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Description (English)
Administrative fine of up to five thousand euros in the remaining cases of Section 108(1). These include: failing to ensure the minimum share of climate-neutral fuels contrary to Section 43(1); failing to ensure the biomass requirements contrary to Section 45(1); installing direct electric heating contrary to Section 46, sentence 1; failing to equip a non-residential building, or to do so correctly or in time, contrary to Section 56(1); failing to have a heat pump checked in operation, or in time, contrary to Section 60a(1), sentence 1; failing to have a heating system checked, or in time, contrary to Section 60b(1); failing to balance a heating system hydronically, or in time, contrary to Section 60c(1); failing to issue a contractor declaration properly contrary to Section 96(1); and contravening an enforceable order under Section 99(6), sentence 1. From 1 January 2027 a further offence is added: failure to ensure, contrary to Section 40(1), first sentence, that the total energy performance of an existing non-residential building does not exceed a value stated there (Section 108(1), point 4); the remaining points are renumbered accordingly.
Description (German)
Geldbuße bis zu fünftausend Euro in den übrigen Fällen des § 108 Absatz 1. Dazu gehören unter anderem: entgegen § 43 Absatz 1 den Mindestanteil klimaneutraler Brennstoffe nicht sicherzustellen, entgegen § 45 Absatz 1 die Anforderungen an Biomassenutzung nicht sicherzustellen, entgegen § 46 Satz 1 eine Stromdirektheizung einzubauen, entgegen § 56 Absatz 1 ein Nichtwohngebäude nicht, nicht richtig oder nicht rechtzeitig auszurüsten, entgegen § 60a Absatz 1 Satz 1 eine Wärmepumpe nicht oder nicht rechtzeitig einer Betriebsprüfung zu unterziehen, entgegen § 60b Absatz 1 eine Heizungsanlage nicht oder nicht rechtzeitig einer Heizungsprüfung zu unterziehen, entgegen § 60c Absatz 1 ein Heizungssystem nicht oder nicht rechtzeitig hydraulisch abzugleichen, entgegen § 96 Absatz 1 eine Unternehmererklärung nicht ordnungsgemäß abzugeben und einer vollziehbaren Anordnung nach § 99 Absatz 6 Satz 1 zuwiderzuhandeln. Ab dem 1. Januar 2027 kommt ein Tatbestand hinzu: Wer entgegen § 40 Absatz 1 Satz 1 nicht dafür sorgt, dass die Gesamtenergieeffizienz eines bestehenden Nichtwohngebäudes einen dort genannten Wert nicht überschreitet, handelt ordnungswidrig (§ 108 Absatz 1 Nummer 4); die übrigen Nummern verschieben sich entsprechend.
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Rule set
Regulation-wide (no rule set)
Whoever constructs a building
Owners of existing residential and non-residential buildings heated to at least 19 degrees Celsius for at least four months a year
Existing buildings where external building elements are renewed, replaced or installed for the first time
Owners of existing buildings or building networks replacing the heating system
Existing buildings with a gas, heating oil or LPG heating system newly installed after 29 July 2026
Non-residential buildings with a system rated output above 70 kilowatts
Operators of heating, cooling and ventilation systems and hot water supply systems
Heat pumps in buildings with at least six dwellings or self-contained units, commissioned after 31 December 2023, without remote monitoring and without a maintenance contract
Water-based heating systems in buildings with at least six dwellings or self-contained units
Water-based heating systems after installation of a heating system in buildings with at least six dwellings
Operators of air conditioning systems and combined air conditioning and ventilation systems with more than 12 and up to 70 kilowatts of cooling output
Operators of air conditioning, combined air conditioning and ventilation and ventilation systems above 70 kilowatts
Developers and owners on construction, alteration, sale and letting
Sellers, landlords, lessors, financial lessors and estate agents
Developers and owners of buildings to be constructed and of altered buildings
Companies carrying out works on or in existing buildings in the course of business
Inspecting persons
Building owners holding a contractor declaration
Buildings where distribution equipment, air conditioning systems, ventilation systems or pipes are installed or replaced
Buildings to be constructed, except buildings serving national and alliance defence
New non-residential buildings with more than 250 square metres of useful floor area
Existing non-residential buildings above 500 square metres of useful floor area undergoing alterations of external building elements
Existing public non-residential buildings above 2 000 square metres of useful floor area
Existing public non-residential buildings above 750 square metres of useful floor area
New residential buildings and new roofed car parks
Existing public non-residential buildings above 250 square metres of useful floor area
Owners of existing non-residential buildings built before 1996 without biomass, heat pump or district heating
Owners of existing non-residential buildings
New buildings above 1 000 square metres of useful floor area
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