European Parliament

The European Parliament’s body dealing with energy-related issues is the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy, whose members include three Czech Euro-deputies. The Committee’s Vice-President is Ing. Evžen Tošenovský, Dr. h.c. while PhDr. Miloslav Ransdorf, CSc. and Ing. Jan Březina are its rank-and-file members.

The Committee on Industry, Research and Energy is responsible for:

1. the Union's industrial policy and the application of new technologies, including measures relating to SMEs; 
2. the Union's research policy, including the dissemination and exploitation of research findings; 
3. space policy; 
4. the activities of the Joint Research Centre and the Central Office for Nuclear Measurements, as well as JET, ITER and other projects in the same area; 
5. Community measures relating to energy policy in general, the security of energy supply and energy efficiency including the establishment and development of trans-European networks in the energy infrastructure sector; 
6. the Euratom Treaty and Euratom Supply Agency; nuclear safety, decommissioning and waste disposal in the nuclear sector; 
7. the information society and information technology, including the establishment and development of trans-European networks in the telecommunication infrastructure sector.

Source: The European Parliament 2009