In January 2007, the Commission published a Renewable Energy Roadmap outlining a long-term strategy
and in 2009 the EU adopted Directive 2009/28/EC aiming at increasing the average renewable share
across the EU to 20% by 2020. Such Directive sets mandatory national targets for the overall share of
energy from renewable sources in gross final consumption of energy: the national target for Italy is
17%.. EU countries are free to decide their own preferred'mix' of renewable sources, allowing them to
take account of their different potentials. They had to present National Action Plans (NAPs) based on
indicative trajectories to the European Commission by 30 June 2010, followed by progress reports to be
submitted every two years. The objective expressed in the form of a share of energy from renewable
sources relative to total consumption in transport, electricity and heating and cooling in 2020 also takes
into account the effects of other policy measures addressing energy efficiency.
The Directive 2009/28/EU has been transposed by the Legislative Decree N. 28 of 3rd March 2011. The