The fiscal measure EIA started on 1 January 1997. Experiences with implementation
of the comparable instrument VAMIL (as of 1991) served as an example. Each
year an annual report on the functioning of the EIA is published. The focus is on
giving a general overview of how the applications for EIA are spread between industries
and techniques. Besides, a report is published which aim is to roughly calculate
the annual energy saving effect of the instrument (in natural gas equivalents
and TJ). Also the carbon reduction effect (in kton CO2) and the cost efficiency of
the EIA (in Euro per ton CO2) are calculated. In the first year the 79% of the EIA
budget was claimed without any campaign for promoting the new instrument (see
Table 1).
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