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The Intelligent Energy Executive Agency was renamed the Executive Agency for Competitiveness and Innovation (EACI) in 2007, in accordance with the integration of the Intelligent Energy - Europe Programme into the Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme 2007-2013

The Intelligent Energy Executive Agency was set up by Decision No 2004/20/EC. Under the Community programme Intelligent Energy - Europe, established by Decision No 1230/2003/EC, the Agency will be responsible for implementing the tasks concerning Community aid under the programme, except for programme evaluation, monitoring of legislation and strategic studies, or any other action which comes under the exclusive competence of the Commission.

The Agency started operations in Autumn 2004 and is located in Brussels. It is responsible for the following tasks:

1. managing all the phases in the lifetime of specific projects in the context of implementing the Community programme Intelligent Energy - Europe on the basis of Decision 1230/2003/EC and the work programme provided for in this Decision and adopted by the Commission following the advice of the committee of the programme, as well as the necessary checks to that end, by adopting the relevant decisions where the Commission has empowered it to do so;
2. adopting the instruments of budget implementation for revenue and expenditure and carrying out, where the Commission has empowered it to do so, all the operations necessary to manage the Community programme and, in particular, those linked to the award of contracts and grants;
3. gathering, analysing and passing on to the Commission all the information needed to guide the implementation of the Community programme, as well as any other information or report for the Commission provided for in the work programme or in the instrument of delegation.