Committee on Construction, City Planning, and Housing-Public Utility Economy recommends Verkhovna Rada adopt bill "On Energy performance of Buildings" as a basis

Information Department of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Secretariat
28 September 2016, 10:25

The Committee members considered the bill No. 4941 at their meeting on September 21.

In particular, the bill offers to determine:

  • major principles of state policy and information support in the field of energy performance of buildings;
  • procedural and institutional principles of certification of energy performance of buildings;
  • peculiarities of examination of heating and conditioning systems at buildings;
  • conduction of major energy efficient measures at buildings and mechanisms of their financing;
  • peculiarities of elaboration of national plans to increase the number of buildings with the close-to-zero level of energy consumption; etc.

In compliance with the bill, certification of energy performance is envisaged for facilities under construction and already existing buildings.

The energy performance certificate validity is set pursuant to the restrictions envisioned in Section 8 of Article 11 of the Directive 2010/31/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 19 May 2010 (for not over than 10 years), as well as in compliance with examined experience of some EU countries in implementation of the Directive. According to results of the examination of reports provided by the EU countries, the most of the cases the period of certificate validity is exactly 10 years. These countries are Germany, France, Italy, Norway, Sweden, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, etc. (around 20 countries).

Besides, the bill envisages mechanisms for attraction of funds for energy efficient measures and instruments to finance measures on increase of the level of energy performance of buildings.

The parliamentarians consider that the adoption of the bill will facilitate creation of conditions to raise energy performance of existing buildings, economize energy resources at buildings, improve the living standards of the population, etc.