Publication - Impact assessment

Energy Performance of Buildings (Scotland) Regulations 2025: Fairer Scotland Duty assessment

Published: 10 October 2025
Directorate: Energy and Climate Change Directorate
Topic: Energy, Environment and climate change, Housing, +1 more … Work and skills
ISBN: 9781806432288

Fairer Scotland Duty Assessment (FSDA) produced as part of our intention to lay updated Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) regulations in October 2025. This FSDA has considered the evidence to understand any socio-economic outcomes from the reform of EPCs.

Supporting documents

Footnotes

1 Letter: Reform of domestic EPC rating metrics to Patrick Harvie MSP - Climate Change Committee

2 A Review of Domestic and Non-Domestic Energy Performance Certificates in Scotland: Research report for the Scottish Government, Heat, Energy Efficiency and Consumers Unit - Final Report (www.gov.scot)

3 Directive 2010/31/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 19 May 2010 on the energy performance of buildings (recast) (legislation.gov.uk)

4 The Housing (Scotland) Act 2006 (Prescribed Documents) Regulations 2008

5 Fuel Poverty (Targets, Definition and Strategy) (Scotland) Act 2019 - which requires the Scottish Ministers to prepare a Fuel Poverty Strategy that must set out their approach to identifying residential buildings where improvements would be required to achieve, by 2030, an energy performance certificate band C or higher.

6 Scottish House Condition Survey: 2023 Key Findings - gov.scot

7 Tackling Fuel Poverty in Scotland: Periodic Report 2021 - 2024

8 Letter: Reform of domestic EPC rating metrics to Patrick Harvie MSP - Climate Change Committee

9 A Review of Domestic and Non-Domestic Energy Performance Certificates in Scotland: Research report for the Scottish Government, Heat, Energy Efficiency and Consumers Unit - Final Report

10 Letter to Patrick Harvie MSP Reform of domestic EPC rating metrics to support delivery of Net Zero

11 Reform of the Energy Performance Certificate: letter to Minister - gov.scot

12 Energy Performance Certificate reform – lodgement fees and penalty charges: technical consultation - gov.scot

13 Operational delivery of EPCs in Europe | ClimateXChange

14 Operational delivery of EPCs in Europe | ClimateXChange

15 SHS Data Explorer

16 Poverty and Income Inequality in Scotland 2021-24