Environmental Technologies and Eco-innovation in the Czech ...

Technology Action Plan and of supplementary measures. The Commission will try to
integrate support for environmental products, services and processes into its industrial
and environmental policy. In addition, the functioning of voluntary tools in industry
(EMAS and environmental labelling), the great potential of which has not yet been fully
utilized.”
The aforementioned facts suggest that the 6 th EAP attributes great relevance to
environmental technologies and eco-innovations and that it creates a sufficient
framework for their future development and practical implementation.
1.1.2 | Environmental protection policy in the Czech Republic
The main national political document is State Environmental Policy of the Czech
Republic 2004–2010 approved by Government Resolution No. 235 of 17 March 2004.
In the environmental area, the SEP naturally reflects the 6 th EAP as well as all other
relevant strategic and political documents of the EU, and it is in accordance with
them.
The SEP concentrates on four priority areas: Protection of the environment,
landscape and biological diversity; sustainable usage of natural resources, material
flows and waste management; the environment and quality of life; protection of
the Earth’s climate system and the reduction of long distance transmissions of air
pollution. For each of the priority areas, priority goals, partial goals and measures
through which they can be reached are determined.
With regards to environmental technologies and eco-innovations, the most
important priority goals of the SEP are goal 2.3: Utilization of renewable resources,
2.4: Reduction of the Energy and Material Intensity of Production and Increased
Material and Energy Use of Wastes, 3.5: Reduction of Anthropogenic/Industrial
Impacts and Risks 4.1: Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions.
The SEP explicitly mentions integrated pollution prevention and control and the
application of best available techniques as important tools towards achieving these
priority goals.
In the SEP section about sector policies, support for environmental technologies
is primarily mentioned in the Energy production (support for the introduction of
modern high efficiency energy technologies and external costs as low as possible)
and Industry (to create a programme of support for the general application of
low-emission, low-waste and energy-saving technologies with adequate costs and
closed production cycles) chapters.
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