AMBER is a new and unique facility at CERN dedicated to study fundamental questions related to the emergence of hadron properties from QCD with high-energy hadron and muon beams. Such an installation would make the experimental hall EHN2 the site for a great variety of measurements to address fundamental issues of strong interactions in the medium and long-term future.

The first approved experimental phase includes the measurement of the antiproton-production cross-section as an essential input for indirect dark-matter searches with cosmic-ray antiprotons, the measurement of the charge radius of the proton with the elastic muon-proton scattering process, and the investigation of hadron structure and the emergence of nuclear mass using Drell-Yan reactions and charmonium production.

For a longer-term program an upgrade of the M2 beam line would allow for further unique opportunity to shed new light on the kaon and pion gluon PDFs and on the strange meson spectroscopy.