Notes that Europe needs to make efforts in its industrial and RD capacity to remain in the vanguard when it comes to RES technology; emp
hasises the need to facilitate a competitive environment for the operations and internationalisation of SMEs and to strive to reduce bureaucratic obstacles in such efforts; stresses that only innovation, based on RD, can secure Europe’s leading position in RES technology markets; stresses private investors’ need for certainty; calls on the Commission to foster an industrial strategy for energy technologies, including, in particular, renewable energy technologies, to ensure that the EU’s leading posit
...[+++]ion in energy technologies and in particular in the field of renewable energies is maintained;