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Novonesis

Novonesis is the world leader in biological solutions, working with partners to improve industrial performance while preserving resources.

Lobbying Activity

Meeting with Claire Bury (Deputy Director-General Health and Food Safety) and

19 Jan 2026 · Fermentation derived biosolutions - enzyme labelling and use of food cultures

Novonesis urges EU to recognize enzymes in Circular Economy Act

6 Nov 2025
Topic — This consultation addresses the proposed EU framework for sustainable production and circular economy models.
Message — Novonesis asks that the Act explicitly recognizes enzymes as key circularity enablers. They want an aligned policy framework to reduce administrative complexity.12
Why — Recognition would accelerate the deployment of biosolutions by removing complex regulatory barriers.3
Impact — Traditional chemical and fossil-based sectors may lose market share to biological alternatives.4
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Meeting with Stine Bosse (Member of the European Parliament) and European Biosolutions Coalition

23 Oct 2025 · Event planning: value of biosolutions report launch

Meeting with Stine Bosse (Member of the European Parliament)

17 Sept 2025 · Biotech Act

Novonesis urges EU to prioritize biotech for industrial decarbonization

7 Jul 2025
Topic — The EU is consulting on accelerating investments for industrial decarbonization.
Message — Novonesis wants the Commission to include biotechnologies like enzymes in the decarbonization act. They advocate for linking the new rules with existing green industry laws.12
Why — This would increase market demand for their biotech solutions across heavy industries.3
Impact — Traditional chemical suppliers may face reduced demand as biotech alternatives are prioritized.4
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Meeting with Stéphane Séjourné (Executive Vice-President) and

2 Jul 2025 · EU Clean Industrial Dialogue on Circularity

Novonesis urges EU to prioritize biosolutions in bioeconomy strategy

23 Jun 2025
Topic — The consultation seeks to update the EU's strategy for a circular and competitive bioeconomy.
Message — Novonesis wants a regulatory framework tailored to the unique properties of biosolutions. They also demand priority access to biomass for high-value industrial biotechnology applications.12
Why — Custom regulations would provide faster market access and unlock significant green investment opportunities.34
Impact — Low-value biomass users like bioenergy producers could lose access to limited raw materials.56
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Meeting with Kira Marie Peter-Hansen (Member of the European Parliament) and Novo Nordisk A/S and

13 Jun 2025 · Debate on EU competitiveness

Novonesis urges EU to accelerate biotech product market approvals

11 Jun 2025
Topic — The European Commission is consulting on creating an EU Biotech Act.
Message — Novonesis calls for a regulatory framework that streamlines approval timelines and speeds up market access. They request exemptions from restrictive chemical safety rules for biological solutions like enzymes.12
Why — Streamlined approvals would lower operational costs and increase their international market share.34
Impact — Health advocates lose the safety guarantee provided by hazard-based chemical restrictions.5
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Meeting with Petra Nemeckova (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Teresa Ribera Rodríguez)

13 May 2025 · Contribution of industrial biotechnology and biosolutions to EU competitiveness.

Novonesis urges EU to accelerate biosolutions through regulatory reform

15 Apr 2025
Topic — The European Commission is developing a multi-disciplinary strategy for European life sciences.
Message — The company wants the EU to speed up approvals for nature-based industrial products and update rules to support a green economy. They suggest shifting away from rules designed for chemicals toward a system based on actual product risks.12
Why — Faster approval processes would allow the company to compete globally and reduce significant registration delays.3
Impact — Traditional fossil-based fertilizer producers face market share loss to more sustainable bio-based alternatives.4
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Meeting with Vita Jukne (Cabinet of Commissioner Jessika Roswall)

10 Apr 2025 · Revision of the REACH Regulation

Meeting with Rainer Becker (Director Health and Food Safety)

9 Apr 2025 · Exchange of views on the Biotech Act

Meeting with Taru Haapaniemi (Cabinet of Commissioner Christophe Hansen)

11 Mar 2025 · Vision for Agriculture and Food; discussion on how biosolutions can actively support a modern, competitive, and sustainable European agrifood sector.

Response to List of net-zero technology final products and their main specific components

20 Feb 2025

Novonesis is a global leader in industrial biotechnology and biosolutions, committed to advancing innovation, competitiveness, and sustainability across sectors such as food, animal feed, cleaning, and industrial manufacturing such as energy-intensive industries like pulp & paper, textile, and leather. We very much welcome the inclusion of microorganisms and enzymes as primarily used components for net-zero technologies under the Net-Zero Industry Act as these are indeed contributing to reduction of CO2 and have the potential to contribute to both Europes competitiveness and net-zero goals. In the Net-Zero Industry Act, biotech climate and energy solutions are defined as microorganisms or biological molecules, including enzymes, which are able to reduce CO2 emissions by replacing energy-intensive fossil or chemical based inputs on industrial manufacturing processes relevant for, inter alia, carbon capture, production of biofuels and production of bio-based materials. As outlined in the Commissions Communication on Boosting Biotechnology and Biomanufacturing form March 2024, biotechnology products, like enzymes and microorganisms, has many other uses as enablers of EUs competitiveness and green transition outside of the energy sector. In addition, biosolutions contribute to strengthening the EUs food security, sustainable agriculture, bioeconomy, and water resilience. Aside from microorganisms and enzymes, there are technologies in the value-chain that are essential to produce final biotech climate and energy solutions as net-zero products, most notably, modern biotechnology and fermentation techniques. While the EU is already an industry leader in fermentation capacity, as it has 47% of the global capacity for fermentation (https://gfi.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Fermentation-manufacturing-capacity-analysis.pdf - page:14), it will be important to continue expanding this capacity to further boost European competitiveness and accelerate EUs green transition. SMEs in particular have more challenges in accessing such capacity, so it will be important to ensure that these components are commercially available for all actors in the biosolutions eco-system to ensure that the EU maintains its the global leadership in fermentation technologies.
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Response to Delegated act on primarily used components under the Net-Zero Industry Act

20 Feb 2025

Novonesis is a global leader in industrial biotechnology and biosolutions, committed to advancing innovation, competitiveness, and sustainability across sectors such as food, animal feed, cleaning, and industrial manufacturing such as energy-intensive industries like pulp & paper, textile, and leather. We very much welcome the inclusion of microorganisms and enzymes as final products as well as main specific components under the Net-Zero Industry Act because microorganisms and enzymes are indeed contributing to the reduction of CO2, and they have the potential to contribute to EUs competitiveness and net-zero goals. In the Net-Zero Industry Act, biotech climate and energy solutions are defined as microorganisms or biological molecules, including enzymes, which are able to reduce CO2 emissions by replacing energy-intensive fossil or chemical based inputs on industrial manufacturing processes relevant for, inter alia, carbon capture, production of biofuels and production of bio-based materials. As outlined in the Commissions Communication on Boosting Biotechnology and Biomanufacturing(1) from March 2024, biotechnology products, like enzymes and microorganisms, have many other uses as enablers of EUs competitiveness and green transition outside of the energy sector. Biosolutions also contribute to strengthening the EUs food security, sustainable agriculture, bioeconomy, and water resilience. Microorganisms and enzymes are used in end products such as laundry detergents, animal feed and food processing, where they, amongst other things, reduce CO2 emissions. In terms of industrial manufacturing processes, microorganisms and enzymes are replacing and reducing energy-intensive fossil or chemical-based inputs. Please see blow examples: - Penicillium bilaiae can, when being applied at seeds, reduce the use of conventional fossil-based fertilizers(2). - Various enzymes such as cellulase, xylanase and lipase are used as processing aids in the pulp and paper sector, where they reduce CO2(3). These enzymes replace fossil-based chemicals and catalyze reactions at mild conditions e.g. lower temperature than conventional processes and fewer process steps. We therefore encourage the Commission to consider including a broader list of final products as enablers under biotech and climate solutions. The current text of the draft act which reads microorganisms / enzymes that are used to pretreat and convert feedstock into biofuels, bio-based chemicals, bio-based materials and bio-based products, potentially limits some uses of enzymes that could have important contributions to the EUs wider climate and sustainability goals outside of energy. We list some examples below of other uses that may be relevant. Table non-exhaustive list of microorganisms and enzymes as enabling components (see the table in the attached document).
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Meeting with Stine Bosse (Member of the European Parliament)

19 Feb 2025 · European life sciences and biotech policy

Meeting with Asger Christensen (Member of the European Parliament)

17 Feb 2025 · Agriculture and biosolutions

Meeting with Rasmus Nordqvist (Member of the European Parliament)

17 Feb 2025 · Vision for agriculture and food systems

Meeting with Alvydas Stancikas (Head of Unit Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs) and Confederation of Danish Industry and International Biocontrol Manufacturers' Association

4 Feb 2025 · Collect stakeholders input for the SMET project on authorisation of biosolutions

Meeting with Alexander Bernhuber (Member of the European Parliament)

30 Jan 2025 · EU Biotechnologie Strategie

Meeting with Elsi Katainen (Member of the European Parliament)

30 Jan 2025 · Bioeconomy strategy

Meeting with Dan Jørgensen (Commissioner) and

23 Jan 2025 · Charting the future of European green competitiveness.

Meeting with Didier Millerot (Head of Unit Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union) and International Flavors & Fragrances and Association of Manufacturers and Formulators of Enzyme Products

9 Jan 2025 · Sustainable Finance framework, taxonomy

Meeting with Gijs Schilthuis (Director Agriculture and Rural Development)

7 Jan 2025 · Exchange of views on biotechnology and biosolutions supporting the agriculture and food sectors

Meeting with Niels Flemming Hansen (Member of the European Parliament)

31 Oct 2024 · Biotech

Meeting with Kira Marie Peter-Hansen (Member of the European Parliament) and Ørsted A/S and

25 Oct 2024 · Speaker at network meeting with Danish companies on EU competitiveness

Meeting with Rasmus Nordqvist (Member of the European Parliament)

16 Oct 2024 · Møde ml Rasmus Nordqvist og repræsentanter fra Novonesis

Meeting with Asger Christensen (Member of the European Parliament)

4 Sept 2024 · Agricultural policy and biotech

Meeting with Morten Løkkegaard (Member of the European Parliament)

3 Sept 2024 · Bio solutions act

Meeting with Kira Marie Peter-Hansen (Member of the European Parliament)

2 Jul 2024 · Biosolutions

Meeting with Maroš Šefčovič (Executive Vice-President) and

15 Apr 2024 · Meeting WEF CEO Action Group for the European Green Deal

Meeting with Maroš Šefčovič (Executive Vice-President)

21 Feb 2024 · European Green Deal, biotech and biosolutions

Meeting with Asger Christensen (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur for opinion)

10 Jan 2024 · Agriculture

Meeting with Pascal Canfin (Member of the European Parliament) and SMEunited aisbl and Association of European Automotive and Industrial Battery Manufacturers

8 Nov 2023 · Green Deal

Meeting with Francesca Peppucci (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur)

7 Nov 2023 · COM(2023)217 - Proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on detergents and surfactants, amending Regulation (EU) 2019/1020 and repealing Regulation (EC) No 648/2004

Meeting with Martin Hojsík (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur)

7 Nov 2023 · Detergents regulation, enzymes

Meeting with Erik Poulsen (Member of the European Parliament)

2 Nov 2023 · Detergent

Meeting with Juozas Olekas (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur for opinion)

11 Oct 2023 · New genomic techniques in plant breeding

Meeting with Maria Arena (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur)

11 Oct 2023 · Detergents

Meeting with Ditte Juul-Joergensen (Director-General Energy) and Ørsted A/S and

6 Oct 2023 · Energy Transition

Meeting with Norbert Lins (Member of the European Parliament, Committee chair)

4 Oct 2023 · NGTs

Novozymes urges EU to regulate genetically modified microorganisms

2 Oct 2023
Topic — A new legal framework for plants and products obtained by targeted mutagenesis.
Message — Novozymes calls for a parallel policy initiative on genetically modified microorganisms to foster innovation. They advocate for a product-oriented regulatory approach rather than one based on specific techniques.12
Why — A modern framework would allow their microbial solutions to reach their full commercial potential.345
Impact — The organic sector loses access to sustainable plant varieties due to proposed prohibitions.6
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Meeting with Maria Arena (Member of the European Parliament)

7 Sept 2023 · REACH

Meeting with Niels Fuglsang (Member of the European Parliament)

7 Sept 2023 · Net-zero Industry Act

Meeting with Niels Fuglsang (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur for opinion) and Carlsberg Breweries A/S

19 Jun 2023 · EU's grønne omstilling

Meeting with Niels Fuglsang (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur for opinion)

7 Jun 2023 · (APA) Net Zero Industry Act

Meeting with Nils Torvalds (Member of the European Parliament)

25 May 2023 · ecodesign for sustainable products regulation

Meeting with Margrete Auken (Member of the European Parliament)

10 May 2023 · Various environmental legislation

Meeting with Erik Poulsen (Member of the European Parliament)

10 May 2023 · ESPR

Novozymes urges EU to include enzymes in green packaging taxonomy

3 May 2023
Topic — This consultation establishes criteria for environmentally sustainable investments under the EU Taxonomy Regulation.
Message — Novozymes strongly encourages the Commission to re-evaluate the exclusion of substances based solely on hazard classification. The draft neglects science-based benefits of enzymes in the sustainable plastics value chain.12
Why — Inclusion would ensure their enzyme products are officially recognized as sustainable investment activities.3
Impact — Regulators lose a consistent hazard-based approach for excluding respiratory sensitisers from sustainable products.4
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Meeting with Jan Huitema (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur)

24 Mar 2023 · Sustainable use of plant protection products

Meeting with Martin Hojsík (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur)

24 Mar 2023 · CLP, ESPR, enzymes, pesticides, classification of chemicals

Meeting with Norbert Lins (Member of the European Parliament, Committee chair)

13 Jan 2023 · Pflanzenschutz (SUR)

Meeting with Christel Schaldemose (Member of the European Parliament)

10 Jan 2023 · Ecodesign

Meeting with Margrete Auken (Member of the European Parliament)

7 Oct 2022 · Enzymes in EU environmental policy

Meeting with Sarah Wiener (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur)

6 Oct 2022 · staff only: SUR, definition and authorisation of biopesticides

Meeting with Elena Montani (Cabinet of Commissioner Virginijus Sinkevičius)

15 Sept 2022 · The implementation of the Chemicals Strategy

Meeting with Kerstin Jorna (Director-General Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs)

21 Jun 2022 · The main focus of the discussion will be the challenges that the biotech sector is facing, and the role of innovation in the sector. They would also like to discuss chemicals and the role of bio-based industries.

Meeting with Asger Christensen (Member of the European Parliament)

10 Feb 2021 · Bio-solutions