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The Netherlands has adopted several targets regarding renewable energy. For the ‘Clean and Economical´ working programme and the targets for the Renewable Energy Directive, the same way of counting imports and exports applies.

For renewable electricity, within the framework of the EU Directive, the European Commission stipulates that imports of green electricity in the EU (registered via the system of Guarantees of Origin) can only be counted towards realising the targets of the importing country, if the exporting country relinquishes its claim to count the production towards its own targets (European Commission, 2004). In the new EU Renewable Energy Directive, the following principle is also applied.

In determining target realisation the following order is important: (1) domestic production;

(2) import and export;

(3) import and export about which specific agreements have been made; (4) amount of renewable energy that counts towards target realisation.

For imported renewable electricity, the amount of avoided fossil fuels is determined with the help of the average Dutch efficiency. That only applies to avoided fossil fuels, not to the avoided CO2emission.

De avoided CO2emission always counts in then country of origin (emissions are always assigned in the country where they arise).

Finally, the Netherlands until now (2009) has not counted imported electricity towards the realisation of Dutch targets. The reason is that the exporting countries have not given their explicit permission to subtract the exported volume of green electricity from their target and to count it towards the Dutch target.

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