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

4. Measures at the discretion of the MoE:
● to maintain a registry of selected environmentally harmful public support in the
Czech Republic,
● to develop tools and to secure a sufficient structure, expert and organizational
capacity for assessing and verifying environmental technologies,
● to prepare indicators for assessing and verifying environmental technologies based
on the unified European system of Environmental Technology Verification, taking
into account the LCA.
The approval of the measures proposed in the Update will have a substantial
positive impact on the fundamental elements of the environment because it will
decrease the resource and energy dependency of the economy and decrease the
emission of greenhouse gases (in particular CO 2 ) and of air-polluting substances,
reduce the quantity of discharged waste water and of produced waste. This way, it
will help to fulfil the international obligations that the Czech Republic accepted
or plans to accept in the environmental area (especially the obligations following
from the package of climate and energy measures or national emission ceilings for
some polluting substances). In addition, the proposed measures will strengthen the
energy and – in part – resource sufficiency of the Czech Republic.
From the economic point of view, the approval of the proposed measures will
strengthen the desirable (and, to a considerable degree, missing) cooperation
between R&D institutions and the private sector and will thus shift the Czech
Republic closer to a knowledge-based economy. In addition, we can expect that
new jobs will be created by strengthening the segment of small and medium-sized
companies.
Many of the proposed measures in the Update will also mitigate the impacts of
the current economic crisis. They are mostly measures focusing on stimulating the
demand for environmentally friendly products and services, on increasing the energy
efficiency and utilizing renewable energy sources, developing new technologies,
strengthening R&D institutions and their cooperation with the commercial sector
and funding the development of eco-innovation and facilitation of their transfer
into the practice.