Report from the Commission to the European Parliament and the Council. Progress report on the application of Directive 2006/32/EC on energy end-use efficiency and energy services and on the application of Directive 2004/8/EC on the promotion of cogeneration based on a useful heat demand in the internal energy market

Directive 2006/32/EC on energy end-use efficiency and energy services (the Energy Services Directive or the ESD) aims at making the end use of energy more economic and efficient by establishing indicative targets, incentives and the institutional, financial and legal frameworks needed to eliminate market barriers and imperfections which prevent efficient end use of energy. It also aims at creating the conditions for the development and promotion of a market for energy services and for the delivery of energy-saving programmes and other measures aimed at improving end-use energy efficiency.

The Energy Services Directive applies to the distribution and retail sale of energy, the delivery of measures to improve end-use energy efficiency, with the exception of activities included in the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) and, to a certain extent, the armed forces. It targets the retail sale, supply and distribution of extensive grid-based energy carriers, such as electricity and natural gas as well as other types of energy such as district heating, heating oil, coal and lignite, forestry and agricultural energy products and transport fuels.

In accordance with Article 14(2) of the ESD, the Member States were required to prepare a second Energy Efficiency Action Plan (EEAP) and to notify it to the Commission no later than 30 June 2011. On the basis of the EEAPs, Article 14(5) of the ESD required the Commission to assess the extent to which Member States had made progress towards achieving their national indicative energy saving targets.

This Report, therefore, concludes the Commission's assessment and reporting on the second EEAPs. It comes later than foreseen as not all Member States had submitted their EEAPs in accordance with the deadline set out in the ESD. The Report is accompanied by a Staff Working Document which gives details of the application of both the Energy Services Directive and the Cogeneration Directive by the Member States, and evaluates progress in energy efficiency in energy supply and in end-use consumption. A detailed analysis of each Member States' EEAP is also given.

EUR-Lex: COM(2013)938: Follow the progress of this report through the decision-making procedure http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/HIS/?uri=COM:2013:938:FIN

EUR-Lex: SWD(2013)541: Progress report on energy efficiency in the European Union http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=SWD:2013:541:FIN

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