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- The bio-based economy for Europe: state of play and future potential
| Title |
| Public consultation on the "bio-based economy for Europe: state of play and future potential" |
| Policy field(s) |
| Research and Technology - The Europe 2020 Strategy and in particular the Innovation Union and Resource Efficient Europe flagship initiatives. |
| Target group(s) |
| Public consultation is intended to provide opportunities for inputs from those directly or indirectly linked to the bio-based economy sectors, including representatives of public authorities, businesses and associations, academics and technical experts, civil society organisations and individual citizens. |
| Period of consultation |
| From 22.02.2011 to 02.05.2011 |
| Objective of the consultation |
| This public consultation is intended to provide opportunities for input on the state of play of the bio-economy in Europe, its potential and the need for new action at the EU and Member State levels. |
| How to submit your contribution |
We welcome contributions from citizens, organisations and public authorities.
In order to submit your contribution, you will be requested to register by introducing some information allowing us to know who you are and how to contact you. Moreover, this will allow you to access any time your own contribution in order to modify/suppress it. It is important for us to be able if need be to contact the contributors to continue the dialog or ask for complementary information. Since the launch in June 2008 of the Register for Interest Representatives (lobbyists) as part of the European Transparency Initiative, organisations are invited to use this Register to provide the European Commission and the public at large with information about their objectives, funding and structures. It is Commission policy that submissions from organisations will be considered as individual contributions unless the organisations have registered. |
| View the introductory paper |
You are advised to read the introductory paper ( 15 KB) before completing your contribution. |
| View the questionnaire |
| The maximum time to complete the questionnaire allowed by the system is 90 minutes. Partial responses will not be saved. This means once you start filling in the questionnaire, you have to answer all compulsory questions to submit your response. You can, however, preview/print a PDF version of the online questionnaire ( 104 KB) to help you to prepare your response. |
| Reference documents and other, related consultations |
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| Contact details |
| Directorate-General for Research & Innovation |
| E-mail: RTD-BIO-ECONOMY@ec.europa.eu |
| Postal address: European Commission, Directorate-General for Research & Innovation, Office SDME 08/48, Brussels 1049, Belgium |
| View the contributions |
The Commission has committed itself to publishing all contributions to its consultations. To make a clear distinction between contributions from organisations listed in the Register and those from all other organisations (as required by the Commission's communication of 21 March 2007) the contributions should be published at least in the following categories:
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| Results of consultation and next steps |
From the results of the Public consultation on the Bio-based Economy for Europe, two publications have been made. The Report ( |