Part TWO, Title I, Article 47 · Council Regulation (EU) 2021/2085

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Article 47Additional tasks of the Circular Bio-Based Europe Joint Undertaking#

In addition to the tasks set out in Article 5, the Circular Bio-based Europe Joint Undertaking shall carry out the following tasks:

(a)ensure that its objectives are reached through the programming of research and innovation activities of the public and private partners;

(b)mobilise public and private funding for its research and innovation activities;

(c)support high impact multidisciplinary research and innovation projects that enhance the industrial bio-based innovation to deliver on its objectives;

(d)intensify its research and innovation activities along the whole innovation chain from low to high TRLs;

(e)mobilise and integrate research and innovation actors including feedstock providers from rural, coastal, urban areas and regions with unexploited potential for bio-based value chain development to cooperate in project activities;

(f)ensure that research and innovation activities under it focus on issues of public interest, specifically on the environmental and climate performance of the bio-based industry, both in terms of understanding the relevant problems and developing solutions to them;

(g)promote communication and collaboration between research and innovation actors and industrial stakeholders under it to raise awareness about rapidly evolving knowledge and technology, facilitate cross-disciplinary and cross-sectorial collaboration and facilitate market uptake of innovative bio-based solutions;

(h)mobilise national and regional authorities that are able to create more favourable conditions for market uptake of bio-based innovations;

(i)support the reflection towards the development of standards in order to facilitate the market uptake of bio-based innovations;

(j)set scientifically robust sustainability criteria and performance benchmarks, apply and monitor them in all its research and innovation activities, and promote them beyond the initiative to the bio-based industry;

(k)communicate and promote innovative bio-based solutions towards policy makers, industry, NGOs, civil society and consumers at large.