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

1. Measures requiring new legislation or amendments to the law:
● to set parameters of the tax and fee systems so that they support the development
and increase in the efficiency of environmental technologies and to stimulate
demand for environmentally friendly products and services,
● to increase the share of purchased environmentally friendly products and services in
public procurement.
2. Measures requiring the approval of the Government
(decrees, government resolutions):
● to increase the energy efficiency in production and consumption,
● to support carbon-free or low-carbon technologies,
● to support the utilization of renewable energy sources in the production of heat and
in heating.
3. Measures requiring an agreement between two or more ministries:
● to strengthen environmental criteria in Operational Programmes,
● to support more extensive utilization of energy contracting in the Czech Republic as
a part of the State Programme of Support for Energy Savings and Usage of Renewable
Energy Sources,
● to propose a benchmarking system for environmentally relevant (in particular
energy- and resource-intensive) products and technologies, taking into account the
LCA,
● to set priorities for eco-innovations in implementing the National Research
Programme III,
● to place greater emphasis on cooperation with the commercial sector in the system
of R&D support in general and in particular in the area of eco-innovations,
● to support the mobility of people involved in R&D among various research
organizations and businesses in the area of eco-innovations,
● to create a system of support for funding test phases of eco-innovations and the first
(reference) versions of eco-innovative technologies,
● to increase the availability of capital for eco-innovative projects of small and
medium-sized businesses,
● to give an impulse to the establishment of an interest group (cluster) representing
the sector of environmental technologies and eco-innovations,
● to create a generally accessible registry of R&D projects for eco-innovations.
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