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Without prejudice to paragraph 11, the criteria for the policy measures taken pursuant to the second subparagraph of paragraph 9 and Article 20(6) shall be as follows: the policy measures provide for at least two intermediate periods by 31 December 2020 and lead to the achievement of the level of ambition set out in paragraph 1; the responsibility of each entrusted party, participating party or implementing public authority, whichever is relevant, is defined; the energy savings that are to be achieved are determined in a transparent manner; the amount of energy savings required or to be achieved by the policy measure are expressed in either final or primary energy consumption, using the conversion factors set out in Annex IV; energy savings are calculated using the methods and principles provided in points (1) and (2) of Annex V; energy savings are calculated using the methods and principles provided in point 3 of Annex V; an annual report of the energy savings achieved is provided by participating parties unless not feasible and made publicly available; monitoring of the results is ensured and appropriate measures are envisaged if the progress is not satisfactory; a control system is put in place that also includes independent verification of a statistically significant proportion of the energy efficiency improvement measures; and data on the annual trend of energy savings are published annually.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-10-28 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.