The Living Environment Activities Decree (Bal) and the Living Environment Buildings Decree (Bbl) require

companies and institutions to implement all energy-saving measures with a payback period of five

years or less. The energy saving obligation applies to locations of companies and

institutions operating per year from 50,000 kWh of electricity or 25,000 m3 of natural gas (equivalent)

use.

From 1 January 2023, the OD NHN will be responsible for monitoring and enforcing this

energy saving obligation at companies and institutions. In order to be able to give substance to this, the

Environmental Service intends to enter into a framework agreement with three entrepreneurs for the

carrying out the checks on the basis of the Approved Lists of Energy Saving Measures (hereinafter:

EML controls).

We have approximately 1300 EML checks to outsource per year. This results in further checks and

reviews of savings plans.