to: 1. Recognize bio-based and/or compostable materials as circular: Ensure their inclusion in the Circular Economy Act and acknowledge their performance in circularity metrics. 2. Strengthen waste management systems: Scale up collection and recycling infrastructure for recyclable materials like PLA that lack established valorization pathways. Enforce separate biowaste collection and mandate the inclusion of certified compostable plastics into organic recycling streams. Ensure eco-modulated fees reflect bioplastics circularity potential. 3. Improve support and incentives: Introduce market incentives and minimum bio-based content requirements in specific product categories. Promote compostable solutions where they offer clear environmental benefits. Adapt and create funding tools, tax incentives, and regulatory frameworks to support R&D and scale-up of biorefineries and recycling infrastructures. Futerro calls on the Commission to establish robust legislative frameworks that accelerate market adoption and investment in bio-based and/or compostable solutions. These materials are essential to achieving the EUs sustainability, resource efficiency, and industrial resilience goals.
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Meeting with Pascal Canfin (Member of the European Parliament) and TotalEnergies Corbion B.V.

23 Oct 2025 · Bioéconomie et économie circulaire

Meeting with Joanna Drake (Deputy Director-General Research and Innovation)

7 Oct 2025 · L’entreprise belge Futerro, spécialisée dans le plastique biosourcé, a un projet d’implantation en Normandie. Ils ont émis le souhait de rencontrer M. Lemaître pour évoquer cette étude et ses suites. C'est Mme Drake qui les recevra.

Meeting with Arthur Corbin (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Stéphane Séjourné), Vilija Sysaite (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Stéphane Séjourné) and

23 Sept 2025 · Futerro requested the meeting to exchange on biobased plastics

Meeting with Olivér Várhelyi (Commissioner) and

22 Sept 2025 · The role of bioplastic and food contact materials in reducing food waste

Meeting with Heiko Kunst (Head of Unit Climate Action)

11 Sept 2025 · Discussion on project coverage by EU-ETS scope thresholds, benchmarks, CBAM principles, and possible funding opportunities

Meeting with Gaelle Marion (Head of Unit Agriculture and Rural Development) and TotalEnergies SE and NatureWorks LLC

18 Jun 2025 · Bioeconomy - Bioplastics

Meeting with Arthur Corbin (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Stéphane Séjourné)

15 May 2025 · Industrial Policy – Circular Economy

Meeting with Alexandre Adam (Cabinet of President Ursula von der Leyen) and Bio-based Industries Consortium 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 Joan Canton (Cabinet of Commissioner Thierry Breton)

1 Jun 2023 · Bioeconomy, packaging legislation