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The Council is aware of the growing importance of the European Union’s overall energy dependence and would remind the honourable Member of the Council conclusions of May 2000.
In this context, the Council attaches the greatest priority to pushing this work forward in the following areas: the promotion of renewable energy sources, energy efficiency, the security of energy supplies and the diversification of energy sources.
The competent bodies of the Council are currently working on a proposal to promote electricity from this renewable energy sources with a view to an agreement being reached at the next Council meeting in December, provided the European Parliament has given its opinion in due time.
As to energy efficiency, the Commission presented an action plan during last May’s Council meeting. Based on this plan, next December the Council should be adopting conclusions containing a list of priority actions making it possible for the Commission to assess the areas where Member States would like to see Community measures or, alternatively, would prefer to confine themselves to coordinated action.
Furthermore, in the communication adopted on 4 October 2000 on the European Union’s oil supply, the Commission indicated that, at the European Council of Göteborg, it was planning to present a plan to save energy and to promote the diversification of energy sources, which should help to boost energy efficiency, especially in buildings and transport.
As regards the security of energy supplies, the Commission is planning to present a Green Paper, in November 2000, on the future and place of the different energy sources in the context of improving the security of the energy supply of the European Union. This communication will tackle both nuclear energy and renewable energies. Once it has been presented, the Council will certainly accord it the greatest priority. What is more, the Presidency has convened a conference on the security of supplies for 24 November 2000 in Paris."@en1
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