This report is aimed at providing practical guidelines to policy makers and also commercial actors to make realistic estimates of technical and sustainable biomass potentials at national and regional levels. It presents the guidelines for identifying, quantifying and monitoring biomass resources in EU countries and regions for bioenergy and wider bioeconomy uses and the sustainability risks related to their production and non-food uses. The report will especially focus on providing information on how to assess technical and sustainable potentials in relation to type of information required, potential sources of data, calculation of biomass potentials, biomass conversion ratios, different approaches to assessing biomass potentials and main known competing uses and sustainability risks. It will also guide the reader to the key studies already done to assess biomass potentials and on sustainability risks of producing and harvesting biomass for non-food uses. In the following table a summary overview is provided of the biomass types covered, the recommended approaches to quantify the potential, the main data sources needed and the relevant studies and publications to take into account and the key sustainability issues to take into account for the technical sustainable potential assessment
