MEPs Corner

“I do realise that households have 40% share on energy consumptions. The same share belongs to the transport sector. In this area it is more complicated to achieve the energy consumption reduction than in the productions sphere eg. the chemistry expended in the last 20 years essentially and produced the energy consumption by 60%. I can confirm that Czech Republic is going in this direction. Better use of energy contributed to relative social stability of our country and export performance (the export have some 85% share on Czech GDP). On the other hand Europe wide impact of energy efficiency guideline was limited, especially in the southern part of Europe. I am convinced that only in cooperation with the municipalities and regions we can achieve better impact.“

Miloslav Ransdorf
Vice-Chair of Committee on Industry, Research and Energy of the European Parliament