The European Parliament and the Council, acting in accordance with the ordinary legislative procedure and after consulting the Economic and Social Committee, shall establish […] the other provisions necessary for the pursuit of the objectives of the […] the common fisheries policy.

In pursuing these objectives, the Union shall carry out the following activities, complementing the activities carried out in the Member States: (a) implementation of research, technological development and demonstration programmes, by promoting cooperation with and between undertakings, research centres and universities; (b) promotion of cooperation in the field of Union research, technological development and demonstration with third countries and international organisations; (c) dissemination and optimisation of the results of activities in Union research, technological development and demonstration; (d) stimulation of the training and mobility of researchers in the Union.

The Union shall have the objective of strengthening its scientific and technological bases by achieving a European research area in which researchers, scientific knowledge and technology circulate freely, and encouraging it to become more competitive, including in its industry. […] For this purpose the Union shall […] encourage undertakings, including small and medium-sized undertakings, research centres and universities in their research and technological development activities of high quality; it shall support their efforts to cooperate with one another, aiming, notably, at permitting researchers to cooperate freely across borders and at enabling undertakings to exploit the internal market potential to the full, in particular through […] the definition of common standards and the removal of legal and fiscal obstacles to that cooperation. […]

Union policy on energy shall aim to ensure the functioning of the energy market; ensure security of energy supply in the Union; promote energy efficiency and energy saving and the development of new and renewable forms of energy; promote the interconnection of energy networks.

The Union policy on industry shall ensure that the conditions necessary for the competitiveness of the Union’s industry exist by speeding up the adjustment of industry to structural changes, encouraging an environment favourable to initiative and to the development of and cooperation between undertakings, fostering better exploitation of the industrial potential of policies of innovation, research and technological development. The Member States shall consult each other in liaison with the Commission and, where necessary, shall coordinate their action. The Commission may take any useful initiative to promote such coordination, in particular initiatives aiming at the establishment of guidelines and indicators, the organisation of exchange of best practice, and the preparation of the necessary elements for periodic monitoring and evaluation. The European Parliament shall be kept fully informed.

The Union policy on the environment shall contribute to preserving, protecting and improving the quality of the environment; protecting human health; prudent and rational utilisation of natural resources; promoting measures at international level to deal with regional or worldwide environmental problems, and in particular combating climate change.

Areas of Union competence deriving from the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU)

providing support in programme implementation where the Commission has empowered it to do so in the instrument of delegation.

adopting the instruments of budget execution for revenue and expenditure and carrying out all the operations necessary for the management of the programme, where the Commission has empowered it to do so in the instrument of delegation;

managing some or all stages of programme implementation and some or all phases in the lifetime of specific projects on the basis of the relevant work programmes adopted by the Commission, where the Commission has empowered it to do so in the instrument of delegation;

The Agency shall be responsible for the following tasks related to the implementation of the parts of the Union programmes referred to above:

The Agency strives to provide ‘high-quality support to our beneficiaries, turning EU policy into action. As an executive agency of the European Commission, we manage significant parts of COSME, LIFE, Horizon 2020 and EMFF. We ensure that actions funded by these programmes deliver results and provide the Commission with valuable input for its policy tasks’.

In addition, the Agency is entrusted with the implementation of the legacy of the following actions under the CIP: (a) the ‘Intelligent energy Europe’ (IEE II); (b) the ‘Eco-innovation initiative’; (c) the ‘Enterprise Europe network’; (d) the ‘Your Europe business portal’; (e) the ‘European IPR helpdesk’; (f) the ‘IPorta project’.

The framework programme for research and innovation 2014-2020 (Horizon 2020) — parts of ‘Part II — Industrial Leadership’ and ‘Part III Societal challenges’.

programme for the competitiveness of enterprises and small and medium-sized enterprises (COSME) 2014-2020;

The Agency is responsible for the management of Union actions in the fields of SME support, energy, environment, maritime and fisheries, entrepreneurship and innovation (including eco-innovation). It is entrusted with the implementation of parts of the following Union programmes:

Comprises five members and three observers appointed by the European Commission. It adopts the Agency’s annual work programme after approval by the European Commission. In addition, it adopts the administrative budget of the Agency and its annual activity report.

24,5(16,4) million euro (100 % EU subsidy) for the administrative budget, for which the EASME is independently responsible.

The 1 056,5 (1) (242,9) million euro planned (of which 100 % came from the general budget of the EU) were committed and 123,11 (2) (213,9) million euro was paid of the appropriations (98,98 %) voted by the Budget Authority. The EASME implements the operational budget under the responsibility of the Commission:

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