We urge the European Commission to ensure that the revised strategy actively supports a truly circular, regenerative, and ecologically sound bioeconomy. This includes ensuring ambitious alignment with European and global objectives on packaging, ecodesign for sustainable products, and nature restoration. In particular, this new strategy must recognise the risks of unchecked expansion of bio-based material production, addressing the full lifecycle impacts of bio-based plastics and paper, and prioritising resource sufficiency, ecological resilience, and social equity over simplistic assumptions of renewability or carbon neutrality.