1. 1 Slovak Policy in the area of RE and EE Juraj Valach Ministry of Economy Slovak Republic July 3-4, 2003, Szentendre

2. 2 Slovak Energy Policy approved by Slovak Government 12th January 2000 Three main pillars: preparation on integration to the EU internal market security of energy supply sustainable development

3. 3 New strategy documents New Slovak concept for renewable energy New energy act

4. 4 New concept of the Slovak RES 1. RES Technical Usable Potential 2. Current situation analysis including barriers 3. Opportunities and targets 4. Implementation plan

5. 5 RES Technical Usable Potential Type Technical Usable Potential (TJ/year) Real Exploitation (TJ/year) Geothermal22 6801 224 Wind2 1780 Solar18 72025 Small Water Power Stations3 722727 Biomass60 45811 491 Waste12 7264 504 Biological Fuel9 0001 188 All112 63619 159 Water Power Stations23 78518 335 All136 42137 494

6. 6 Current Support of RES in the Slovak Republic Strategic documents Legislation Finance instruments

7. 7 Legislative support of RES Accession of the electricity from RES to the energetic networks Comparative administrative demand according to building and operating of the energy sources based on RES Discharge of the income tax in the year, that the source will be build and in the next 5 years

8. 8 Finance instruments pre-entry aid of EU PHARE, ISPA and SAPARD community programs SAVE II, 5FP, 6FP mechanisms of Kyoto protocol Joint Implementation

9. 9 Slovak RES Energy Concept Critical areas inadequate implementation capacities according to Slovak commitments and targets quality and availability of information low level of preparation and elaboration of RES projects higher risk for RES project realization environmental impacts of RES projects

10. 10 Slovak RES Energy Concept Opportunities and Targets new definition of state role for RES support creation of new implementation mechanism unify information status for international level implementation agency for structural funds identify and implement tools for meeting the national and international obligations and targets increase of quality and accessibility of information more efficient contribution in domestic and international support programs

11. 11 Slovak RES Energy Concept Implementing mechanism Creation of management committee; Participation of relevant government departments; Creation of the Program for control of RES development ad-hoc working group, where the participants are the representatives of these departments, if necessary then representatives of regional self- administration, energy institutions, finance institutions, non-governmental organizations or private sector.

12. 12 Three Targets of the Program Strategic planning in the part of the RES development, Co-operation within the formulation of official position of the Slovak Republic in the part of RES in accordance to foreign institutions, Design of system arrangements for support of RES exploitation development

13. 13 New Energy Act Acceptance of European legislation requests Changes in the energy structure and changes in the property Modification of the competences between Institute for Regulation of Network Industries and Ministry of Economy SR

14. 14 Thank you for your attention Juraj Valach Counsellor Section of Production & Network Industries Ministry of Economy Mierová 19 tel:+421-2- 4854 1909 827 15 Bratislava fax:+421-2- 4854 3914 Slovak Republic email: valach@economy.gov.sk