Law on the Energy Performance of Buildings (2012)

The Law determines principles for energy efficiency of buildings in Latvia. Its purpose is to promote rational use of energy resources, improving the energy performance of buildings, as well as to informing society regarding the energy consumption of buildings. It prescribes the minimum energy performance requirements of existing buildings; the minimum energy performance requirements of buildings to be designed, reconstructed or renovated; and the requirements for the certification of the energy performance of buildings and the inspection of heating systems and air conditioning systems. The requirements of this Law are not however applicable to buildings for which energy is not used for regulating indoor climatic conditions; which are cultural monuments or in which cultural monuments are located, as well as buildings in the territories of cultural monuments, if the fulfilment of the requirements of the Law endangers the preservation of those cultural monuments or reduces their cultural and historical value; which have been designed and built for religious services and other religious activities; which have been designed and built for use only during the warm seasons (for example, summer houses); and the total heating area of which is less than 50 square metres.