Electricity Market'. Article 3 of the Renewables Directive required that Member States set national targets for consumption of energy from renewable sources in terms of a proportion of total electricity consumption, and that they publish and implement a report for the subsequent 10 years and review the target every five years.


7.


The Renewables Directive set an indicative target for the EU of 12% renewable electricity consumption by 2010 and an indicative target for the UK for the consumption of total electricity by renewable sources of 10% by 2010. In the UK this requirement was satisfied by the 2007 Energy White Paper, which is discussed in section 3.3.1.1 below.


8.


In April 2009 Directive 2001/77/EC was replaced with Directive 2009/28/EC which is also known as the Renewables Directive or the Renewable Energy Directive. The two key targets this document proposed to achieve were:


  9.


A reduction of 20% in greenhouse gases by 2020, explicitly acknowledged within Appendix 1 to the Copenhagen Accord; and


20% of the total EU energy consumption to come from renewable sources by 2020.


The new Directive was introduced to implement the European Union's “20 20 by 2020 policy”. The UK commitments under these directives are discussed below in section 3.3.2.


3.2.3 Managing and Improving the Environment


3.2.3.1 Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) 10.


The MSFD (European Council Directive 2008/56/EC) aims to establish a framework within which Member States will take measures to maintain or achieve ‘good environmental status’ (GES) in the marine environment by 2020.


11.


Each Member State is committed to producing a Marine Strategy for their waters, in collaboration with other Member States sharing the same marine region. Key requirements include:


 


An assessment of the current state of UK seas by July 2012 (still in progress);


A detailed description of what Good Environmental Status (GES) means for UK waters, and associated targets and indicators by October 2012 (still in progress);


Preliminary Environmental Information May 2014


East Anglia THREE Offshore Windfarm


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