The objective is twofold: on the one hand, enabling the European industry (e.g. chemical, health, mining, energy, pulp and paper, fibre-based products and wood, textile, starch, and food processing industries) to develop new products and processes meeting industrial and societal demands using preferably environmentally friendly and sustainable production methods and competitive and enhanced biotechnology-based alternatives to replace established ones; on the other hand, harnessing the potential of biotechnology for detecting, monitoring, preventing and r ...[+++]emoving pollution.

32. Reaffirms its support for guidelines and legislation to be used to safeguard experiments needed for field trials when new products are developed and points to the legal obligations regarding the transparency of those trials and public access to information

‘Fork to farm’ — food (including seafood), health and well being: Consumer, societal, cultural, industrial and health as well as traditional aspects of food and feed, including behavioural and cognitive sciences; nutrition, diet-related diseases and disorders, including childhood and adult obesity and allergies; nutrition in relation to the prevention of diseases (including increased knowledge of the health bringing compounds and properties of food); innovative food and feed processing technologies (including packaging and technologies from non-food fields); improved quality and safety, both chemical and biological, of food, beverages and feed; enhanced food safety assurance methodologies; integrity (and control) of the food chain; p ...[+++]hysical and biological environmental impacts on and of food/feed chains; impact on, and resistance of, food chains to global changes; total food chain concept (including seafood and other food raw materials and components); traceability and its further development; authenticity of food; development of new ingredients and products.

(a) a research and technological development project designed to gain new knowledge either to improve considerably or to develop new products, processes or services or to meet other needs of society and Community policies.

Development of new methods and breeds and plant varieties, study of the genetic maps of plants and animals with a view to exploiting their main assets, in particular resistance to pests and diseases and ability to adapt to soils and adverse climates; development of new products; development of alternative methods for tests on animal species, for example enzyme tests, using micro-organisms or other means; introduction of methods for assessing the risks and dangers of new products as regards environmental impact on public health, including epidemiology related to genetic sus ...[+++]ceptibilities and more extensive research into genetically modified organisms.

- Agriculture: study of the genetic maps of plants and animals with a view to exploiting their main assets, in particular resistance to pests and diseases and ability to adapt to soils and adverse climates; development of new products; development of alternative methods for tests on animal species with micro-organisms or others; introduction of methods for assessing the risks of new products as regards environmental impact on public health, including epidemiology related to genetic susceptibilities and more extensive research into ...[+++]genetically modified organisms.