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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the Community’s energy policy is based on the third pillar: security of supply, competitiveness and environmental sustainability. Energy efficiency is a way to promote the achievement of these three main objectives of the Community’s energy policy. This we are aiming to bring about by, for example, improving security of supply by reducing our dependence on outside sources. In the same way, it is important to boost competitiveness in the European Union, so that new energy efficiency technologies can be developed, the position of industry in the Union in the field of energy-efficient products and services reinforced, and energy costs for companies and the authorities cut. To achieve these goals we also need to promote environmental sustainability, to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and the other adverse effects on the environment which result from the use of some forms of energy.
Energy efficiency and energy saving may be regarded as both the cornerstone of the Community’s energy policy and a priority goal, which the Council has been committed to for a long time now. This commitment is clearly reflected in the legislative measures and other measures which have recently been adopted or which are to be adopted in the Council’s conclusions on energy efficiency and energy saving and in the conclusions by the Presidency adopted at the March and June 2006 European Council meetings.
Regarding research and development, the Council would like to refer the honourable Member to the proposals for the Seventh Framework Programme, about which there have been intensive discussions between the European Parliament and the Council. Energy efficiency is one of the objectives in the field of energy that we intend to promote. Special attention is to be paid to coordination of the views on the reasonable and efficient use of energy in the framework programme and in other Community policies and programmes.
As you will certainly know, the Council for its own part has already approved the results of the tripartite negotiations held on 26 October, meaning that efforts to reach agreement on the Seventh Framework Programme will be made at second reading. I believe that the Council and Parliament will continue to cooperate successfully and that it will be possible to adopt the Seventh Framework Programme by the end of this year.
You will also certainly be aware of the Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme for the period 2007-2013, which was recently adopted and will be published in the Official Journal of the European Communities in the very near future. The budget for the ‘Intelligent Energy – Europe’ programme under the Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme is bigger than before, so it will help to make it easier to implement concrete action in the field of energy efficiency.
Among the legislative measures and other measures which have recently been adopted or which are to be adopted soon, it is worth mentioning in particular the European Parliament and Council Directive of 2005 for the setting of ecodesign requirements for energy-using products and the European Parliament and Council Directive of 2006 on energy end-use efficiency and energy services. These two ambitious legal instruments, combined with the measures contained in the Action Plan on energy efficiency adopted by the Commission, will promote the realisation of the potential energy saving figure of 20% proposed by the Commission by the year 2020.
At its meeting of 23 November, the Council will hold a general discussion on the Commission document ‘Action Plan for Energy Efficiency: Realising the potential’ and adopt its conclusions on it. These conclusions will help serve as the basis for the Council’s instructions to the Commission, the Member States and other stakeholders for implementing the measures contained in the Commission’s Action Plan. Implementation of many of the measures proposed in the Commission’s Action Plan is one of the Council’s priority areas over the next few years."@en1
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