What changed between the adopted text of 14 Mar 2023 and the adopted text of 12 Mar 2024

Removed:Article 15a

Removed:One-stop-shops for energy efficiency in buildings

Removed:1. Member States shall ensure the establishment of technical assistance facilities, including through inclusive one-stop-shops for energy efficiency in buildings, targeting all actors involved in building renovations, including home owners and administrative, financial and economic actors, including microenterprises and SMEs. Member States shall ensure that the technical assistance facilities are equally available across their territory depending on population distribution by establishing at least one one-stop-shop per region and in any event per 45 000 inhabitants.

Removed:The Commission shall cooperate with the European Investment Bank, Member States and regions to facilitate the functioning and continuity of funding of one-stop-shops for energy efficiency in buildings until at least 31 December 2029.

Removed:2. Member States shall cooperate with relevant regional and local authorities as well as private stakeholders for the purpose of establishing one-stop shops for energy efficiency in buildings at national, regional and local levels. Member States may designate the one-stop shops established pursuant to Article 21(2a) of Directive (EU).../... [recast EED] as one-stop shops for the purposes of this Article.

Removed:One-stop shops for energy efficiency in buildings shall be independent public entities, cross-sectorial and interdisciplinary and shall provide their service free of charge for the users. They shall provide tailor made advice to different target groups on energy efficiency in buildings and may accompany integrated district renovation programs. One-stop shops may cooperate with private actors that provide and promote services relevant for energy renovation, such as financing solutions and the execution of energy renovations, and, where appropriate, that connect potential projects, in particular smaller-scale projects, with market actors.

Removed:To facilitate the establishment and services of one-stop shops for energy efficiency in buildings, Member States shall review their public procurement rules for energy efficiency renovations tendering.

Removed:One-stop shops shall support locally developed projects by providing technical, administrative and financial advice and assistance, such as:

Removed:(a) providing legal assistance, reinforced protection to overcome split-incentives in privately rented homes, streamlined information on technical support, tailor-made financial assistance and available funding opportunities in particular grant and subsidy schemes, and solutions to households, microenterprises and SMEs, and public bodies;

Removed:(b) connecting potential projects, in particular smaller-scale projects, with market actors;

Removed:(c) advising on energy consumption behaviour with the aim of actively engaging the consumers, providing access to affordable energy offers;

Removed:(d) providing information and access to training programmes and education, including for local authorities and social services to provide technical assistance, to ensure more energy efficiency professionals and to re-skill and up-skill professionals in order to meet the market needs;

Removed:(e) collecting and submitting typology aggregated data to the Commission from energy efficiency projects, facilitated by the one-stop shops,, which shall be published by the Commission in a report by ... [date of transposition of this Directive] and every two years thereafter in order to exchange knowledge and enhance cross-border cooperation between Member States for the purpose of promoting best practice examples from different building, housing and enterprise typologies;

Removed:(f) supporting awareness-raising activities, including information on incentives for regulating indoor environmental quality and installing the necessary devices during major renovations;

Removed:(g) providing and developing holistic support to all households, with a special attention to vulnerable householdsand to people living in social housing as well as to those with health problems linked to the worst-performing buildings, as well as to accredited companies and installers providing renovation services, adapted to different housing typologies and geographical scope, and providing support covering the different stages of the renovation project in particular to facilitate the implementation of the minimum energy performance standards laid down in Article 9;

Removed:(h) providing information on accessibility, availability of renewable energy self consumption, renewable energy communities and other alternatives to fossil heating and cooling in buildings, and information on materials and solutions on energy efficiency, energy storage and renewable energy technologies for buildings;

Removed:(i) supporting engagement with relevant local stakeholders and citizens in the evaluation of the impact of minimum energy performance standards on housing affordability and quality.

Removed:Member States shall cooperate with local and regional authorities to encourage cooperation among public bodies, energy agencies and community-led initiatives and to promote, develop and up-scale one-stop shops through an integrated process. The Commission shall provide guidelines to Member States to develop those one-stop shops with the aim of creating a harmonised approach throughout the Union.

Removed:Article 16

Removed:Energy performance certificates

Removed:1. ▌ The energy performance certificate shall include the energy performance of a building expressed by a numeric indicator of primary and final energy use in kWh/(m2.y), and the life-cycle GWP by a numeric indicator of whole life-cycle greenhouse gas emissions in kgCO2eq/(m2)and reference values such as minimum energy performance requirements, minimum energy performance standards, nearly zero-energy building requirements and zero-emission building requirements, in order to make it possible for owners or tenants of the building or building unit to compare and assess its energy performance. The energy performance certificate shall include additional numeric indicators, in particular total annual energy consumption (kWh/year), annual energy needs for heating, cooling, ventilation and hot water, energy consumption per square metre per year (kWh/(m2.y), annual non-renewable primary energy use in kWh/(m2.y), and final energy for heating, cooling, domestic hot water, ventilation, built-in lighting and other building services, and may include additional efficiency and safety requirements for appliances.

Removed:2. By 31 December 2025, the energy performance certificate shall comply with the template in Annex V.

Removed:By way of derogation from the first subparagraph, Member States that have revised their system of certification of the energy performance of buildings between 1 January 2019 and ... [date of entry into force of this Directive], may continue to use that system to comply with Article 9(1), and may determine their worst-performing buildings using data from their building stock between 1 January 2019 and ... [date of entry into force of this Directive] as a baseline, renovating at least the equivalent number or the equivalent useful floor area of worst-performing buildings identified in Article 9(1a), or the equivalent level of energy performance improvement. Where a Member State benefits from the derogation provided for in the second subparagraph, it shall, by 1 January 2030, update its performance classes in accordance with the first subparagraph on the basis of the performance of their national building stock between 1 January 2019 and ... [date of entry into force of this Directive].

Removed:Pursuant to the first subparagraph of this paragraph, Member States shall specify the energy performance class of the building, on a closed scale using only letters ▌A to G. The letter A shall correspond to zero emission buildings as defined in Article 2, point (2). Member States may define an A+ energy performance class for buildings that meet all of the following conditions:

Removed:(a) high efficiency standards with energy needs for heating, cooling, ventilation and hot water no higher than 15 kWh/m2/year;

Removed:(b) higher production of kWh renewable energy on-site, based on a monthly average;

Removed:(c) carbon positivity regarding the building’s life-cycle GWP including building materials and energy installations during manufacturing, installation, use, maintenance, and demolition.

Removed:The letter G shall correspond to the 15 % worst-performing buildings in the national building stock at the time of the introduction of the scale. Member States shall ensure that the remaining classes A to F have an even bandwidth distribution of energy performance indicators among the energy performance classes. Member States shall ensure a common visual identity for energy performance certificates on their territory.

Removed:2a. Member States may finance the roll out of energy performance certificates as a measure under Article 8 of Directive (EU) ..../…. [recast EED].

Removed:2b. Member States shall compile a register of energy performance certificates in accordance with Article 19, including in order to facilitate integrated district renovation schemes in line with the Union’s climate objectives.

Removed:3. Member States shall ensure the quality, reliability and affordability of energy performance certificates. They shall ensure that energy performance certificates are affordable and at no cost for vulnerable households and issued by independent experts following an on-site visit. The energy performance certificates shall be clear and easily legible and be available in a machine-readable format and in accordance with Annex V.

Removed:4. The energy performance certificate shall include recommendations for the cost effective improvement of the energy performance to cost-optimal level and the reduction of whole life-cycle greenhouse gases emissions, the improvement of indoor environmental quality of a building or building unit, and recommendations to improve the smart readiness level pursuant to Article 13, unless the building or building unit already complies with the relevant zero-emission building standard.

Removed:The recommendations included in the energy performance certificate shall cover:

Removed:(a) measures carried out in connection with a major renovation of the building envelope or technical building ▌systems; and

Removed:(b) measures for individual building elements independent of a major renovation of the building envelope or technical building ▌systems.

Removed:5. The recommendations included in the energy performance certificate shall be technically feasible for the specific building and shall provide an estimate for the energy savings and the reduction of operational greenhouse gas emissions over the expected service life of the building and the improvement of indoor environmental quality performance indicators. They may provide an estimate for the range of payback periods or cost-benefits over its economic lifecycle and information on available financial incentives, administrative and technical assistance along with financial benefits, which are broadly associated with the achievement of the reference values. Once the relevant reporting mechanisms and targets set out in Articles 7, 8 and 11a are in force, the energy performance certificate shall include relevant recommendations.

Removed:6. The recommendations shall include an assessment of the remaining lifespan of the space heating systems and the air conditioning systems, and an assessment of whether the space and water heating or air conditioning system can be adapted to operate at more efficient temperature settings, such as low temperature emitters for water based heating systems, including the required design of thermal power output and temperature/flow requirements.

Removed:6a. The recommendations shall indicate possible alternatives for the replacement of the technical building systems for heating and cooling where relevant, in line with the 2030 and 2050 climate targets, suitable to that type of building and taking into account local and system-related circumstances.

Removed:7. The energy performance certificate shall provide an indication, where the owner or tenant can receive more detailed information, including as regards the cost optimality of the recommendations made in the energy performance certificate, and the contact information and address of the closest one-stop shop established pursuant to Article 15a. The evaluation of cost optimality shall be based on a set of standard conditions in accordance with Article 6, such as the assessment of energy savings and underlying energy prices and a preliminary cost forecast. In addition, it shall contain information on the steps to be taken to implement the recommendations, and on any available financial support. Other information on related topics, such as energy audits or incentives of a financial or other nature and financing possibilities, or advice on how to increase the climate resilience of the building and the safety of installed appliances, may also be provided to the owner or tenant.

Removed:8. Certification for building units may be based:

Removed:(a) on a common certification of the whole building; or

Removed:(b) on the assessment of another representative building unit with the same energy relevant characteristics in the same building.

Removed:9. Certification for single-family houses may be based on the assessment of another representative building of similar design and size with a similar actual energy performance quality if such correspondence can be guaranteed by the expert issuing the energy performance certificate.

Removed:9a. The Commission shall, after consulting the relevant stakeholders and reviewing existing methodologies and tools, develop a European certification scheme for energy efficiency meters. That certification scheme may be used by Member States to encourage the use of certified energy efficiency metering technologies, and to strengthen energy performance certificates with real-time measurement.

Removed:10. The validity of the energy performance certificate shall not exceed five years. However for buildings with an energy performance class A+, A, B or C established pursuant to paragraph 2, the validity of the energy performance certificate shall not exceed 10 years.

Removed:11. Member States shall make simplified procedures for updating an energy performance certificate available where only individual elements are upgraded (single or standalone measures) in order to reduce the cost of issuance of the updated certificate.

Removed:Member States shall make simplified procedures for updating an energy performance certificate available where measures identified in a renovation passport are put in place in order to reduce the cost of issuance of the updated certificate, or where a building digital twin is used, and data of building performance can be updated.

Removed:Article 17

Removed:Issue of energy performance certificates

Removed:1. Member States shall ensure that a digital energy performance certificate is issued for:

Removed:(a) buildings or building units which are constructed, have undergone a major renovation, are sold or rented out to a new tenant or for which a rental contract is renewed or which a mortgage is refinanced;

Removed:(b) buildings owned or occupied by publicbodies.

Removed:The requirement to issue an energy performance certificate shall not apply where a certificate, issued in accordance with either Directive 2010/31/EU or this Directive, for the building or building unit concerned is available and valid. Member States shall ensure that vulnerable households receive financial support for issuing energy performance certificates.

Removed:2. Member States shall require that, when buildings or building units are constructed, have undergone a major renovation, are sold or rented out or when rental contracts are renewed, or which have their mortgage refinanced the energy performance certificate is shown to the prospective tenant or buyer and handed over to the buyer or tenant.

Removed:3. Where a building is sold or rented out in advance of construction or major renovation, Member States may require the seller to provide an assessment of its future energy performance, as a derogation from paragraphs 1 and 2; in that case, the energy performance certificate shall be issued at the latest once the building has been constructed or renovated and shall reflect the as-built state.

Removed:4. Member States shall require that buildings or buildings units which are offered for sale or for rent have a valid energy performance certificate,and that the energy performance indicator and class of the energy performance certificate of the building or the building unit, as applicable, is stated in online and offline advertisements, including in property search portal websites.

Removed:Member States shall carry out sample checks or other controls to ensure compliance with these requirements.

Removed:5. The provisions of this Article shall be implemented in accordance with applicable national rules on joint ownership or common property.

Removed:6. The possible effects of energy performance certificates in terms of legal proceedings, if any, shall be decided in accordance with national rules.

Removed:7. Member States shall ensure that all energy performance certificates issued are uploaded to the database for energy performance of building referred to in Article 19. The upload shall contain the full energy performance certificate, including all necessary data required for the calculation of the energy performance of the building.