C 495/30
EN
Official Journal of the European Union
29.12.2022
Box 3: Key fair transition policies and measures for updated NECPs — promote energy efficiency improvements, including in the affordable social housing sector; provide financial incentives and advice to individuals, paying due attention to split incentives among owners and tenants and to the evolution of housing costs; — provide tailored information and advice to all consumers, and especially vulnerable households, including by using digital tools, on how to reduce energy demand and lower their energy bills.
Target energy savings measures towards consumption and production activities with high energy demand; — empower energy consumers by facilitating access to energy from renewable sources, by simplifying permitting procedures and further developing self-supply via citizen and renewable energy communities, accompanied by campaigns, with a special focus on vulnerable groups and consumers living in rural and remote areas (e.g.
EU outermost regions (40)); — prevent challenges to sustainable transport, including affordability for vulnerable households, through direct support measures and by developing the necessary infrastructure; — support access to quality employment, in particular through public employment services, tailored job search assistance and other active labour market policy measures (e.g. learning courses, hiring and transition incentives, targeted and time-bound employment programmes, support schemes for apprenticeships and quality traineeships); — promote job creation and entrepreneurship in green activities, for instance through financial and non-financial measures, ensuring accessible support for underrepresented and vulnerable groups and encouraging the promotion of green award criteria for entrepreneurs; — equip people with the right skills to access quality jobs and tackle labour shortages for the green and digital transitions, by promoting (1) inclusive education and training, in line with skills forecasts and through stakeholder partnerships, as the Pact for Skills (41); (2) schemes for apprenticeships, paid traineeships and job shadowing schemes; (3) adult training for upskilling and reskilling, for instance through individual learning accounts (42), widely recognised courses or joining the EU Pact for Skills (43); — ensure balanced and equal access to education and job opportunities at all levels and in all sectors, for instance by reducing the current gender imbalance that has so far characterised STEM students and the energy sector; — ensure fair tax-benefit systems and social protection to support the most affected people and households, in particular those in vulnerable situations, including through (1) targeted and temporary direct income support to complement investment measures, (2) shifting the tax burden away from labour incomes towards green objectives and (3) providing innovative job-to-job transition schemes to ensure income security during labour market transitions.
(40) The EU counts nine outermost regions located in the western Atlantic Ocean, the Caribbean basin, the Amazonian forest and the Indian Ocean.
In total, they are home to 4,8 million citizens.
The outermost regions are islands, archipelagos and one land territory (French Guiana) and are not part of the European continental grid.
Pursuant to Art.
5(1)(e)(iv) of the Governance Regulation, Member States should take account of geographical, environmental and natural constraints, including those of non-interconnected areas and regions in setting renewable energy targets.
(41) https://pact-for-skills.ec.europa.eu/index_en (42) Council Recommendation on individual learning accounts.
(43) See also JRC Report, Czako V. Skills for the clean energy transition, Publication Office for the European Union, Luxembourg, 2022, JRC129676.