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EU Bioeconomy Monitoring System

The EU Bioeconomy Monitoring System offers a comprehensive overview of European trends in indicators related to the EU Bioeconomy.

Bioeconomy
  • Through its Bioeconomy Strategy, the EU is committed to ensuring that the bioeconomy’s economic and social benefits go hand in hand with environmental benefits.
  • To help achieve its objectives, the European Commission has developed a Bioeconomy Monitoring System (BMS) as an action under the 2018 EU Bioeconomy Strategy.
  • This system provides comprehensive, robust and reliable information to monitor all areas of the bioeconomy.
  • Its interactive dashboard allows to track the bioeconomy’s progress towards sustainability in the EU and its Member States.
  • Active engagement of experts from EU Member States, academia and international organisations ensures that the BMS remains a functional and up-to-date tool. Over the coming months, the system will be developed further to also reflect the novel aspects of the new EU Bioeconomy Strategy, launched in November 2025.
  • The BMS is in continuous improvement: new features and enhancements will be introduced regularly.

 

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EU Bioeconomy Monitoring System dashboards

The EU Bioeconomy Monitoring System offers a comprehensive overview of European trends in indicators related to the EU Bioeconomy. The set of indicators is organised according to a conceptual framework that allows for full coverage of the EU Bioeconomy: value chain steps, sustainability pillars, primary production sectors. The indicators may be browsed according to the EU Bioeconomy Strategy Objectives, the SDGs or the European Green Deal priorities. A selection of key indicators related to the EU Bioeconomy is presented as ‘Headline indicators’.

For national Bioeconomy strategies: See the Bioeconomy country dashboard

How to cite: Knowledge Centre for Bioeconomy: https://knowledge4policy.ec.europa.eu/bioeconomy/monitoring_en

Description of framework:

Giuntoli, J., Robert, N., Ronzon, T., Sanchez Lopez, J., Follador, M., Girardi, I., Barredo Cano, J., Borzacchiello, M., Sala, S.,M’Barek, R.,La Notte, A., Becker, W. and Mubareka, S., Building a monitoring system for the EU bioeconomy, EUR 30064 EN, Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg, 2020, ISBN 978-92-76-15385-6, doi:10.2760/717782, JRC119056.
 
Kilsedar, C., Girardi, I., Gerlach, H. and Mubareka, S., Implementation of the EU Bioeconomy Monitoring System dashboards, Knowledge Centre for Bioeconomy, Ispra, 2021, ISBN 978-92-76-46204-0 (online), doi:10.2760/691217 (online), JRC127762.
Kilsedar, C., Wertz, S., Robert, N. and Mubareka, S., Implementation of the EU Bioeconomy Monitoring System dashboards, Knowledge Centre for Bioeconomy, Ispra, 2021, ISBN 978-92-76-28946-3, doi:10.2760/577115, JRC123675.
 
Kilsedar, C., Patani, S., Olsson, M., Girardi, J. and Mubareka, S., EU Bioeconomy Monitoring System dashboards: extended with trade-related indicators, Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg, 2023, ISBN 978-92-76-61625-2, doi:10.2760/217911, JRC132356.
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For national Bioeconomy strategies: See the Bioeconomy country dashboard

How to cite: Knowledge Centre for Bioeconomy: https://knowledge4policy.ec.europa.eu/bioeconomy/monitoring_en

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