Biotechnologies play an essential role for the delivery of EU goals for competitive, healthy, resilient and sustainable economies and societies. Biotech is a driver of high value and disruptive innovation and circularity, for example by using alternative feedstocks such as CO2 in addition to secondary materials. It is also unique as it enables the production of biologically active and structurally complex molecules that conventional chemistry cannot generally manufacture or produce efficiently. This makes biotechnology applications indispensable in health, agri-food, chemicals, manufacturing of consumer goods and more throughout our industrial and social ecosystems. It is a hallmark of success, demonstrating EU growth and benefit through innovation. The EU must therefore urgently prioritise their scale-up and access to EU and global markets, as this will be vital for the EU to stay in the global race of clean and disruptive technologies.

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