EFIB Brussels Statement – a competitive future for the EU

Name: EFIB Brussels Statement – a competitive future for the EU
Start: 2025-06-12T13:30:00+02:00
End: 2025-06-12T14:30:00+02:00

12 June @ 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm Online

The EFIB Brussels statement was published following the successful workshop that EuropaBio organised together with Genopole during the Bioket conference on 11 March. It looks ahead to the decisions that the EU must now take through the policies and initiatives currently in process. A key opportunity exists for societal and industrial transformation within the sustainability and safety ambitions that make Europe a global figurehead.

The agenda of the EFIB webinar 2025 is as follows:

Presentation of the EFIB statement by our Director General, Claire Skentelbery.
Panel discussion with our wonderful participants.
Confirmed Speakers
- Maarit Nyman – Senior Expert on Industrial Bioeconomy, European Commission
- Ana Maria Bravo – Director of Government Affairs, IFF
- Saskia Kliphuis-Schotsman – Public Affairs Manager, Corbion
- Monica Christensen – Senior Public Affairs Manager, Novonesis

This will be followed by a short Q&A session.

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Insulin

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