Friday, 11 July 2014

Poland to face fine from ECJ?

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As Reuters reports, Poland (and many other European countries) will face the fining from ECJ due to the failing to implement EU law on making buildings more energy-efficient. Poland threatens a financial penalty of € 96 720 for each day of failure in implementation of the law.

The plan of the change in the legislation due to the goals of EU has been described in details in the post : http://polish-energy-blog.blogspot.it/2014/07/new-legislation-on-energy-efficiency.html

To recap - the purpose of the EU law is to enforce the construction of more energy-efficient buildings. EU countries had to implement the Directive until 9 July 2012 which obliges them to ensure that by 2021 all new buildings are  so-called passive buildings ( buildings that are using minimum energy from the grid and are “capable” of using and dispatching all the “inner” energy from the household – more on passive houses here: http://polish-energy-blog.blogspot.it/2014/05/passive-houses-in-poland.html   ). “The European Union aims to cut Europe's annual primary energy consumption by 20 percent by 2020. Buildings account for about 40 percent of that consumption and more than a third of EU carbon-dioxide emissions”  - pointed out the EU executive, while interview by Reuters.


Spokesman of the Ministry of Infrastructure and Development, Robert Stankiewicz, said during the conversation with PAP that "Poland has already implemented and notified to the European Commission the essential provisions of the Directive having a crucial impact on the improvement of energy performance, including defining the minimum requirements for buildings in the perspective of 2021."


The main principal of newly created law will depend on the certification of the buildings that will express the energy usage of the construction. The draft exempts from this requirement houses built for their own use. The obligation to carry the certificates will not be for historic buildings, churches, and residential buildings intended for use for no longer than four months of the year. Certificates will last 10 years if no work will be performed. According to the project, the Ministry responsible for construction of buildings, will carry out the database in ICT system that will be the central registry of energy performance of buildings. It will include, among others: the energy performance certificate, as well as persons entitled to their preparation and to control heating system or air conditioning.


Plan described above  is to be  prepared by the Ministry within a maximum of two years - a requirement of the EU Directive. According to the EU law, from the beginning of 2021 all new buildings will have low power consumption, whereas before, because after 2018, the buildings occupied by public authorities or under their property will need to fulfill those requirements.



Hopefully the stage, at which research and drafting the law is at the moment in Poland, will be satisfactory to the point of repealing the fine by European Court of Justice.

 

 

 
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Picture shows visualization of the pilot project energy-efficient building on the campus of Tsinghua University (China)

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