Bioeconomy roadmap: legal framework (first bulletin) D3.3.

This paper serves for Brilian partners, for external stakeholders including policy makers, to understand the rapidly evolving policy and legislative scenarios developing in theEuropean Union and its institutions which relate to policies that may impact the rural bioeconomy. This Deliverable is included in WP3 Task 3.3 and contributes to other Tasks and activities such as helping to inform the discussion with the Advisory Board for Farmers, Task 2.4 Social Innovation, the assessment of market conditions in Task 2.3 and Business Models in Task 4.1, the Assessment of trade-offs and synergies in Task 3.2, the Policy and Standards Proposals in Task 3.3, The Regulatory Market Readinessassessment in Task 6.3 as well as communication and dissemination activities in WP7.The Policy Bulletin is the first of five that will be produced during the four years of the project. This edition has been drafted following the Policy Workshop organised byBRILIAN in Brussels on March 13th, 2024, in which issues related to the rural bioeconomy were discussed with external experts. These included representatives the European Commission DG GROW, JRC, CBE JU, European Bioplastics, FEAD, ZWE, MWE, BASF. Further it builds upon analysis published in May 2024 of the policy landscape in the EU highlighting areas of challenges and opportunities for the bioeconomy.