The Saeima has adopted and the President promulgated the following laws: the law of energy performance of buildings chapter I General provisions article 1. The law is applied in the following terms: 1) boiler-plant that produced by burning fuel, energy and pass it to the coolant, which provides the building with heat;
2) energy audits-building survey and data analysis procedure that is performed to determine the flow of energy in the building and assess energy saving opportunities;
3) building-construction or shipbuilding (shipbuilding part designed to be used independently from the rest of the building) with the outer containment structures, in which energy is used indoor microclimate;
building energy efficiency-4) relative to the amount of energy that characterize specific buildings for heating, cooling, ventilation, lighting and hot water requires energy consumption;
5) dissemination-building document, containing the building's energy efficiency;
6) buildings energosertifikācij-the process of building energy efficiency and building the dissemination shall be issued;
the new building of the new 7)-according to the construction plan of the building under construction. 2. article. (1) of the Act is to promote the rational use of energy and to improve energy efficiency in buildings.
(2) the law says State and local government bodies competence in the field of energy performance of buildings, as well as building the legal and organisational energosertifikācij. 3. article. This law applies to buildings and new construction, except building: 1) which are cultural monuments or cultural monuments are located, if law enforcement threatens the conservation of these cultural monuments or heritage value it lowers;
2) used for worship and other religious activities;
3) which is not provided for or is not installed in the heating system;
4) whose total heated area of less than 50 square meters. Chapter II national and local government bodies ' competence in the field of energy performance of buildings 4. (1) the energy performance of buildings of the general monitoring and coordination of the country by the Ministry of economy.
(2) the Ministry of economy in the development of the energy performance of buildings policy.
(3) the national agency "construction, energy and housing State Agency" supports the implementation of the policy of the energy performance of buildings, as well as implement measures to promote heating boilers and air conditioning equipment and efficiency. 5. article. (1) a State or local government laws and regulations and in accordance with the procedure laid down in volume can provide assistance for carrying out energy audits, as well as building renovation or reconstruction in accordance with the opinion of energy audits, subject to efficient investment payback principle, sustainability, maximum energy saving and environmentally friendly technologies.
(2) a State or local government help residential energy efficiency measures provided in the law "on housing assistance issues" in the cases and in the procedure. Chapter III energy efficiency requirements for buildings in the article 6. The energy performance of buildings shall be determined taking into account: 1 the building design of the thermal conduction of delimiting);
2) heating system;
3) hot water supply;
4) air conditioning systems;
5) ventilation;
6) built-in lighting system;
7) positions, 8) as well as external climatic conditions and internal microclimate. 7. article. The design of the building, with a total area of more than 1000 square meters, take into account the technical, environmental and economic considerations as well as the local regulations and other applicable laws and regulations, to assess the possibility as an alternative to these buildings use systems using renewable energy sources, such as decentralised energy supply systems, cogeneration systems, local heating and cooling system or heat pump. 8. article. Compensated buildings with a total area of more than 1000 square meters and a total reconstruction cost exceeds 25 percent of the building cadastre value and that reconstruction work affect 25 percent of būvapjom of such buildings as well as for new construction energy efficiency minimum requirements determined by the Cabinet of Ministers. Chapter IV building energosertifikācij General requirements of article 9. (1) in assessing the energy performance of buildings, the buildings are classified as follows: 1) for different types of viendzīvokļ building;
2) apartment building;
3) Office building;
4) education buildings;
5) outpatient hospital treatment or buildings;
6) hotel and restaurant buildings;
7) sports buildings;
8) buildings are provided to wholesale or retail services;
9) other types of buildings, which consume energy.
(2) calculation of the energy performance of buildings is determined by the Cabinet of Ministers. 10. article. (1) the dissemination of the building shall be issued energoauditor.
(2) the procedures to be carried out in the building of the energosertifikācij, as well as the dissemination of the building type, sample content, and registration procedures shall be determined by the Cabinet of Ministers.
(3) building the dissemination includes indicators for which consumers can compare and assess the energy efficiency of the building. The certificate shall be accompanied by recommendations, which assesses the energy efficiency improvement measure of profitability. 11. article. (1) energy efficiency indicators and new buildings construction compensated indicates the construction regulations.
(2) New buildings and compensated according to project energy efficiency calculations contained in the designer manages the dissemination of temporary buildings. 12. article. (1) buildings or temporary dissemination dissemination need the buildings sale, renting out or leasing out.

(2) buildings, which put into up to 31 December 2008, the first part of this article, the requirements do not apply if agreed by the parties. 13. article. Building the dissemination of validity is 10 years, building a temporary dissemination of validity is two years. 14. article. If the building, with a total area of more than 1000 square meters, is located in State or local government authority or a public service provider, the dissemination of this building placed its visitors in a prominent position. 15. article. The order in which the economy ministry oversees the national agency energosertifikācij and "building, energy and housing State Agency collects, updates and uses information on the dissemination of buildings issued, determined by the Cabinet of Ministers. Chapter v of the boiler, central heating system and air conditioning system check article 16. Making the building energosertifikācij, energoauditor addition to evaluate the efficiency and capacity of samērojamīb boilers with a rated power of more than 20 kW, and air conditioning systems, of a nominal capacity of more than 12 kilowatts. Article 17. If the building's boiler nominal capacity is greater than 20 kilowatt or heating system is older than 15 years, energoauditor will evaluate the boiler with the heating system, give an opinion on the efficiency of the boiler and gives recommendations for the replacement or other potential the building's heating system and on alternative solutions to reduce energy consumption and carbon dioxide emissions. 18. article. Energy efficiency requirements for energy-supply merchant licensed possession of existing, centralised heating systems and their compliance with the testing procedures established by the Cabinet of Ministers. 19. article. The verification arrangements boilers with a rated power of more than 20 kW, and air conditioning systems, of a nominal capacity of more than 12 kilowatt, determined by the Cabinet of Ministers. Chapter VI Energoauditor in article 20. (1) the right to carry out an energy audit is a natural person, which received its competence in the field of energy performance of buildings certificate.
(2) the requirements for sliding and Energoauditor their responsibility, as well as certification and surveillance procedure determined by the Cabinet of Ministers. 21. article. Energoauditor the main duties, doing an energy audit are the following: 1) followed up the building and evaluate these buildings, as well as its boiler and air kondici-nition systems energy efficiency;
2) collect and analyze data about the buildings delimiting the structure formed by the heating system, hot water supply, air-conditioning, ventilation, integrated lighting system, the location of the building, external climatic conditions and internal microclimate;
3) to assess the amount of energy supplied and the energy efficiency of the building to determine its compliance with the requirements referred to in the laws of energy efficiency;
4) to prepare an opinion on the replacement of boilers or other potential the building's heating system and on alternative solutions if the nominal boiler capacity greater than 20 kilowatt or heating system is older than 15 years;
5) to prepare an opinion on the building identified technical weaknesses and make suggestions on energy conservation. 22. article. Energoauditor, assessing the buildings, as well as boiler and air conditioning energy efficiency, their professional activities is independent and respects the principles of professional ethics. 1. Transitional provisions article 12 of this law shall enter into force on 1 January 2009. 2. the Cabinet of Ministers until July 1, 2008 for the issue of this law article 8, article 9, second paragraph, in the second paragraph of article 10, 15, 18, 19 and 20 article in the article referred to in the second subparagraph. 3. Article 8 of this law and article 11 of part two of the requirements do not apply to service of nododamaj buildings, construction of which accepted the construction of regulatory laws in the order until 31 December 2008, as well as to buildings whose construction until 31 December 2008 filed in reconciliation. Informative reference to European Union directive included provisions in the law arising from the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 2002 Directive 2002/91/EC on energy performance of buildings. The Parliament adopted the law of 13 March 2008. In place of the President of the parliamentary President G. Lot in Riga, 2008. on 2 April,