Thermie II: financial support for the promotion of European energy technology 1995-1998

The European Parliament approved the Commission proposal with certain amendments that aimed to ensure that: - the appropriations to finance actions in the area of non-nuclear energies for 1995-98, within or outside the Fourth Framework Programme for RTD, were no lower than they had been for the previous corresponding period; - financial support could exceed 35% of the cost of eligible projects where the projects were the result of collaboration between entreprises established in different Member States. Through other amendments, Parliament called for: - the simplification of the procedures involved, greater transparency, an evaluation by independent experts and adequate information for the EP and for the consultative committees; - the coordination and promotion of demonstration projects within the framework of international cooperation (Phare, Tacis, Mediterranean, Asia, Latin America); - the appropriations to be broken down as follows: rational energy use: 45%; renewable energy sources: 35%; clean combustion of solid fuels: 13%; hydrocarbons: 7%. �