Those objectives and targets stem from the Union policy on energy and from the need to preserve, protect and improve the quality of the environment and to promote the prudent and rational utilisation of natural resources, as provided for in the EU Treaties. None of those objectives, which are indissociably linked, can be regarded as secondary to the other.
Eascraíonn na cuspóirí agus na spriocanna sin as beartas an Aontais maidir le fuinneamh agus as an ngá atá le cáilíocht an chomhshaoil a chaomhnú, a chosaint agus a fheabhsú agus le húsáid stuama agus réasúnach acmhainní nádúrtha a chur chun cinn, mar a fhoráiltear i gConarthaí an Aontais.