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The first EU BON Stakeholder Roundtable was held on 18 June 2013 at the Leibniz Association in Brussels, under the motto "Biodiversity and Requirements for Policy". Important topics regarding biodiversity information were discussed with political stakeholders and a variety of valuable recommendations were given for the future process of EU BON in order to improve biodiversity knowledge availability and usability. Among the participants were members of the European policy, representatives of recent European biodiversity projects and EU BON members. At the roundtable, intensive discussions took place regarding what biodiversity policy needs, for example which indicators and measurements are needed to answer policy questions that are related to biodiversity and ecosystems. Suggestions were made to formalize Essential Biodiversity Variables (EBV’s) and Aichi targets. A future approach was set towards producing a guideline and timeline for the work on EBVs  that should be established within EU BON. The challenges of future research policy were also discussed and the collaboration of EU BON with the Group on Earth Observations (GEO) will be a substantial part of the continuous contributions to the global process. EU BON should also serve as a showcase for the European Commission in this respect. EU BON also aims to answer crucial questions regarding data policy, e.g. how to establish a general repository for a long-lasting storage of data and how to handle ‘big data’. Another future task will be to integrate EU relevant projects and initiatives and their data portals, datasets and metadata. At the roundtable it was also discussed how public stakeholders can be involved in the future, particularly citizen scientists, so that they could be integrated in EU BON and provide useful information for scientists and researchers. The general outcomes were collected and compiled in this report and provide useful recommendations for science-policy interfaces in Europe in general. 

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