EU Policies and Regulation on CO2, Renewables and Energy Efficiency: A Critical Assessment of Recent Experiences - Green Energy and Efficiency: An Economic Perspective - page 54

Table A.1 Characteristics of frameworks of obligations on energy suppliers/distributors in Europe
Flanders region Italy France Denmark United Kingdom

Titoli d ' Ef c-
ienza
Energetica

Certi cats d 'É cono-
mie de l 'É nergie

Name of
scheme or
programme

Rationeel Energieverbruik
(Rational Use of Energy —
RUE Law, in English)

Energiselskabernes
spareindsats

Green deal ECO

Year scheme
started

2013 (end of
2012)

2003 2005 2006 2006 2013

Current
period

Annual targets. For
2010 - 2011 savings of 3.5 %
(over 2,500 customers). No
targets were set in 2012, as it
was decided to implement
compulsory measures

2013 - 2016 Pending launch;

expected in
2013 - 2016

2010 - 2020 2012(end) - 2020 2013 - 2015

(March)

Current
target

- Baseline year

T-2 0 a

600 TWh cumac
(estimated; pending
launch of new
period)

10.3 PJ in 2010 and
subsequent
adjustments

Savings amounting to 4.5 million
tonnes of CO 2

Obligated
parties

Only electricity distributors
(16 companies in total)

Gas and elec-
tricity distrib-
utors ( nal
consumption
obligations)

Suppliers of gas,
electricity, air-con-
ditioning (cold and
heat), heating oil
and fuel distributors
for the car sector

Distributors of elec-
tricity, natural gas,
piped gas and oil
traders (the latter
entered the scheme
voluntarily)

Gas and electricity suppliers

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