Decree No. 289 of 2014 (XI. 26.) of the Government publishing the Statute of the International Agency of Renewable Energies (IRENA).

This Decree authorizes the recognition of the Statute of the International Agency of Renewable Energies (IRENA) as mandatory. The Statute, consisting of 20 articles, regulates the above mentioned International Agency under the Ministry of Energy, which will be responsible for taking the necessary measures of implementation: promoting a better dissemination of all forms of sustainable energy use, taking into consideration the National and local priorities and also the benefits originated from a combined approach of renewable energy, energy efficiency measures, and the contribution of renewable energies to the preservation of environment through the limitation of natural resources use, such as deforestation in particular of tropical tree species, desertification and the loss of local biodiversity.