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Governing Board

Members of the CBE JU Governing Board

  • Chair: James MORRISON, Director for Healthy Planet, DG RTD
  • Vice-Chair: Rob BEEKERS, Director of New Business Development at Cargill Bio-Industrial Group

 

European Commission members:

European Commission members are appointed by Commission Decision C(2026)1869 of 24.3.2026 amending Decision C(2021)8911, appointing the Commission representatives to the Governing Board of the Circular Bio-based Europe Joint Undertaking

 

Bio-based Industries Consortium (BIC) members:

Duties

Governing Board is the main decision-making body of CBE JU. It supervises the implementation of the CBE JU’s objectives, adopts its Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda, as well as its yearly work programme and budget, and approves the annual activity report of CBE JU, among other tasks.

The Governing Board is composed of five representatives from the European Commission and five from BIC.

Find more information on the functioning and tasks of the CBE JU’s Governing Board in articles 15-17 of the Council regulation (EU) 2021/2085 of 19 November 2021.

Meetings of the CBE JU Governing Board