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Member States shall ensure that, when buildings are constructed, sold or rented out, an energy performance certificate is made available to the owner or by the owner to the prospective buyer or tenant, as the case might be. The validity of the certificate shall not exceed 10 years. Certification for apartments or units designed for separate use in blocks may be based: on a common certification of the whole building for blocks with a common heating system, or on the assessment of another representative apartment in the same block. Member States may exclude the categories referred to in Article 4(3) from the application of this paragraph.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-10-30 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.