This annual activity report is a management report of the Director-General of DG ENER to the College of Commissioners. Annual activity reports are the main instrument of management accountability within the Commission and constitute the basis on which the College takes political responsibility for the decisions it takes as well as for the coordinating, executive and management functions it exercises, as laid down in the Treaties (5).
At the beginning of 2023, DG ENER was faced with the necessity to tackle the continued energy crisis (6), making sure to further mitigate its impacts by implementing the REPowerEU Plan and its three core objectives (7) to save energy, diversify energy sources, and accelerate the clean energy transition. Whilst 2022 action was inevitably focused on rapidly enhancing the EU’s preparedness to Russian gas supply disruptions, 2023 was marked by a series of important achievements on the medium to long-term perspective, with a view to accelerating the deployment of non-fossil energy.