63Moreover, while the Member States are encouraged, as is apparent from Articles 3(1) and 4 of Directive 2001/77, to take appropriate steps to encourage greater consumption of electricity produced from renewable energy sources, those steps including the support schemes adopted at national level, recital 15 in the preamble to that directive shows that the directive does not lay down a Community-wide framework for those schemes.
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