The Energy Performance of Buildings (Scotland) Regulations 2025

Owners of buildings must ensure a building has a valid energy performance certificate (EPC) and property report when selling or letting out a building, and they must make these available to buyers and tenants. Owners and occupiers of public buildings must ensure EPCs are displayed to members of the public.

Requirements for developers, owners and occupiers of buildings apply from 31st October 2026, replacing requirements made under The Energy Performance of Buildings (Scotland) Regulations 2008.

The Regulations do not apply to buildings under construction or:

• temporary buildings with a planned use time of 2 years or less;
• workshops and non-residential agricultural buildings with low energy demand;
• stand-alone non-domestic properties with a floor area of less than 50m2; and
• buildings designed and constructed to be unheated or heated by a heating system which is not a fixed heating system.

Energy performance certificates must be issued by an energy assessor and contain the information listed in regulation 8, including:

• a heat retention rating, a heating system rating and an energy cost rating for domestic properties; and
• an energy performance rating, an energy use rating and a direct emissions rating for non-domestic properties.

Property reports must include the information in regulation 9, including:

• an indicator of primary energy use;
• information on measures that have the potential to improve energy performance indicators and their estimated cost; and
• the name of the energy assessor issuing the property report and the name of the accreditation scheme they are a member of.

Scottish Ministers are responsible for:

• approving an organisation to operate an energy performance of buildings accreditation scheme; and
• establishing registers for EPCs and property reports.

Keepers of registers may charge fees for entering data onto registers and for disclosing EPCs and property reports, and must disclose energy performance data when requested by Scottish Ministers or local authorities.

Local authorities are responsible for enforcing requirements in their local area.