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

● to analyze the existing experience and to adopt measures leading to a more extensive
usage of energy contracting in the Czech Republic as a part of the State Programme
of Support for Energy Savings and the Usage of Renewable Energy Sources,
● to propose indicators to evaluate the level of support for environmental
technologies,
● in connection with the implementation of the directive on taxation of energy
commodities, to propose a system of energy benchmarking for energy-intensive
products and technologies,
● to issue methodology instructions on the use of managerial accounting to support
the objectives of the sustainable development strategy,
● to evaluate the experience with fulfilling Article 6 of Directive 2001/77/EC of the
European Parliament and Council,
● to strengthen environmental criteria in Structural Funds in the outline for
2007–2012,
● to analyze the possibility of establishing environmental funds and to propose their
content in the conditions of the Czech Republic.
Despite its relative vagueness, the programme succeeds in describing the
situation in the area of support of environmental technologies in the Czech Republic
until 2005, and it serves as a framework for follow-up activities.
The Ministry of the Environment was asked to evaluate the material progress of the
Programme once a year in cooperation with the relevant ministries and to submit it
to the government once every two years. At the end of 2008, the government of the
Czech Republic received its first evaluation material, “The Continuous Evaluation of
the Programme of Support of Environmental Technologies in the Czech Republic”
(hereinafter only “Continuous evaluation”), which contains examples of specific
measures that contributed to the support of the environment throughout the period
under question (the production of heat using bio-fuels, utilization of alternative fuels in
transport, intensification of bio-gas production, integrated prevention and reduction of
pollution). The Continuous evaluation also features ways of supporting environmental
technologies, namely the Support of Research and Development, Environmentally
Friendly Public Procurement, Defining Environmentally Friendly Products, Evaluating
the Environmental Impact of Public Support, Utilising Energy Services, Indicators
for Evaluating Support, Energy Benchmarking System, Managerial Accounting of
Sustainable Development, Experience with the Support of Renewable Energy Sources,
Environmental Criteria for Structural Funds, Environmental Investment Funds.
The Continuous evaluation shows that ways of supporting development and
application of environmentally beneficial technologies in the Czech Republic are
varied, as is the degree of their success. Demonstrable progress has been reached