Energy Efficiency and Cogeneration (Amendment) Regulations,

L.N. 133 of 2020

REGULATOR FOR ENERGY AND WATER SERVICES ACT

(CAP. 545)

BUILDING REGULATION ACT

(CAP. 513)

Energy Efficiency and Cogeneration (Amendment) Regulations,

IN EXERCISE of the powers conferred by article 37(1) of the

Regulator for Energy and Water Services Act and article 6(1) and (2)

of the Building Regulation Act, the Minister responsible for the

Regulator for Energy and Water Services, and the Minister for

Transport, Infrastructure and Capital Projects with concurrence of the

Minister for Foreign and European Affairs, has made the following

regulations:-

The title of these regulations is the Energy Efficiency and

Cogeneration (Amendment) Regulations, 2020, transposing Directve

(EU) 2018/844 of the European Parliament and of the Council of

Europe of 30th May 2018 amending Directive 2010/31/EU on the

performance of buildings and Directive 2012/27/EU on energy

efficiency, and these regulations shall be read and construed as one

with the Energy Efficiency and Cogeneration Regulations, hereinafter

referred to as "the principal regulations".

Sub-regulation (2) of regulation 4 of the principal

regulations shall be substituted by the following

"(2) A first version of the long-term strategy for

mobilising investment in the renovation of the national stock of

residential and commercial buildings, both public and private,

shall be published by 30 April 2014. An updated version of the

first version of this strategy shall be published by the Building

Regulation Board every three years, which are to be reckoned as

from the date of the publication of such first version. The

updated versions are also to be submitted by the Building

Regulation Board to the Minister for transmission to the

Commission as part of the National Energy Efficiency Action

Plans.".

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