2/17/2017 Microbes Are a Ubiquitous and Fundamental Part of Our - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

2/17/2017 1 Levers and Barriers to introducing biostimulants: A view from the market

LWES, 31 Jan 2017

Microbes have been part of our diets and our food supply for millennia

• Wine, cheese, beer, yogurt,

kimchi, sauerkraut, grains, fruits and vegetables all have natural microbial populations

Microbes Are a Ubiquitous and Fundamental Part of Our Health and Environment

Source: Liz Szabo, Maureen Linke, and Kevin Kepple, USA TODAY

With around microbe speciesper person, our skin is covered with bacteria.

THE SKIN THE GUT A healthy human microbiome is essential for a healthy life

• The microbiome is the group of microbes

that live on and with us

The Human Body Is Colonized by a Vast Number of Microbes

500

More than

1 billion

per square centimeter. There areabout

1000

microbe species ina person’s overallgut. People carry morethan

3 pounds

• f microbes in their

digestive tract alone. They help manufacture vitamins such as K and B that humans can’t make on theirown.

5

2/17/2017 2 $2

billon sales

48%

marketshare in industrial enzymes

700+

products

140

countries

~6,500

employees

different industries

30+

100kg CO2 saved

for every 1kg of product applied

~7,000

granted patents and pendingpatent

~14%

• f revenue

invested in R&D

NOVOZYMESATA GLANCE

2

• Agriculture employs 1 billion

people globally, this is one

• ut of every three workers on

the planet.

• Agriculture is the basis of

advanced industries. Main driver for economic growth.

• We want to decouple

agricultural productivity from environmental impact (grow more with less). Potential to transform agriculture towards more sustainability.

UN Sustainability Goals

2/17/2017 3

Jumpstart and EU fertilizers regulation

TODAY With Fertilizers Regulation? Jumpstart registration requirements



In each EU MS* (up to 28)



Once for all 28 EU MS Jumpstart regulatory compliance, rules for market access



Unclear in many EU MS



Same rules for all 28 EU MS Jumpstart IP protection



Differs from EU MS to MS



Same rules for all 28 EU MS

* EU MS = EU Member State

• 1. Product approval: Allow Farmer to Access Innovative Products Faster

The proposed positive list considers only 4 biostimulant microorganisms, but hundreds or even thousands are already on the market or under development. The process for adding new microorganisms slows down innovation significantly and discourages investments in identifying and selecting new microorganisms. If the updating of the list is based on publicly available data, then it will never contain the most innovative products because of the time lag between discoveries and publication of peer-reviewed scientific literature.

• 2. Parallel Status: Taking into account the specificity of nature’s work tools

Focusing on label claims and functions of specific products. Many components have different uses that are often the function of the application methods, formulations, or use rates.

• 3. IPR and data confidentiality: Better protection for state-of-the-art innovation

Once microorganisms are included in the positive list, they could be used by anyone. That creates unfair conditions for competition where a company that invests in R&D is forced to share it with companies that have not made the same investment, without fair compensation. This provides a disincentive to innovate. Companies need a pathway to demonstrate that a newly identified and selected microorganism (or consortium) is safe and effective, without undermining existing protections for trade secrets and data confidentiality.

Novozymes position on EU Fertilizers Regulation: Three priorities

9