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"Madam President, all the questions asked and comments made expressed deep concern over the future of a programme which made a great contribution to energy efficiency and renewable energy across Europe. Therefore I can assure you that the commitment remains and should be reinforced – also in financial terms – in the future.
This was the real proposal for the future: to defend the budget as a real constant and really nominally frozen major spending blocks – cohesion and agricultural policy. This is the essence of a programme called Horizon 2020 adopted on 30 November with details to be known at a later stage. Perhaps we should go into a detailed discussion on the basis of these implementing details.
There is, of course, also the place for the Executive Agency for Competitiveness and Innovation. Here again, the external evaluation clearly indicates that this is a useful body. Therefore, the role of this agency in all these related activities should be reinforced. We have an external evaluation (so this is not just our feeling) of both the Intelligent Energy Europe II programme and the Agency for Competitiveness and Innovation, so both would be better placed, in financial terms, in the 2014-2020 programme. Here is my budgetary story. So I can say that this is not just a slogan but a clear indication that in real (also in financial) terms, we fully share the assessment of Parliament as to the value added of these programmes.
As many arguments concerning the use and contribution and value added of the Intelligent Energy Europe II programme had already been presented, I do not need to repeat them. But what I have to say is that this not just a subjective feeling. It is also reinforced and fully confirmed by the external evaluation of the programme. I can state with satisfaction that this is both relevant and useful, as it replies to the evolving needs, problems and periods relating to sustainable energy.
The programme was, as you know, supporting more than 500 projects, 50% of which went to small and medium-size enterprises, and this was a clear preoccupation of Mr Paksas.
Two success stories should be in the textbooks highlighting the utility of that kind of common European programme: Solar Keymark and the ELENA facility. These are two clear success stories.
But the major questions were not about the past and present but about the future. My answer is that we have to handle several targets: energy efficiency and renewable energy sources is one of them – a very serious one. However, at the same time we have to respond to the question of energy security and solidarity. This is the question that was so tangible in 2009, when there were cuts in the gas supply via Ukraine – tangible in the kitchens of some Member States.
So we also have to respond to these concerns. This is why we have to share out money in order to reinforce energy efficiency: renewable, yes, but also transborder networks that are really contributing to energy security and solidarity on the continent, which is so dependent on deliveries from third countries which from time to time clearly display their monopoly power.
As to the future, as I was informed – you well know that this is not quite my dossier, but I was studying it before coming to the House – my preoccupation is to achieve better coherence between research, innovation and market update. This is why the Commission placed the programme-related activities as a dedicated energy component of a new framework programme. This is the philosophy of mainstreaming actions, and we have been asked by many sources to mainstream our actions in this respect. This is called Horizon 2020.
I agree – and this is really what I have started as somebody responsible for the budget – that the clearly small amount of money (and I agree, this was a small amount of money: EUR 743 million) via leverage was giving a clear impact. Therefore, this is about clear impact with little money.
I can assure you that energy efficiency and energy-renewable sources activities should be reinforced with more resources within the non-growing budget. Implementation and details are coming in 2012. I know, already in advance, that it should be reinforced, and this is one of the very few chapters or parts of the 2014-2020 budget proposal to grow. The others are either nominally frozen or generally defended as a real constant."@en1
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