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AND THE COMMITTEE OF THE REGIONS on the implementation of

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. Introduction 4

2. Reactions to the White Paper 5

3. Current situation as regards the Community objectives. 5

3.1. The share of RES in the Community. 6

3.1.1. Biomass 7

3.1.2. Wind energy. 9

3.1.3. Photovoltaic solar energy (solar electricity) 10

3.1.4. Solar thermal (solar heating). 10

3.1.5. Hydro. 10

3.1.6. Geothermal. 11

3.2. Renewable energy in Member States 11

3.3. Co-operation between the Commission and Member States 12

4. RegulatoryMeasures 12

4.1. Electricity from renewable energy sources 12

4.2. Fiscal and Finance measures. 13

4.3. New Bio-energy initiative for Transport, Heat and Electricity. 14

4.4. Improving building regulations. 15

4.5. Standardisation. 16

5. Integration into other Community Policies 17

5.1. Environment. 17

5.2. Growth, Competitiveness and Employment 18

5.3. Competition and State Aid 19

5.4. Research, Technological Development and Demonstration. 20

5.5. Regional Policy 20

5.6. Common Agricultural Policy and Rural Development 21

5.7. External Relations 22

6. Support measures . 23

6.1. The ALTENER Programme . 23

6.2. The AGORES database 24

6.3. Other support measures 24

7. The Campaign for Take-Off . 24

7.1. Challenging objectives for 2003 . 24

7.2. The Renewable Energy Partnership 26

8. Conclusions and recommendations for the future 28

TABLE 1 . 30 Energy production from RES in EU-15 30

TABLE 2 . 31 Energy production from RES in EU-15, by sector 31

GRAPH 3 32 Differences in electricity generation in TWh, 1997/1998 32

GRAPH 4 33 Wind energy projections 33

TABLE 5 . 34 Wind energy installed capacity in MW. 34

TABLE 6 . 35 Impact of the objectives of theWhite Paper on net job creation. 35

ANNEX I. 36 ACTION PLAN FOR RES 1998-2010. 36

ANNEX II . 39 Current policies and targets in Member States and Norway 39

ANNEX III 42 List of abbreviations. 42