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What Do We Want To Achieve ?

The document discusses the European Union's energy and climate change policies. It aims to establish a competitive energy market, increase renewable energy sources, reduce dependence on fuel imports, and lower energy consumption. The EU adopted targets for 2020 to cut greenhouse gases by 20% (or 30% with an international agreement), reduce energy use by 20% through efficiency, and meet 20% of energy needs with renewables. The EU plans to invest in low-carbon technologies to achieve these goals and put European industry at the forefront of green technologies.

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What Do We Want To Achieve ?

The document discusses the European Union's energy and climate change policies. It aims to establish a competitive energy market, increase renewable energy sources, reduce dependence on fuel imports, and lower energy consumption. The EU adopted targets for 2020 to cut greenhouse gases by 20% (or 30% with an international agreement), reduce energy use by 20% through efficiency, and meet 20% of energy needs with renewables. The EU plans to invest in low-carbon technologies to achieve these goals and put European industry at the forefront of green technologies.

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Europe's citizens and companies need a secure supply of energy at affordable prices in order maintaining our standards of living.

At the same time, the negative effects of energy use, particularly fossil fuels, on the environment must be reduced. That is why EU policy focuses on creating a competitive internal energy market offering quality service at low prices, on developing renewable energy sources, on reducing dependence on imported fuels, and on doing more with a lower consumption of energy. Energy is what makes Europe tick. It is essential, then, for the European Union (EU) to address the major energy challenges facing us today, i.e. climate change, our increasing dependence on imports, the strain on energy resources and access for all users to affordable, secure energy. The EU is putting in place an ambitious energy policy covering the full range of energy sources from fossil fuels (oil, gas and coal) to nuclear energy and renewables (solar, wind, biomass, geothermal, hydro-electric and tidal) in a bid to spark a new industrial revolution that will deliver a low-energy economy, whilst making the energy we do consume more secure, competitive and sustainable In order to reach the EUs energy and climate change policy objectives, the Union needs to develop cost-effective low-carbon technologies, lower the cost of clean energy and put EU industry at the forefront of the rapidly growing green technology sector. This comprehensive plan proposed by the Commission aims to establish a new energy research agenda for Europe, which is to be accompanied by better use of and increases in resources, both financial and human, to accelerate the development and deployment of low-carbon technologies of the future.

Tackling climate change is one of the biggest challenges we face. Unless global action is taken quickly to stabilise the rising temperature of the earths surface, there is likely to be irreversible and catastrophic damage. The EU adopted an integrated energy and climate change policy in December 2008, including ambitious targets for 2020. It hopes to set Europe on the right track - towards a sustainable future with a low-carbon, energy-efficient economy - by:

cutting greenhouse gases by 20% (30% if international agreement is reached) reducing energy consumption by 20% through increased energy efficiency meeting 20% of our energy needs from renewable sources

In 2001, the Commission issued a White Paper setting an agenda for the European transport policy throughout 2010. Approaching the end of the ten-year period, it is time to look further ahead and define a vision for the future of transport and mobility, preparing the ground for later policy developments. The Commission intends to launch a debate on the main challenges and opportunities for the transport sector in the long term (20 to 40 years). The aim is to produce a Communication on the Future on Transport, to be adopted by the Commission in June 2009.

What do we want to achieve ?


Transport infrastructure is fundamental for the mobility of the persons and goods and for the territorial cohesion of the European Union. The EU 27 dispose of 5.000.000 km of paved roads, out of which 61.600 km are motorways, 215.400 km of rail lines, out of which 107.400 km electrified, and 41.000 km of navigable inland waterways. Most of these transport infrastructures have been developed under national policy premises. In order establish a single, multimodal network that integrates land, sea and air transport networks throughout the Community, the European policymakers decided to establish the Trans-European transport network, allowing goods and people to circulate quickly and easily between Member States and assuring international connexions. Establishing an efficient trans-European transport network (TEN-T) is a key element in the relaunched Lisbon strategy for competitiveness and employment in Europe. If Europe is to fulfil its economic and social potential, it is essential to build the missing links and remove the bottlenecks in our transport infrastructure, as well as to ensure the sustainability of our transport networks into the future. Furthermore, it integrates environmental protection requirements with a view to promoting sustainable development. In view of the growth in traffic between Member States, expected to double by 2020, the investment required to complete and modernise a true trans-European network in the enlarged EU amounts to some 500 billion from 2007 to 2020, out of which 270 billion for the priority axis and projects. Given the scale of the investment

required, it is necessary to prioritise projects, in close collaboration with national governments, and to ensure effective European coordination. The European Community is supporting the TEN-T implementation by several Community financial instruments and by loans from the European Investment Bank. Grants, in particular under the TEN-T budget line and the Cohesion and European Development Funds, play a major role in both project preparation and implementation phases. Grants are allocated to studies (from feasibility studies to comprehensive technical or environmental studies and costly geological explorations), helping to overcome early stage project difficulties, and to the works phase. A key issue for the future in relation to the implementation of the TEN-T policy is to rationalise the allocation of grants and to link it to the projects' European added value so as to ensure the best value for Community money. In this context, the Trans-European Transport Network Executive Agency (TEN-T EA) was created in 2006 to implement and manage the TEN-T programme on behalf of the European Commission.

Focus on...

Summaries of legislation

The Trans-European Transport Networks (TEN-TEA)

Motorways of the Sea

Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS)


Action Plan for the Deployment of Intelligent Transport Systems in road transport

NAIADES Action Programme (2006-2013)


Policy to promote inland waterway transport in Europe and implement by the Trans-European project PLATINA

ERTMS

European Rail Traffic Management System

Daily news

Press room

Trans-European transport networks: towards a new policy for meeting future challenges Green Paper: TEN-T policy review. Towards a better integrated trans-European transport network at the service of the common transport policy Antonio Tajani, Vice-prsident de l'Union Europenne, Discours du Vice-prsident Antonio Tajani a l'occasion du sommet de Chefs d'tat et de Gouvernement de l'Union Africaine , Sommet de Chef d'tat et de Gouvernement de l'Union Africaine, Addis Ababa, 2 fvrier 2009 Commercial road transport: an important step towards harmonised rules on enforcement Commission proposes to open negotiations on a Common aviation area with Georgia More 04/02/2009 - Public consultation: Green Paper on Future TEN-T Networks (deadline 30/04/2009) 03/02/2009 - Register of interest representatives: the European Commission wishes to let citizens know which interests are influencing the decision-making process 02/02/2009 - PPPs in rail infrastructure projects; Experts from the Commission and the rail sector met on 30 January 2009 16/01/2009 - Study "Effects of adapting the rules on weights and dimensions of heavy commercial vehicles as established within Directive 96/53/EC" 15/12/2008 - The Transport website has been redesigned; previous bookmarks are redirect to the new Home page 26/11/2008 - TEN-T implementation reports for 2006-2007 period More

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