This page provides links to the full text of key pieces of energy environmental legislation that may affect your business in Northern Ireland. The websites hosting the legislation may list amendments separately.
Energy legislation for Northern Ireland requires suppliers of energy-using products to provide information on their energy consumption and for dealers to display details with the products. Regulations on the EU Eco-Label Award Scheme and Ecodesign concept are also included.
If you are setting up an environmental management system (EMS) for your business, you can use this list to start compiling your legal register. Your legal adviser or environmental consultant will be able to tell you if other environmental legislation applies to your specific business.
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Introduces a scheme for 100% first-year allowances to encourage businesses to invest in energy-saving plant and machinery.
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Specifies that for an installation or site to be eligible for inclusion in a climate change agreement, it must be likely that at least 90% of the energy supplied to it will be used within the site.
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Changes the definition of ‘Energy-Intensive installations’, with exceptions, to include all operations and activities on the same site.
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Establishes for the UK a new energy efficiency scheme designed to reduce carbon emissions through improving energy efficiency in public and private sector organisations that consume large amounts of electricity, gas and other fuels.
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Amends 2010/768 by extending phase one of the trading scheme to 1 April 2014. Reduces the second and sixth phases from seven to six years. The second phase will start on 1 April 2013. Each phase will overlap the previous phase by one year instead of two.
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Puts in place a framework for minimum energy efficiency standards for energy-using products. Adds civil sanctions as an enforcement mechanism. Introduces powers to require manufacturers to pay for cost of testing products if shown that they don't comply.
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Guidance on Eco-design for Energy-using Products Regulations
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Allows the Department of Economic Development to promote efficient energy use in industry, and the Department of the Environment to promote efficient energy use in residential accommodation and by public bodies.
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Specifies energy efficiency standards (electricity consumption) for new household electric refrigerators freezers and their combinations.
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Applies to energy-related products which have a significant impact on energy consumption. Requires information to be provided to customers. Includes powers of enforcement to improve the environmental performance of products.
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Requires dishwasher suppliers to provide labels showing energy consumption, and dealers to display this information to potential buyers. There are also requirements for mail order and catalogue sales.
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Expands energy efficiency ratings for certain appliances and requires household refrigerator and freezer suppliers to provide energy consumption information to potential buyers.
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Requires refrigerators and freezer suppliers to provide labels showing energy consumption, and dealers to display this information to potential buyers. There are also requirements for mail order and catalogue sales.
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Requires suppliers of household washing machines to provide energy consumption information on their products, and dealers to display this information to potential buyers.
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Updates 1996/600 to exclude washing machines with no internal water heating capacity and defines 'enforcement action'.
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Requires building owners to make an energy performance certificate available for buyers or tenants and to inspect air conditioning systems regularly. Also requires public buildings to have a display energy certificate on show within the building.
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Amends 2008/170 to change the enforcing authority from the Department of Finance and Personnel(DFP) to District Councils.
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Sets out a scheme to award an ‘eco-label’ to manufacturers who want to inform consumers about what they are doing to reduce the environmental impact of their products.
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Lists requirements for marketing fluorescent lamps, high intensity discharge lamps, ballasts and luminaires. Also includes benchmarks for office lighting and public street lighting products.
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EU Regulation on Eco-design requirements for lamps 347/2010 (Adobe PDF - 892KB)
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Lists requirements for marketing fluorescent lamps, high intensity discharge lamps, ballasts and luminaires. Also includes benchmarks for office lighting and public street lighting products.
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Requires tyre suppliers to ensure that the tyres they deliver to distributors and end users are labelled with their fuel efficiency and noise levels from 1 November 2012.
