This page provides links to the full text of key pieces of energy environmental legislation that may affect your business in Scotland. The websites hosting the legislation may list amendments separately.
Energy legislation for Scotland 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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Replaces the six schedules up to 2004/406 that set out functional standards for buildings. Requires building owners to inspect air conditioning systems regularly and give advice to building occupants on reducing their energy consumption.
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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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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 Ecodesign for Energy-Using Products Regulations 2007
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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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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 sets out the requirements for the certificate. Also requires public buildings to clearly display an energy performance certificate within the building.
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Requires environmental impact assessments of the effects of certain public and private projects to be carried out as part of town and country planning, and road and drainage works.
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Amends 1999/1 to require planning authorities to carry out environmental assessments when revising conditions for existing minerals planning permission. Includes National Parks in the definition of 'sensitive areas'.
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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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Amends 245/2009 by introducing new definitions and technical information, including efficacy values for fluorescent lamps.
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Establishes eco-design requirements for marketing non-directional household lamps including those marketed for non-household use.
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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.
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From the start of financial year 2010-2011, reduces on a sliding scale (from 100% to 2.5%) the amount payable as non-domestic rates for business premises in Scotland used solely for the generation of renewable heat or power (or both).
