The European Committee of the Regions (CoR) is drafting an opinion on A sustainable Bioeconomy for Europe: Strengthening the connection between economy, society and the environment (COM(2018) 673 final). The opinion will react to and bring forward ideas from the local and regional point of view to the European Commission's Communication published on 11 October 2018. The rapporteur of the opinion, Mr Jácinth Horváth (HU/PES), Member of Nagykanizsa Municipal Council, together with his expert, Mr Ákos Koós, would be happy to meet with representatives of your organisation and other important stakeholders for a consultation and an exchange of views on the relevant topics of this opinion to gather the different points of views and discuss the main issues.    The rapporteur would be very keen to hear your views during the meeting. After a short introduction by the rapporteur, stakeholders will be invited to exchange views with the rapporteur. You can find the Working document here. In addition, if you have any position papers relevant to the subject, you are welcome to send them to us by e-mail to the functional e-mail address: sedec@cor.europa.eu The meeting will be held in English and Hungarian. For more information, please refer to our website: https://cor.europa.eu/en/events/Pages/SEDEC-sc-sustainable-bioeconomy.aspx For practical reasons, you are kindly asked to register your participation before COB on Tuesday, 26 February 2019. Please note that in order to reduce paper waste, the CoR will not provide paper copies of documents for the meeting.