1. RES-H Policy Advisory Committee 1. Project Meeting Freiburg, 21 October 2008 Veit Bürger (v.buerger@oeko.de)

2. 2 Scope Advisory Committee will meet three times AC will discuss the progress of the work programme of the project and its intermediate results Involvement of selected senior representatives of important target groups (especially national policy makers and RES-H/C industry representatives) serves as a means of dissemination of the project results in an early stage AC allows for information exchange between national policy makers All partners are supposed to attend the AC meetings Number of AC members will be minimum 10 external participants

3. 3 Timing 1. AC meeting –February 2009 (back to back to 2. project meeting, London) –Focus: RES-H/C target setting (discussion of interim findings of WP3) 2. AC meeting –November 2009 (back to back to 4. project meeting, Warshaw) –Focus: qualitative evaluation of selected RES-H/C policy options (WP4) 3. AC meeting –October 2010 (back to back to 6. project meeting, Athens) –Focus: Discussion of policy recommendations

4. 4 Composition German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, more or less confirmed European Renewable Energy Council (EREC), confirmed European RES-H/C technology specific Associations (e.g. ESTIF, AEBIOM, EGEC) Euroheat & Power E.ON Värme Sverige, confirmed Selected national policy makers (at least one per target country) Who else?

5. 5 Next steps Partners from target countries identify representative from national policy sector Oeko responsible for AC members on EU level Oeko will coordinate the approach of potential national AC members Timeline: AC should be set up by the end of this year