to call for climate protection policy measures to be in line with the market. At the same time, the Commission must speak out against regulatory measures, especially in its technology policy (“ecodesign”) [...] which energy policy should be developed”: “The time has come for energy policy to become truly European” (p. 4). Policy Background With its Article 195 TFEU, the Lisbon Treaty gives the EU the legislative [...] main energy policy challenges are securing energy supply, ensuring EU competitiveness and combating climate change. In 2007, the European Council adopted the “20-20-20-targets“: By 2020, the EU will reduce
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Jeck | Phone +49 (0)761 38693-238 | jeck@cep.eu CEP | Kaiser-Joseph-Straße 266 | 79098 Freiburg | Germany | Phone +49 (0)761 38693-0 | www.cep.eu 1 EU Communication THE FUTURE OF TRANSPORT Status: [...] Low emission and zero-emission vehicles are to contribute to climate protection and reduce oil dependency. - The Commission advocates EU-standardised technical norms, which enable every competitor to [...] with comprehensive “comfortable transport solutions“. – Global targets: EU transport policy is to be oriented towards global EU interests, in particular - the integration of neighbouring countries such
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savings is the most immediate and cost-effective way of addressing the EU's strategic energy and climate policy objectives of fighting climate change, ensuring security of energy supply and establishing competitive [...] be taken at EU, national and local level. EU Heads of States and of Governments endorsed, at the Spring 2007 Council, the EEAP and the 20% EU objective16. After years of growth, the EU primary energy [...] objective is to stimulate recovery from the downturn affecting the EU economy while enhancing the achievement of the EU's energy and climate policy objectives. The EEPR was endowed with a €3,980 million financial
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energy policy objectives of the EU. These objectives include [C(2013) 7243, p. 2] - a secure energy supply at "competitive" prices, - climate change targets by 2020 (see cepAnalysis EU-Energy Policy, p. [...] Götz Reichert, LL.M. | bonn@cep.eu cep | Kaiser-Joseph-Strasse 266 | 79098 Freiburg | Germany | Telephone +49 (0)761 38693-105 | www.cep.eu 1 EU Guidance Document and EU Communication DEMAND-SIDE [...] compliance with the requirements of EU data protection law (Directive 95/46/EC; cf. also Commission proposal COM(2012) 11 for a Basic Regulation on Data Protection, see cepPolicyBrief). These state, in particular
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Growth in the EU will need to come primarily from exports, structural reforms and innovation. This will require close coordination of EU trade and domestic policy instruments. EU trade policy instruments [...] and the protection of these innovations in an international trade context, is within the remit of trade policy. As part of the EU2020 policy platform, the "Innovation Union" flagship policy is the main [...] In summary, this SWP demonstrates the potential contribution that EU trade policy can make to the achievement of the EU2020 policy objectives of smart, sustainable and inclusive growth and job creation
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of the Copenhagen climate conference in December 2009 confirm that the contribution of energy policy to tackling climate change remains crucial. The "Copenhagen Accord" anchors the EU's objective to limit [...] Towards the EU’s partners in the Western Balkans, signatories of the Energy Community Treaty, the EU should focus on the strict application of calendars to implement EU energy rules. The EU should enhance [...] energy and climate objectives pursued by the EU: it ensures energy to be supplied most efficiently and eliminates undue monopoly profits. Only this way, the carbon price emerging from EU policies like
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| bonn@cep.eu cep | Kaiser-Joseph-Strasse 266 | 79098 Freiburg | Germany | Telephone +49 (0)761 38693-105 | www.cep.eu 1 EU Communication ELECTRICITY INTERCONNECTION TARGET cepPolicyBrief No. 2015-11 [...] – The four power corridors are [see also Annex I TEN-E Regulation (EU) No. 347/2013, see cepCompass EU Climate and Energy Policy, p. 104] - Northern Seas Offshore Grid (NSOG), - North-South Inter [...] regulators and the Commission [p. 12; see also Annex I TEN-E Regulation (EU) No. 347/2013, see cepCompass EU Climate and Energy Policy, p. 104]; - propose the PCIs which are finally established by the
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Commission’s Directorate-General for Regional and Urban Policy (DG REGIO), How EU Cohesion Policy is helping to tackle the challenges of climate change and energy security, September 2014 40 DG REGIO [...] Energy Efficiency and its contribution to energy security and the 2030 Framework for climate and energy policy 22 EU patent office, Building the future: Four innovation trends that are shaping green [...] 2030 Framework for climate and energy policy 24 Preparatory study under the Ecodesign Directive, VHK, draft results 25 Waide et al., The scope for energy and CO2 savings in the EU through the use of
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| vanroosebeke@cep.eu cep | Kaiser-Joseph-Strasse 266 | 79098 Freiburg | Germany | Telephone +49 (0)761 38693-107 | www.cep.eu 1 EU Communication SUSTAINABLE FINANCE cepPolicyBrief No. 32/2018 [...] delegated acts relating to the Markets Directive [2014/65/EU, see cepPolicyBrief] and to the Insurance Mediation Directive [(EU) 2016/97, cepPolicyBrief] which mean that, in future, advisers will have to [...] Commission, the current level of investment in the EU is not sufficient to “support an environmentally sustainable economic system”. In order to achieve EU climate and energy targets by 2030, additional annual
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Resilient Energy Union with a Forward-Looking Climate Change Policy. 21 De Vries, L. (2007): Generation Adequacy: Helping the Market do its Job, Utilities Policy 15, S. 21. 22 Treaty on the Functioning [...] (March 2015) 05/2015: Extend the EU ETS! (March 2015) Authors: Dr. Moritz Bonn is Policy Analyst in the Department for Energy | Environment | Climate | Transport. Dr. Götz Reichert [...] European-policy think tank of the non-profit-making foundation Stiftung Ordnungspolitik. It is an independent centre of excellence for the examination, analysis and evaluation of EU policy. 1 In
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