Ep Seeks Truly Binding Objective

摘要

In most member states, the funding allocated to energy efficiency plans is still insufficient and some sectoral policies still run counter to the goal of a more energy-efficient European Union. The European Parliament expresses its regret about this in an own-initiative report by Andras Gyiirk (EPP-ED, Hungary), adopted, on 19 February, during the plenary session in Brussels. The report argues that the European target of saving 20% energy between now and 2020 by improving energy efficiency should be made legally binding. The national action plans that the member states have been asked to implement to achieve this goal are often submitted extremely late and several show gaps that could threaten the success of the European energy efficiency goals, according to the report. The two other goals for 2020 (reducing greenhouse gas emissions and raising the proportion of renewable energy in the energy mix to 20%) are already set by the climate change legislation adopted in December 2008.