Traduction de «Programme Énergie en mer » (Français → Anglais) :

Developments in fishing intensity, coastal development, navigational practices or offshore energy infrastructure, as well as an increasing concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, are having an accelerating impact on the two thirds of this planet that are sea or ocean.

The growing importance of sea-based activities such as maritime transport, offshore energy, tourism, coastal development, fisheries and aquaculture offers huge opportunities for economic development but it also poses a major threat to the marine environment.

Such financial instruments at Union level include, inter alia, Regulation (EC) No 1080/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 July 2006 on the European Regional Development Fund , amended to allow increased investments in energy efficiency in housing; the public-private partnership on a ‘European energy-efficient buildings’ initiative to promote green technologies and the development of energy-efficient systems and materials in new and renovated buildings; the EC-European Investment Bank (EIB) initiative ‘EU sustainable energy financing initiative’ which aims to enable, inter alia, investments for energy efficiency and the EIB-led ‘Marguerite Fund’: the 2020 European Fund for Energy, Climate Change and Infrastructure; Co ...[+++]uncil Directive 2009/47/EC of 5 May 2009 amending Directive 2006/112/EC as regards reduced rates of value added tax , structural and cohesion funds instrument Jeremie (Joint European Resources for micro to medium enterprises); the Energy Efficiency Finance Facility; the Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme including the Intelligent Energy Europe II Programme focused specifically on removing market barriers related to energy efficiency and energy from renewable sources through for example the technical assistance facility ELENA (European Local Energy Assistance); the Covenant of Mayors; the Entrepreneurship and Innovation programme; the ICT Policy Support Programme 2010, and the Seventh Research Framework Programme.

Hence, in the future, the EU should explore synergies between the European Energy Policy and the IMP, promoting energy generation from the sea, including renewable forms of energy, and use the sea more for energy transportation through pipelines, underwater grids and vessels.

Transport, shipping, trade, coastal and port-based industries, off-shore, traditional and alternative energies, fisheries, aquaculture, marine research, tourism,– countless areas of human activity often affect one another and can have an impact on our oceans and the quality of the life they help sustain.

Accordingly, the Commission has decided to promote research programmes in this field (viz. the demonstration projects for renewable forms of energy, the biomass subprogramme of the non- nuclear energy research and development programme, the energy and agriculture programme, and the Eclair multiannual programme for research aand technological development).