A template for the National Renewable Energy Action Plan (NREAP) was recently released by the European Commission. The establishment of the template is required by the Renewable Energy Directive. The template serves to guide member states to outline and detail their long-term renewable energy action plans to achieve the 2020 renewable energy target (i.e. 20% of total energy needs of each member state to be powered by renewable energy). The NREAP template requires the member states to "specify national policies on enabling measures such as revising administrative procedures, building codes, information and training, energy infrastructure development and access, support schemes and flexibility measures". The template is expected to guarantee the completeness of the NREAPs, and also to ensure their comparability with each other. The template can be accessed at the Europa website (URL above)..