Memoire Online - La biomasse, activité alternative au développement des zones rurales

*Country*	Production Heat	Production electricity	Total in GWh in 1999
France	106 906	2 019	108 925
Sweden	68 443	11 727	80 170
Italy	76 100	750	76 850
Austria	26 800	1 500	28 300
Denmark	7 100	500	7 600
Germany	14 000	195	14 195
Finland	49 500	7 000	56 500
Remain of the EU	86 020	7 480	93 500
Total EU	434 869	31 171	466 040

Appendix 7 : Energy production starting from biogas in the European Union

*Country*	Production in GWh in 1999
Spain	13 900
Sweden	1 360
France	665
Denmark	572
Italy	495
Austria	368
Finland	120
Germany	1 760
Remain of the EU	2 965
Total EU	22 205

Appendix 8 : Comparison between the current tendency and the objectives of the White Paper for the production of biocarurant in the European Union

Appendix 9 : European objectives of development of the biomass by 2003 and 2010

Applications	Objectives 2003	Objectives 2010
10.000 MWth generated by installations of cogénération-biomass	4,3Mtep	26Mtep
1.000.000 of residences heated by biomass	4,5Mtep	Nonavailable
1.000 MW of biogas installation	2,25Mtep	15Mtep
5 million tons of biocarburants liquids	3,95Mtep	18Mtep

Appendix 10 : objectives of EAGGF

Objective 1

Development and adjustment structural of backward region of development (135,9 billion euros)

· areas whose GDP per capita is lower than 75% of the Community average;

· Finnish and Swedish areas concerned with old Objective 6 (development of zones very little populated)

· peripheral ultra areas (French departments of overseas, the Canary Islands, the Azores and Madeira)

Objective 2

Economic and social reconversion of the zones in structural difficulty (22,5 billion euros)

Industrial parks
The eligible zones of level NUTS III^48(*) observe the three following conditions:

· a rate of unemployment higher than the Community average;

· a percentage of industrial employment higher than the Community average

· a decline of industrial employment

Rural zones
The eligible zones of level NUTS III respect two of the four following coupled criteria:

· a density of population lower than 100 inhabitants with the km ² or a rate of agricultural employment equal or higher than the double of the Community average

· a rate of unemployment higher than the Community average or a reduction in the population.

Urban zones
The eligible zones answer the one of the 5 following conditions:

· a rate of unemployment of long superior duration to the Community average;

· a high level of poverty;

· an environment particularly degraded;

· a high rate of criminality;

· a low level of education.

Zones dependant on fishings
The eligible zones must have at the same time a rate of important employment in the fisheries sector and a significant fall of employment in this sector.

Other zones
(maximum 50% in each State concerned)
Eligibility with Objective 2 extends to:

· certain zones contiguous to eligible areas with Objective 1 or the industrial and rural parks of Objective 2;

· rural zones knowing a significant ageing or a major reduction in the farming population;

· zones confronted withserious problems structural or a rate of unemployment raised following the reorganization of one or more determining activities in the sectors agricultural, industrial or of services.

Objective 3

Adaptation and modernization of the policies and systems of education, training and employment (24,05 billion euros)

The regulation takes into account the whole of the policies, practices and needs for the Member States according to their national plan for employment. Over the period 2000-2006, Objective 3 thus covers a broad range of interventions aiming :

· the promotion of the active policies of the labor market to fight unemployment;

· the promotion of accessibility at the labor market with a detailed attention for the people threatened of social exclusion;

· reinforcement of the employability thanks to the systems of education and continuous training;

· the promotion of measurements to anticipate and facilitate the adaptation to the economic and social changes;

· the promotion of the equal opportunity for the men and the women.

· Measurements of Objective 3 covers the whole of the European territory; in the areas of Objective 1, they are integrated in the programming with other measurements of development and structural adjustments.

* ⁴⁸ The nomenclature of the statistical territorial units (NUTS) was created by the European Office of the Eurostat statistics in order to have a single and coherent diagram of territorial distribution. There are 1093 territories of level NUTS 3

La biomasse, activité alternative au développement des zones rurales

Appendix 6 : Energy production starting from wood-energy in the European Convention countries in 1999

Appendix 7 : Energy production starting from biogas in the European Union

Appendix 8 : Comparison between the current tendency and the objectives of the White Paper for the production of biocarurant in the European Union

Appendix 9 : European objectives of development of the biomass by 2003 and 2010

Appendix 10 : objectives of EAGGF