Positions
Positions
advocacy and bioeconomy
29 Jan 2026
BioChem Europe position paper on Public Procurement
Public procurement represents approximately 14% of the EU’s GDP and is therefore a powerful lever for driving sustainable production and consumption patterns. As the EU advances its objectives under...
advocacy, bioeconomy, and Climate Change
14 Jan 2026
BioChem Europe position paper on the Advanced Materials Act
Advanced materials provide innovative solutions for a more efficient, sustainable, and competitive industry, playing a key role in achieving the EU objectives of strengthening competitiveness and achi...
advocacy, biobased, and bioeconomy
16 Dec 2025
The role of biobased content targets to drive market demand of biomass-derived chemicals and materials
The bioeconomy sector is pivotal for the European chemical industry as it supports the transition to a sustainable and circular economy while offering sustainable and high-performance products. In the...
advocacy, biobased, bioeconomy, and Climate Change
05 Dec 2025
BioChem Europe input to EU Taxonomy – Review of Climate and Environmental Delegated Acts
BioChem Europe wishes to express its concerns on the provisions of the EU Taxonomy Delegated Acts and its implications for the European bioeconomy at large and for the biomass-derived chemical sector...
advocacy and bioeconomy
27 Nov 2025
The Bioeconomy Strategy: a framework to industrialise the EU bioeconomy
BioChem Europe, the Cefic sector group representing biomass-derived chemicals, welcomes the European Commission’s renewed ambition for a competitive and sustainable bioeconomy, as outlined in the Bi...
advocacy, biobased, bioeconomy, and biomass
27 Oct 2025
EU Biotech Act: boosting the biomass-derived chemicals sector
Biotechnology and biomanufacturing are cornerstone sectors for the European Union’s economic growth, sustainability, and global competitiveness. These technologies drive innovation across healthcare...
advocacy, biobased, and bioeconomy
27 Oct 2025
Circular Economy Act: biomass-derived chemicals and materials enable a Circular Economy
Europe’s transition towards climate neutrality and a sustainable circular economy requires a rapid and ambitious scale-up of the biomass-derived sector, supported by robust and consistent policy sta...
advocacy, biobased, and bioeconomy
09 Oct 2025
The EU Bioeconomy Strategy must be industrial to succeed: op-ed
With the right policy action and investment, bio-based solutions can deliver sustainability, resilience, and competitiveness for Europe’s chemical industry and the entire value chain.
We need a s...
advocacy and bioeconomy
09 Jul 2025
BioChem Europe’s position the Industrial Decarbonisation Accelerator Act
In the European Union’s goal for climate neutrality by 2050, the chemical and materials industries play a key role by reducing reliance on fossil-based feedstocks and transitioning to sustainable, l...
advocacy, biobased, and biomass
04 Jul 2025
BioChem Europe’s position on EU Innovation Fund & European Investment Bank position on bio-based chemicals and materials
The biomass-derived sector plays a pivotal role in the EU's transition to a sustainable and circular economy. However, stakeholders have raised concerns that the EU Innovation Fund (EUIF) and European...
advocacy, biobased, and bioeconomy
24 Jun 2025
Bioeconomy Strategy Review – June 2025
The bioeconomy sector is key to achieve EU’s Competitiveness, strategic autonomy and resilience, while addressing climate challenges. The EU Commission’s 2025 Work Programme, recognises that a str...
advocacy, biobased, bioeconomy, and biomass
24 Feb 2025
BioChem Europe position on Market Pull Measures
Market pull measures are a key enabler of the cascading use principle. By making it economically viable to invest in technologies and processes that achieve the efficiency of biomass use “according...
biobased, bioeconomy, and biomass
24 Feb 2025
BioChem Europe position on Sustainability Criteria
Bioeconomy plays a pivotal role in achieving the strategic autonomy and resilience of the EU whilst tackling climate challenges, as confirmed in the Letta Report on the EU Single Market and the Report...
biobased, bioeconomy, and biomass
29 Apr 2024
BioChem Europe: Supporting a strong cascading use principle for biomass
Biomass-derived chemicals are defined as chemical products that are wholly or partly derived from materials of biological origin – e.g. biomass. While biomass is often associated with renewabili...
biobased, bioeconomy, and biomass
29 Apr 2024
BioChem Europe : Paving the way for a thriving Bioeconomy in Europe
BioChem Europe applauds the Commission goal to shape a strong European Bioeconomy agenda and will keep providing insightful contribution to its implementation.
Commission Comm...
Carbon footprint, CO2, and LCA
22 Apr 2024
Towards an accurate accounting for carbon from biomass in the Product Environmental Footprint (PEF)
We need a fairer method to account for the footprint of biogenic carbon and allocate it to the actors along the bioeconomy value chains.
Biogenic carbon in the current P...
advocacy and bioeconomy
28 Mar 2024
Boosting Biotechnology and Biomanufacturing in the EU
STATEMENT
Brussels, 28 March 2024 - The European Commission published its Communication on biotechnology and biomanufacturing, setting a milestone and highlighting the potential of the sector in pa...
advocacy and bioeconomy
25 Oct 2022
Bio-base equivalence” contributes to a more circular and sustainable packaging
In the range of options to improve the sustainability and circularity of packaging materials and of Europe’s economy, biomass-derived content must be seen as a viable complementary alternative to in...
Climate Change and CO2
21 Apr 2022
Biomass-derived chemistry’s multiple contributions to restoring sustainable carbon cycles
The recent release of the Communication on Sustainable Carbon Cycles is a chance for biomass-derived chemistry to stress its multi-facetted contribution to the EU climate ambition....
Climate Change and CO2
08 Apr 2022
The LULUCF regulation is key for a blossoming European bioeconomy
A balanced land-use, land-use change and forestry policy would contribute at the same time to climate change mitigation and to growing the circular bioeconomy.
The land-use se...
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