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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2014-560/article-2",
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  "legislation": "eur/2014/560",
  "legislation_title": "Council Regulation (EU) No 560/2014 of 6 May 2014 establishing the Bio-based Industries Joint Undertaking (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2014-560",
  "path": "article/2",
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  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Objectives",
  "text": "The BBI Joint Undertaking shall have the following objectives:\n(a) to contribute to the implementation of Regulation (EU) No 1291/2013 and in particular Part III of Decision 2013/743/EU;\n(b) to contribute to the objectives of the BBI Initiative of a more resource efficient and sustainable low-carbon economy and increasing economic growth and employment, in particularly in rural areas, by developing sustainable and competitive bio-based industries in Europe based on advanced biorefineries that source their biomass sustainably, and in particular to:\n(i) demonstrate technologies that enable new chemical building blocks, new materials, and new consumer products from European biomass which replace the need for fossil- based inputs;\n(ii) develop business models that integrate economic actors along the whole value chain from supply of biomass to biorefinery plants to consumers of bio-based materials, chemicals and fuels, including by means of creating new cross-sector interconnections and supporting cross-industry clusters; and\n(iii) set up flagship biorefinery plants that deploy the technologies and business models for bio-based materials, chemicals and fuels and demonstrate cost and performance improvements to levels that are competitive with fossil-based alternatives.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2014/560/article/2",
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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