1 Introduction
2 Legal Gap Assessment
2.1 Directives
2.1.1 Liberalisation of the Electricity Market (96/92/EC)
2.1.2 Liberalisation of the Gas Market (98/30/EC)
2.1.3 Energy Taxation (92/81/EEC)
2.1.4 Large Combustion Plant Directive (and Proposed Revision) (88/609/EEC)
2.1.5 SAVE Directive (93/76/EEC)
2.1.6 Directives on the Labelling of the Consumption of Energy (92/75/EEC)
2.1.7 Directives on Energy Efficiency Requirements for Household Appliances (96/57/EC and 92/42/EEC)
2.1.8 Directive on Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control (96/61/EC)
2.2 Decisions and Programmes
2.2.1 R&D Programmes: Energy Framework Programme (1998 - 2002)
2.2.2 Coal Subsidies
2.3 Environmental Agreements
2.4 General Policies and Strategies for the Future
2.4.1 Combined Heat and Power (Co-generation)
2.4.2 Renewable Energy Sources
2.4.3 Energy Efficiency
2.5 Planned and Proposed Activities
2.5.1 Integrated Resource Planning Directive
2.5.2 Feed-In Directive (Renewables)
2.6 Conclusions
3 Patterns of Regulation and Implementation
3.1 Profile of the Oil Shale Mining and Electricity Sector in Estonia
3.2 Institutional Framework in the Field of Energy and Environment
3.2.1 Government Constellations since 1991
3.2.2 Core Actors and Institutional Setting in the Field of Energy and Environment
3.3 Existing Policies and Implementation Practices
3.3.1 Choice and Content of National Measures in the Area of Energy and Environment
3.3.2 Assessment of Policy Instruments
3.3.3 Environmental Expenditure Analysis
3.3.4 Level of Compliance with International Emission Reduction Targets
3.4 Environmental Policy-Making in the Energy Sector: an Assessment of Policy Performance by Employing the Concept of Regulatory Patterns
3.4.1 Introduction
3.4.2 Analysis of Policy Instrumentation
3.4.3 Analysis of Policy Styles
3.4.4 Analysis of Actor Configurations and Institutional Arrangements
3.5 Socio-Economic Constraints
3.6 Points of Action for Future Institutional Capacity-Building
4 Existing Co-operation
4.1 Existing Co-operation Links
4.2 Best Practice Projects
4.2.1 Procurement of Ambient Air Quality Monitoring Equipment
4.2.2 Capacity 21 in Estonia
4.2.3 National Environmental Action Programme
4.2.4 Establishment of Regional Energy Centres
4.2.5 Local and regional energy planning
4.3 Conclusions
4.3.1 Environmental Problems Covered by the German – Estonian Co-operation
4.3.2 Evaluation of German – Estonian Co-operation
4.3.3 Niches for Future Co-operation
4.3.4 Lessons Learnt
5 References
5.1 Legal Gap Assessment
5.2 Patterns of Regulation and Implementation
5.3 Energy and Environment Data
6 Appendix
6.1 Energy and Environment Data
6.2 Monitoring of Accession Process
6.3 Screening of Co-operation Project
6.3.1 Co-operation Process in the Field of Environment
6.3.2 Co-operation Process in the Field of Energy
6.3.3 German – Estonian Co-operation