gaps non-compliant shops, public buildings, cultural sites and hotels The energy saving and efficiency plan approved by the government will face fines of up to 60,000 euros for minor offenses, up to 6 million euros and up to 100 million euros for serious violations for very serious.
The sources of the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Tourism announced to Europa Press that the sanctions to be imposed will be the sanctions included in the Regulation on Thermal Installations of Buildings (RITE) stipulated in Articles 30 to 38 of Law No. 21. / 1992, 16 July, Industry, on administrative violations.
In particular, the Official State Gazette (BOE), approved yesterday by the Council of Ministers, and public buildings, commercial areas and shops, transport infrastructures (airports and train and bus stations), cultural sites and hotels use air conditioning at 27 degrees in summer and 19 degrees in winter. limitation.
Complementing RITE, this package of measures alson will force the lights to be turned off in shop windows and public buildings A precaution that they are empty after 10pm, they will have seven days to comply.
As far as all these initiatives are concerned, the application deadlines will be one week from their publication in the BOE and will be valid until 1 November 2023.
It will also close Decorative lighting of facades from 22:00Regulation of outdoor lighting will only affect buildings for public use, not ornamental buildings such as Christmas lights.
Likewise, both buildings and buildings will have to be before September 30. automatic locks on access doors to prevent them from being constantly open and, as a result, waste due to energy losses to the outside.
Likewise, posters should be placed in workplaces to explain these savings measures and to provide information about temperature and humidity levels.
Precautions also include: Mandatory buildings applying the previous procedure before 1 January 2021 are required to submit an extraordinary inspection before 31 December 2022thus, all buildings with relevant air conditioning consumption have been inspected in the last two years.
In this way, they will be able to implement emergency contract procedures in order to quickly carry out energy improvement works in public administration buildings. In addition, these contracts will be executed in less than one month from their formalization.
Hospitals, training centers, gyms and hairdressers
Industry, Trade and Tourism Minister Reyes Maroto stressed that this is a “very limited” rule and includes exceptions “necessary to provide adequate air conditioning” in hospitals, training centres, gyms, hairdressers or kitchens. restaurants.
In an interview on ‘La hora de la 1’ on TVE collected by Europa Press, Maroto wanted to reassure the public that there are always exceptions to the rule so that workers “have adequate climatic conditions for the work they need to do”.
“It is a rule that specifically stipulates exceptions where workers must carry out their activities at an adequate temperature and also to guarantee air-conditioning, for example, in certain workplaces where occupancy is at its peak,” the chairman said. The industrialist also stated that the standard agreed with the industry.