Biotechnologies play an essential role in the delivery of EU goals for competitive, healthy, resilient and sustainable economies and societies. It is a driver of high value fermentation based solutions and innovation. 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 and contributing directly to the EU Bioeconomy Strategy’s objectives for circular, resource-efficient and bio-based value chains. 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 innovative technologies.

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