New Royal Decree 390/2021 Basic procedure for energy efficiency certification of buildings

Royal Decree 390/2021

It's been a while since we wrote about celebrities energy certificates for homes and other types of properties. Mainly, because the changes are more at the level Software updates to make the reports, and, less, in relevant regulations.

The reports of the Certificate of Efficiency Energetic collect – mainly – the information most important information about the energy situation of a property and its “performance”. So we dealt with a topic important in terms of energy efficiency.

The Council of Ministers of Spain, at the proposal of the Ministry of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda (Mitma) and Ministry for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge (Miteco) has approved the new Royal Decree 390/2021 on the basic procedure for the certification of the energy efficiency of the buildings .

But... What regulations are affected by this Royal Decree?

• Repeals the famous Royal Decree 235/2013 , of April 5, which approves the basic procedure for the certification of the energy efficiency of the buildings (Remember that this was modified by the Real Decree 564/2017).
• Modifies art. sole.31 of the Royal Decree 178/202 1, of March 23.
• Modifies arts. 5.1, 7.b), 8.1.b) and annex I of Royal Decree 56/2016 , of 12 February.
• Modifies IT 1.2.4.1.2.1 of Regulations approved by Royal Decree 1027/2007 , of July 20.
• Partially transposes Directive (EU) 2018/844 , of May 30.

If you look closely, whenever there have been changes in the energy certificate legislation, it is due to the need to comply with European regulations. Not for creating a better system and that really adds value, both to the technicians and to the consumers. But this is another debate.

And now, with the new Royal Decree 390/2021 … Do I have to make the reports of another way? Well, being able to tell you no. But you must have take into account the main changes that affect the building certification:

1. Extension of the obligation before the mandatory certification

• Obligation to make a report for those constructions with a greater total usable area to 500 m2 and intended for administrative use, commercial, sanitary, public residential, educational, cultural, recreational, hospitality or sports.
• Mandatory reporting in occupied buildings by a public administration with an area total useful area of more than 250 m2 , regardless of the frequency and influx of public in it.
• Obligation to make a report on those properties that must pass the Technical Inspection of the Building (ITE) and energy renovations in the coming years (This is already true in many Autonomous Communities if you wanted to access the subsidies).

*You have to check exactly Article 8 (Page 10) that there is exceptions and so on.

2. Improvement of procedures and update

• Finally! The new Royal Decree regulates the obligation to make, at least, one visit in person at the property with a maximum advance notice of three months before the issuance of the certificate.

This visit will allow data collection, tests and necessary verifications for the correct execution of the energy efficiency certificate

3. Deadline for submitting the certificate to the competent body.

• Now, the energy efficiency certificate of the building, together with the energy evaluation report of the building in electronic format (XML ) must be submitted, within a month from the date of emission (If the autonomous community does not establish another term).

By the way. The Technical Code has a tool for XML format . This application makes it easy to use of energy assessment reports in electronic format, for checking, viewing and edition that we can see from HERE.

The Royal Decree speaks in its article 7 of «Registration Centralized Administrative”. We'll see what happens with the theme of the registry by autonomous community when we talk about the IEE Building Assessment Reports (Remember that, in some communities, as a possibility, have their own registry and not the centralized one)

4. Validity of the Certificate of Energy Efficiency

• The energy efficiency certificate will have a maximum validity of ten years, except when the qualification energy is G, whose maximum validity will be five years.

Keep in mind that this new regulation enters into force on 06/03/2021 so the presentation of; certificate of energy efficiency of the building + report of energy assessment of the building should already be in format XML.

You can access the Royal Decree 390/2021 published in the BOE from HERE to download it in PDF.

By the way, there is a new plugin – plugin for the CE3X program. In this case, it focuses on improving the glass of windows that can be used for buildings of any use. For the rehabilitation of windows by means of application of 3M films…. It can be downloaded from Efinova HERE.