Communication COM/2025/960 final
The Commission Communication COM(2025) 960 final sets out a Strategic Framework for a competitive and sustainable EU bioeconomy, positioning the bioeconomy as a driver of green growth, competitiveness and resilience that helps decarbonise the economy and replace fossil‑based materials and products while supporting circular production models and strategic autonomy. It defines the bioeconomy broadly as sustainable solutions based on biological resources, including primary and secondary biomass (by‑products and residues) and biogenic carbon captured via innovative technologies.
The Communication highlights the bioeconomy’s current scale (e.g., up to €2.7 trillion value in 2023 and 17.1 million jobs) and identifies investment gaps that hinder scale‑up. The framework is organised around four pillars: (1) scaling innovation and investments, including streamlining regulation via EU Biotech Acts, regulatory sandboxes and a Bioeconomy Regulators and Innovators’ Forum; (2) developing lead markets, including a Bio‑based Europe Alliance with an ambition of €10 billion in collective purchases by 2030; (3) ensuring sustainable biomass supply within planetary boundaries; and (4) harnessing global opportunities. The Communication also articulates a 2040 vision where bio‑based materials and biomanufacturing are widely deployed across EU value chains.
Relevance to bio-waste and/or circular bioeconomy:
The framework is directly relevant to circular bioeconomy and biowaste because it explicitly includes secondary biomass such as by‑products and residues as bioeconomy feedstocks and promotes circular production models. It prioritises investment and market creation for bio‑based solutions and calls for improving circularity and infrastructure, which supports valorisation pathways for municipal biowaste (e.g., composting/anaerobic digestion and bio‑based materials) and demand‑side mechanisms such as lead markets and collective purchasing.
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Full title: Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions. A strategic framework for a competitive and sustainable EU bioeconomy.
Publication date: 2025
Instrument type: Communication
Binding for EU MS: No
Keywords: Bioeconomy Strategy, secondary biomass, organic waste, circular bioeconomy, biomanufacturing, bio-based products, lead markets, sustainable biomass supply, investment deployment, regulatory streamlining