The key research problem dealt with in the article concerns issues pertaining to a place of the bio-based economy in the EU cohesion policy in the years 2014-2020. The fundamental question has been posed as to how objectives of the development strategies at the EU level refer to issues that come under the bio-based economy. The specified problem area allowed an aim of the research to be formulated, namely the presentation of priorities of the EU development and the possibility of their achievement in the scope of the bio-based economy in a new financial perspective 2014-2020. From the point of view of the identified research problem, planning documents were analyzed at Community level. As a result, it was determined that the Europe 2020 Strategy sets the most important priorities for the EU connected with the bio-based economy in the years 2014-2020. This statement became a basis for further research conducted in a dynamic perspective, in which possibilities of achieving indicators of the Europe 2020 Strategy in this area were determined. One applied methods of descriptive statistics in the research, including a tabular description and a description of the dynamics of a phenomenon. Values of the linear trend were also determined by means of the method of least squares. Source materials included planning documents on the development of financial perspective after 2014 which were drawn up at the EU level. As a result of conducted works, one formulated conclusions concerning development of the bio-based economy with a possibility of achieving indicators of the Europe 2020 Strategy.