The Barcoding Facility for Organisms and Tissues of Policy Concern (BopCo) acts as a focal point for identifying biological materials upon request, by providing access to the expertise and infrastructure necessary to identify organisms of policy concern and their derived products. BopCo s identification service is available to all stakeholders who deal with such material and who need accurate species identifications. These can rely on (i) traditional morphology-based approaches employing the taxonomic expertise and specimen collections at the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS) and the Royal Museum for Central Africa (RMCA) and/or (ii) on DNA-based techniques like DNA-barcoding, qPCR, RFLP, eDNA, microsatellites or third generation sequencing technologies for which BopCo has access to fully equipped laboratories at both RBINS and RMCA. A prerequisite to using DNA-based techniques, however, is the availability of comprehensive and reliable reference barcode libraries. Therefore, BopCo also contributes to improving DNA-barcode databases of taxa of policy concern by producing new DNA-barcodes, which are made publicly available, and evaluates existing DNA-barcodes for their utility. Examples displaying the taxonomic diversity, stakeholder range, policy concern issues and utilised techniques will be presented.