o:3783 POSSIBILITIES FOR THE USE OF BIOMASS FROM FORESTRY WITH THE AIM OF ESTABLISHING A CIRCULAR BIOECONOMY IN SERBIA MOGUĆNOSTI KORIŠĆENJA BIOMASE IZ ŠUMARSTVA U CILJU USPOSTAVLJANJA CIRKULARNE BIOEKONOMIJE U SRBIJI en In the last ten years significance of biomass is growing, due to exhaustion of fossil fuel reserves and their negative impact on climate and environment. In the region of Southeastern Europe, biomass is the most significant renewable energy source, due to abundance of forests and agricultural areas. Serbia is one of the countries of Southeastern Europe with significant potentials for using biomass from forests and wood processing industry in the form of wood residues. Despite its potential, the use of wood biomass in Serbia is not efficient. Significant amounts of wood residue produced in the course of tree felling and timber assortment production are left unused in forests. It is necessary to improve the national legislative and regulatory frameworks and support mechanisms for the rational use of biomass, make a precise assessment of its potential and promote the importance of the circular bioeconomy in Serbia in the coming period. The paper presents the results of a complex analysis of the current state of the circular bioeconomy in Europe Union countries, comparing with state in Serbia, the goals and initial results of the CEE2ACT project, and highlights the importance of the formation and long-term functioning of the National Bioeconomy Hub. forestry, biomass, circular bioeconomy, CEE2ACT, HUB, sustainable development 1552099 10.5937/SustFor2388183B 1552101 1821-1046 2024-01-17T08:01:08.129Z 44 yes 46 Ljiljana BRAŠANAC-BOSANAC 0000-0002-3324-674x 46 Nevena ČULE 0000-0002-1846-989X 46 Ilija ĐORĐEVIĆ 0000-0001-9499-3565 46 Goran ČEŠLJAR 0000-0003-0438-1050 46 Tatjana ĆIRKOVIĆ-MITROVIĆ 0000-0003-2620-1751 application/pdf 506678 https://unilib.phaidrabg.rs/o:3783 no yes 16 70 1552253 Sustainable Forestry: Collection 87-88 183 195 Институт за шумарство, Београд, Србија 2023