Translation of "Association suisse pour l'économie de l'énergie;SAEE " (French → English) :

24. Stresses that improved energy efficiency and energy savings will play an essential role in the transformation of the energy system, and that meeting the 2020 objectives is a prerequisite for making further progress up to 2050; recommends, in this respect, that the Member States step up their efforts to fully implement the recently adopted Energy Efficiency Directive, and recommends that awareness-raising campaigns and energy efficiency be integrated into national educational curricula in the Member States; recommends that the Member States and the C ...[+++]ommission do more to include national ideas and involve national development banks and to support exchanges of best practice; recalls that energy efficiency, if properly implemented, is a cost-effective way for the EU to achieve its long-term goals as regards energy savings, climate change, and economic and energy security; recognises that shifting to a more energy-efficient economy can accelerate the spread of innovative technological solutions, decrease fossil fuel imports and improve the competitiveness and growth of industry in the Union; believes that the move towards a better energy-efficiency policy should focus on the whole energy supply and demand chain, including transformation, transmission, distribution and supply, alongside industrial, building and household consumption; stresses that the EU’s long-term energy-efficiency policy should take the reduction of energy use in buildings as a central element, given that existing building renovation represents enormous energy saving potential; stresses that the current rate and quality of building renovation needs to be substantially scaled up in order to allow the EU to significantly reduce the energy consumption of the existing building stock by 80 %, relative to 2010 levels, by 2050; calls, in this regard, on the Member States to adopt ambitious, long-term building renovation strategies as required by the Energy Efficiency Directive;

7. In the light of the review of cohesion policy and the EU financial perspective, asks the Commission to ensure that energy saving is automatically included, when applicable, as a condition when granting structural and cohesion funds, and to earmark an increased proportion of funds for energy efficiency projects (such as increasing the energy efficiency of buildings, of electricity generation or of transmission), and for decentralised renewable energy and cogeneration projects; points out that this must not be discriminatory towards projects that would not in any case be related or linked to energy efficiency issues and must not increa ...[+++]se the level of red tape for the beneficiaries of structural and cohesion funds;

Studies by European consumers' associations have identified that there is a bias in the advertising of new cars towards high performance, low fuel economy, high CO2 emission vehicles, which represent the most profitable sector within the industry, with little emphasis given to the promotion of fuel economy or emissions performance aspects of new vehicles.

18. Considers that energy savings and energy supply contracts should be able to include the supply of a package in which different sources of energy are combined according to efficiency and cost-saving criteria;

‘third-party financing’: a contractual arrangement involving a third party — in addition to the energy supplier and the beneficiary of the energy efficiency improvement measure — that provides the capital for that measure and charges the beneficiary a fee equivalent to a part of the energy savings achieved as a result of the energy efficiency improvement measure.

[46] "The contribution of mineral wool and other thermal insulation materials to energy savings and climate protection in Europe", ECOFYS report for the European Insulation Manufacturers Association, 2003.