D7.5 – Policy recommendations

The work in this task used the linear policy analysis model1 2 and value chain analysis and worked together with stakeholders to understand current policy landscapes, policy relevant challenges and gaps and formulate a set of future concepts for policy interventions that can overcome challenges and facilitate the delivery of sustainable biomass (from industrial crops) to biobased sectors.
The deliverable is grouped in six sections:
a) the description of the methodological approaches followed during the study
b) an overview of the policy related areas that impact on industrial crops, marginal (or with unfavourable conditions) land, conversion and end use markets and perform gap analysis at EU and MS level (with validation at least to the participating ones and the others based on the European databases)
c) the rationale for future policy interventions
d) a set of future policy intervention concepts tailored to meet the challenges that occur within the individual value chain stages of industrial crop cultivation in marginal land and their conversion to biobased products
e) A policy likelihood assessment through a set of key performance indicators that are relevant to the Common Agricultural Policy and the Sustainable Development Goals, and
f) A separate Annex with policy briefs for each EU Member State and the UK. A quick scan during the policy review at national level, in the countries with Good Practice cases (see Deliverables 7.1 to 7.3) did not identify and special policy for the use of marginal land for industrial crops and their integration in the respective Smart Specialization Strategies. The individual funding source used in the Good Practice cases is described in Deliverable 7.1.