Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2005-03-07-Speech-1-104"

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dcterms:Date	"2005-03-07"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Alternative forms of energy2
dcterms:Language	"el"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20050307.13.1-104"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2005-03-07-Speech-1-1052
lpv:speaker	lp:Dimitrios Papadimoulis2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Synaspismos tis Aristeras ton Kinimaton kai tis Oikologias (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 substitute; Temporary committee on policy challenges and budgetary means of the enlarged Union 2007-2013 (2004-10-14--2005-06-08)3 member; ENVI (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 substitute; EMPL (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 member; Delegation for relations with the People's Republic of China (2004-09-15--2007-03-13)3 member_of_the_bureau; EUL/NGL (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 substitute; DROI (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, given the important advantages of alternative forms of energy to the environment, public health and citizens’ quality of life, the question to which neither the Commission nor the European Parliament has given an effective answer is: how can we promote the further development of alternative forms of energy, so that the citizens can enjoy their advantages? We have before us the recent Commission report, which notes a serious delay in relation to the objectives set in Directive 2001/77. Consequently, we need to do more. I personally believe that this endeavour needs to be supported along three lines of approach. The first line of approach is to create a more beneficial political environment in which to promote alternative forms of energy. Here, the role of governments is decisive, given that the large multinational companies in the energy sector are still investing primarily in oil and it will not be easy for them to abandon this unilateral approach. What is needed, therefore, is a package of government incentives to encourage investments in alternative forms of energy and create profitable markets for alternative forms of energy. The second line of approach is to create a suitable legal framework which supports alternative forms of energy. In other words, we need to protect these markets from the shackles of an energy system built – together with its legal bases – at a time when alternative forms of energy were almost unheard of. The third and most important line of approach, and it is on this that the question focuses which I and my honourable friends have submitted to the European Commission, is to rapidly develop public and private investment in research, in order to develop better and cheaper technologies in connection with alternative forms of energy. Developing alternative forms of energy depends first and foremost on research into the development of new technologies and now is our opportunity, now that the large companies which trade in oil are amassing a fortune in excessive profits made by taking advantage of rises in stock exchange prices, now that, as we have all realised, the framework programme for research and development is inadequate with the resources at its disposal; this is our opportunity to promote the idea of imposing a clean energy tax on the oil industry, which can be used to finance the development of alternative forms of energy. It might, for example, be no more than 1% of companies’ net profits, in order to safeguard their competitiveness. I await the Commission’s response and – more importantly – the next steps with interest."@en1

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