Description of current Energy Performance Certificates (EPCs) related policy framework in implementing countries

The EPDB is the most important policy directive at the EU level that defines the directive of the energy performance of buildings in the EU-Member States. The EPBD 2018/844/EU Article 2e introduces the EPCs (Energy Performance Certificate of buildings and units) as an instrument to provide building energy performance information. Over the past years, EPCs have developed increasingly and still play an important role in the political context of decarbonisation of the building stock. This report presents an overview of the current policy framework of EPCs, and how some aspects of the EPBD have been implemented in the implementing countries Austria (focus Styria), Belgium (focus Flanders), Germany, Greece, Finland and Spain. To develop the present report, ePANACEA project partners were invited to respond to a questionnaire (with about 60 questions) that covered the following topic areas related to the EPCs and buildings related topics: environment, recommendations, end-user perception, technology uptake, energy assessment and rating system. By reviewing the current state, this report prepares the ground for future project activities, which are: the development of possible pathways how the policy framework could evolve in the future and the analysis and estimation of future replication potential of EPC results and the corresponding impact. That will be included in the project report “Pathways of EPC related policy framework”. Besides the description of the current state, this report also provides insights about possible future perspectives according to current national political discussions and implementing partner’s expertise. Complementary to this report, other reports also provide information about the current state: Report on the use of innovative certification schemes and their implementation Guidelines on how national EPC schemes and SRI could be linked Report on the use of (energy) data within EPC schemes Report on the current status of national plans, schemes and initiatives on building renovation passports 1st REBs conclusions report This report is structured as followed: chapter 1 presents a short introduction about the country-specific EPC framework, chapter 2 presents the current state of each topic area and in each country and chapter 3 presents the future perspectives of each area. Finally, chapter 4 presents the main conclusions of both topics