Clarifications concerning the application of the provisions on incentives under the New Building Regulation

It works tirelessly to implement the country’s commitments regarding adapting buildings to modern requirements, applying the provisions on incentives under the New Building Regulation ( ) on energy saving, environmental protection, improving public space and strengthening climate neutrality. In this context, the Ministry of Environment and Energy has set up an unpaid Working Group to review NOK’s incentives for: a. Analysis of the effectiveness of the existing criteria regarding effectiveness in their implementation, b. Review of the established conditions for the application of the criteria, c. Proposal for additional new criteria or replacement of existing criteria. The Working Group, which has a key role to the political leadership and in any case not decisive, is expected to include in its examination and the evidence to emerge from upcoming decisions of the plenary of the Council of State on provisions of the NOK. The representatives of bodies involved in it as members should express the citizens they represent by contributing to the public debate and avoid transferring to the public any personal crises they may make in the context of their participation as actors. It is noted that the Ministry of Environment and Energy, pending the Supreme Court crisis: It has submitted detailed memos on the feasibility of these provisions and on energy and environmental integration into the structured environment of the buildings provided for by NOK, while having communicated the international practices and new data prevailing in the rules of urban science and practice. It has no direct intention, before the decision is taken, of taking a relevant legislative initiative. In this context it is clarified that the provisions of the NOK continue to apply as they apply. It should be noted that suspensions of building permits – in addition to cases of suspension of building work on a particular property under a judicial decision or in the right of 52 A of ID 18/89 – apply only to areas for which a relevant provision of law or decision of the Minister of Environment and Energy is in place. We inform the citizens concerned that any other decision, coming, for example, from Local Government, has no institutional power. The elected representatives of local communities must be useful helpers of the State and the interests of their fellow citizens. They must refrain from jeopardising and making arbitrary decisions which ultimately affect the inalienable constitutional right of ownership.