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Directive 2012/27/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 October 2012 on energy efficiency, amending Directives 2009/125/EC and 2010/30/EU and repealing Directives 2004/8/EC and 2006/32/EC (Text with EEA relevance)
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Member States shall by 5 December 2013 notify the Commission of their proposed detailed methodology for operation of the energy efficiency obligation schemes and for the purposes of Article 7(9) and Article 20(6). Except in the case of taxes, such notification shall include details of:
obligated, participating or entrusted parties, or implementing public authorities;
target sectors;
the level of the energy saving target or expected savings to be achieved over the whole and intermediate periods;
the duration of the obligation period and intermediate periods;
eligible measure categories;
calculation methodology, including how additionality and materiality are to be determined and which methodologies and benchmarks are used for engineering estimates;
lifetimes of measures;
approach taken to address climatic variations within the Member State;
quality standards;
monitoring and verification protocols and how the independence of these from the obligated, participating or entrusted parties is ensured;
audit protocols; and
how the need to fulfil the requirement in the second subparagraph of Article 7(1) is taken into account.
In the case of taxes, the notification shall include details of:
target sectors and segment of taxpayers;
implementing public authority;
expected savings to be achieved;
duration of the taxation measure and intermediate periods; and
calculation methodology, including which price elasticities are used.
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