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The challenges and opportunities of creating an EU circular bioeconomy A European Parliament stakeholder event

The challenges and opportunities of creating an EU circular bioeconomy

• Welcome : Sjerp VAN DER VAART, Head of the Information Office of

the European Parliament

• Moderation : Christian PATERMANN, former director DG RTD

Biotechnology

The challenges and opportunities of creating an EU circular bioeconomy

• Keynote speech : John BELL, Director of Bioeconomy,

DG RTD, European Commission

The challenges and opportunities of creating an EU circular bioeconomy

Panel - Environmental opportunities and challenges in developing a post- petroleum economy

• Miapetra KUMPULA-NATRI, MEP S&D (ITRE committee)
• Cathy PLASMAN, Secretary General Bio.be / Essenscia
• Joan Marc SIMON, Director, Zero Waste Europe
• Pekka PESONEN, Secretary General COPA/COGECA

The challenges and opportunities of creating an EU circular bioeconomy

Panel - Market creation and investment opportunities

• Lambert

VAN NISTELROOIJ, MEP EPP (REGI committee)

• Dirk

CARREZ, Executive Director Bio-based Industries Consortium (BIC)

• Monika

SORMANN, Economy, Science and Innovation Vlaanderen

The challenges and opportunities of creating an EU circular bioeconomy

Panel - Policy coherence

• Nils TORVALDS, MEP ALDE (ENVI committee)
• Nathalie MOLL, Secretary General EuropaBio
• Harmen

WILLEMSE, NEN, Netherlands Standardization Institute

• Philippe MENGAL, Executive Director Bio-based

Joint Undertaking

Nils Torvalds, MEP

The challenges and opportunities of creating an EU circular bioeconomy

Signing

• f

the BIC Vanguard Memorandum

• f

Understanding

• Gianni FAVA, regional Minister for Agriculture for

Lombardy Region

• Ron VAN DER HELM, deputy Secretary General

Province of Zuid-Holland

• Dirk CARREZ, BIC

The challenges and opportunities of creating an EU circular bioeconomy

Closing remarks

• Markku MARKKULA, President of the Committee
• f the Regions

The challenges and opportunities of creating an EU circular bioeconomy

#bioeconomy #circulareconomy #EP_Belgium

Thank you.

results of this event will be posted on www.europarl.be (a link will be sent to all participants) for more information : rafael.deroo@europarl.europa.eu