Areas of Union competence deriving from the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) 1. 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; and promoting measures at international level to deal with regional or worldwide environmental problems, and in particular combating climate change. (Article 191 of the TFEU) 2. 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. (Article 173 of the TFEU) 3. The common transport policy shall lay down common rules applicable to international transport to or from the territory of a Member State or passing across the territory of one or more Member States. It shall also set out the conditions under which non-resident carriers may operate transport services within a Member State, and lay down measures to improve transport safety. (Articles 91(1) and 100(2) of the TFEU) 4. 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; and promote the interconnection of energy networks. (Article 194(1) of the TFEU)

Competences of the Agency (as defined in Commission Decision 2004/20/EC, amended by Decision 2007/372/EC) Objectives Within the framework of the Lisbon strategy for growth and jobs, the European Union has taken measures to promote and develop competitiveness and innovation. These measures include the establishment of the Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme (CIP) 2007-2013 (Decision No 1639/2006/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council), notably with the programmes Intelligent Energy - Europe (IEE) and Entrepreneurship and Innovation (EIP). The main objectives are to foster competitiveness of enterprises, in particular SMEs; to promote all forms of innovation, as well as eco-innovation; to promote energy efficiency and new and renewable energy sources. The measures taken in the framework of the Lisbon strategy also include the second Marco Polo (MP) programme (Regulation (EC) No 1692/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council). The main objectives are to reduce congestion, improve the environmental performance of the transport system and to enhance inter-modal transport, thereby contributing to efficient and sustainable transport systems and to competitiveness and innovation, especially of SMEs. Under these EU programmes, the Agency is responsible for all implementing tasks concerning EU aid, except for programme evaluation, monitoring of legislation and strategic studies, or any other action which comes under the exclusive competence of the European Commission. Tasks Implementing the EU programmes according to the delegations received from the Commission: — to manage all phases in the lifetime of specific projects, — to carry out all operations necessary to manage the EU programmes, in particular budget implementation including awarding of contracts and grants, — to gather, analyse and pass on to the Commission all the information needed to guide the implementation of the programmes as well as to promote coordination and synergy among the programmes, — as regards the EIP, to be in charge of project management and network animation of the Enterprise Europe Network, eco-innovation pilot and market replication projects, and innovation actions with a high degree of standardisation (IP Base project).

Governance Steering Committee Comprises five members 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. Director Appointed by the European Commission. External audit European Court of Auditors. Discharge authority European Parliament, acting on a recommendation by the Council.

Resources made available to the Agency in 2012 (2011) Budget Operational budget The 241,34 (229,6) million euro planned (100 % general budget of the EU) were committed and 129,5 million euro paid. The EACI implements the operational budget under the responsibility of the Commission: — for IEE 83,87 (83,8) million euro, — for EIP-eco-innovation 35 (38,1) million euro, — for EIP-Networks 57,4 (50,9) million euro, — for MP 65,07 (56,8) million euro. Administrative budget 16,4 (15,6) million euro (100 % EU subsidy) for the administrative budget for which the EACI is autonomous. Staff at 31 December 2012 — Total staff: 162 (159) posts planned, of which 156 (156) occupied, — TA posts: 37 (37) planned, of which 37 (33) occupied, — Contract staff: 125 (122) posts planned, of which 119 (123) occupied.

Products and services 2012 EACI is responsible for the management of Union actions in the fields of energy, entrepreneurship and innovation (including eco-innovation), and sustainable freight transport under the following Union programmes: — the following parts of the Competitiveness and Innovation Framework programme: Intelligent Energy Europe programme II (2007-2013), project management and animation activities of the Enterprise Europe Network, IPR-projects and Eco-innovation first application and market replication projects, — the Marco Polo I (2003-2006) and II (2007-2013) programmes, — the Intelligent Energy Europe I programme (2003-2006). Intelligent Energy Europe (IEE) Key activities — For the Intelligent Energy Europe programme (IEE), 433 applications were received in response to the 2012 call for proposals, involving nearly 4 000 organisations from 32 countries, and a total of 67 proposals were selected for funding; — regarding the 2011 call, following the evaluation of 280 proposals, 48 projects were successfully negotiated; — in January the Agency held the most popular IEE information day thus far, with 780 participants from 31 countries. In addition the Agency participated in 21 other info days in the Member States. It also answered more than 1 300 enquiries sent to the IEE mailbox, 80 % of them in less than five days. Eco-innovation Eco-innovation is supported via the CIP through several types of measures (financial instruments, networks of national and regional actors, first application and market replication projects). The Agency is entrusted with the management of the eco-innovation first application and market replication projects with a budget of approximately 200 million euro for the 2008-2013 period. In 2012 efforts were concentrated on: — completion of the implementation of the 2011 call for proposals: negotiations were completed by end of November 2012; 47 contracts were signed; — new call for proposals: the call launched in April 2012 and closed in September attracted 284 proposals. Central evaluation took place from 19 November to 7 December 2012; — for the first time in the programme, an eco-innovators day was organised in November in Brussels with more than 200 participants. With the help of a tool used by the Enterprise Europe Network, a business matchmaking event was organised that resulted in 120 meetings between the participants, i.e. manufacturers, marketing experts, salespersons, innovators, opinion multipliers, etc., from across Europe. Marco Polo programme Key activities — in relation to Marco Polo, the European info day in June attracted 172 participants (and a further 115 live web stream viewers). On this occasion, no less than 36 bilateral meetings with potential Marco Polo beneficiaries were organised; — the 2012 call was published on 20 June and closed on 19 October. Fifty four proposals were received. The pre-evaluations took place between 19 and 27 November; — as regards the 2011 call, out of the 50 proposals received, 18 projects were successfully negotiated. The Award Decision was adopted on 20 July (after approval by DG MOVE); — management of ongoing projects: 35 on-site verification visits took place in respect of 32 projects. EIP programme - Enterprise Europe Network The programme is made up of more than 600 partner organisations in more than 50 countries, including the 27 EU Member States. In addition to project management tasks for 92 contracts (specific grant agreements) and the IPeuropAware project, the EACI is also responsible for the ‘animation’ of the Enterprise Europe Network and for managing the IT tools and databases for interactive communication among the network partners. A new IT system for the Network (‘Merlin’) was gradually rolled-out during 2012, preparing for a major release in 2013.