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"Man at B&Q" writes:
On Jan 6, 10:26*am, Another Dave wrote:
On 04/01/2011 12:34, David J wrote:

As many know, HIP was suspended (not abolished) on 21st May 2010. But
what was left behind, courtesy of the EU, is the Energy Performance
Certificate (EPC) which is compulsory at the sale or new rental of all
properties in the UK.

As far as I know, this has nothing to do with the EU. The EU requires
that member states monitor the energy efficiency of their housing stock
but a random survey of a sample of properties would suffice for this.
The EPC was dreamt up by UK government/civil service.
It's known as "gold plating" and happens with a lot of EU regs as they
are passed into UK law. Other countries seem to do the bare minimum to
comply, or just ignore them completely. Must be something to do with
the British sense of "justice" and "fair play", LOL!

The other thing is that in many other EU countries, even if they had
a similar piece of legislation, absolutely no one would take any notice
of it.

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