1 Amendments of Maria do Céu PATRÃO NEVES related to 2012/2295(INI)
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Maintains that the bioeconomy will do much to enhance resource efficiency and reduce dependence on imported raw materials and energy and non-renewable natural resources; points to the importance of the forest sector and other bio-based industry and maintains that carbon-neutral renewable natural resources and raw materials, such as wood and wood fibre, can replace non-renewable fossil raw materials; points out that bioeconomy industry produces many high added value products, for example chemicals, medicines, plastics, and other innovative new materials, and that it creates jobs;