Couple of questions?
(1) When someone sells a house in Italy do Italian
regulations require the seller to provide the buyer with
an 'Energy Performance Certificate' ?
(2) Does Italian law require you to have an 'Energy
Performance Certificate' for your holiday let?
'Energy Performance Certificate' legislation?
'Energy Performance Certificate' legislation?
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- Don Ciccio
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Not that I am aware of, but in Italy there are lots of other things that need to be obtained before a house is considered legal (and therefore officially sellable).
The most important thing is the abitabilità certificate (habitability certificate) issued by the local authority to say that the house has both planning permission (often bought retrospectively under Berlusconi's amnesty systems, and further bribery of the council, otherwise it takes years), and is considered safe and habitable.
Without this certificate, the Water companies can refuse to connect you to the water mains (unless you drop brown envelope of cash near them) and Enel can get funny about upgrading your meter from an agricultural contract to a residential one.
There are other hoops to jump through, but this is the most important.
Where we are in Trapani there are planning rules that allow only wooden doors and windows in new houses and when you replace existing ones. After 80 years of requiring flat roof, policies now require pitched/slanted roofs to allow easier run off into the ground. Oh, and you arenot allowed to lay hard surfaces - they have to be semi-porous.
DC
DC
The most important thing is the abitabilità certificate (habitability certificate) issued by the local authority to say that the house has both planning permission (often bought retrospectively under Berlusconi's amnesty systems, and further bribery of the council, otherwise it takes years), and is considered safe and habitable.
Without this certificate, the Water companies can refuse to connect you to the water mains (unless you drop brown envelope of cash near them) and Enel can get funny about upgrading your meter from an agricultural contract to a residential one.
There are other hoops to jump through, but this is the most important.
Where we are in Trapani there are planning rules that allow only wooden doors and windows in new houses and when you replace existing ones. After 80 years of requiring flat roof, policies now require pitched/slanted roofs to allow easier run off into the ground. Oh, and you arenot allowed to lay hard surfaces - they have to be semi-porous.
DC
DC
I've just been reading a magazine that gives all the info one should have in place when buying/selling as regards the Energy Certificate. In short it is a requirement now.
Probably, as with most things Italian, requirements will differ from region/province and comune and will doubtless not be requested from many of these authorities....!
Probably, as with most things Italian, requirements will differ from region/province and comune and will doubtless not be requested from many of these authorities....!