International Workshop on Impact, compliance and control of energy legislations

Start/Stop Date:

01 – 02 Sep 09

Location:

Brussels, Belgium

Organiser:

An initiative of INIVE EEIG, in collaboration with the European SAVE ASIEPI project.

Venue:

Crowne Plaza Brussels City Centre Le Palace

Focus Areas:

Energy efficiency, buidlings, EPBD

Type of Event:

Conference

The workshop is focused on the impact, compliance and control of energy legislations. Through a series of well structured country presentations, the view of various European associations, synthesis presentations and a panel discussion is it envisaged to give the participants a clear view and to give indications of interesting approaches. More specifically, the workshop is focusing on the following issues :

• Evaluation of impact of national EPBD implementation on severity of requirements
• The objective is to obtain a good overview to what extent the implementation of the EPBD by the individual MS did result in more severe requirements in terms of energy efficiency and indoor climate specifications AND whether there is/has been a widening of the type of requirements (other buildings, more global requirements, indoor climate requirements, ...)
• Evaluation of handling of compliance and control in the different member states
• The objective is to obtain a good overview about the direct and indirect market mechanisms contributing to respect of the regulations for new and existing buildings (excluding inspection issues):
• Direct market mechanisms: e.g. handling of control by the responsible authority, inspections organised by the energy agencies of the MS, possibility (and use) of sanctions by government in case of non-compliance, ...
• Indirect market mechanisms: e.g. in some countries the market is organised as such that the role of specialised consultancy firms is important, that the large size of projects results in a better compliance, in other countries may the requirements by insurance companies result in more attention for energy regulations, also financial schemes (subsidies, fiscal deduction,...) may stimulate a better compliance,...
  

Based on a collection of information from the member states, pros and cons of the different approaches will be presented. This evaluation should be a major reference for the EC and MS when evaluating possibilities (and barriers) for obtaining better compliance with regulations.

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