Hungary

Act No. LVII concerning energy efficiency

Legislative

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This act requires the government to set an energy efficiency target for 2020, and to create a National Energy Efficiency Action Plan and a National Building Energy Strategy. It also requires the Hungarian Energy and Utility Regulatory Authority to collect data on energy efficiency, record and publish energy efficiency savings, maintain a list of energy auditors, maintain an energy efficiency website, carry out assessments of energy supply sources, classify new energy production facilities based on their efficiency, approve a cost-benefit analysis, and keep a record of costs and expenditures, and outlines minimum energy efficiency standards for government buildings: at least 3% of the total area is subject to energy efficiency renovations annually.

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