Brussels, 27 November 2025 – CEPF regards this Strategy as an important step towards the long-awaited and necessary turn of our Union’s political directions to address the renewable, domestically grown sustainable natural resources from resilient ecosystems, as well as the rural livelihoods and the upscaling of the European economy which builds on all of them.
The bioeconomy is the reality and the opportunity to bring Europe forward in the sustainable transition and shift away from fossil resources to boost the EU’s strategic autonomy. Forestry and European forest owners are among the pillars of self-sufficiency in sustainable biomass sourcing. This notion is rightly highlighted by the Strategy. European forest owners also welcome the recognition of locally adapted sustainable forest management practices and the longstanding Pan-European cooperation around – Forest Europe- in the past three decades.
Stimulating investments, streamlining legislation, removing existing regulatory barriers or avoiding new ones are approaches of paramount importance taken by the Commission. European forest owners underline the need to keep the emphasis on the implementation of current legislation in force and not create new legislation on sustainability requirements or on the use of biomass.
“Regulatory stability and predictability amid these turbulent times are urgently needed for European forest owners, who are an integral part of the value chain and stand ready to play their part to fill the frames of this Strategy.” – says Dániel Komlós, Policy Advisor of CEPF.
Sustainable forest management and the use of forest-based products continue to play an important role in climate change mitigation, which should be supported through an integrated approach in this new Strategy as well, by considering the substitution effect of forest-based products. This substitution effect should be well reflected in the EU climate change policy architecture beyond 2030: where bioeconomy and climate action mutually reinforce each other.
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Dajana Kojic
CEPF Office Manager
