Slovakia: Obligation to undertake energy efficiency audits

For a large enterprise it is mandatory:

• to ensure that an energy audit is carried out at least every four years;
• to implement a certified energy management system; or
• to introduce a certified environmental management system.

The ministry issues a generally binding legal regulation which it establishes: 

• the procedure for carrying out an energy audit,
• the content of the written report on the energy audit,
• a set of data for the energy efficiency monitoring system, which is the output of the energy audit, and
• a set of data for the energy efficiency monitoring system, which is the output of the certified system.

A large enterprise that implemented a certified energy system or a certified environmental system must:

• notify the monitoring system operator within one year, and
• send a dataset about the energy efficiency monitoring system to the monitoring system manager, at least once every four years. 

Micro enterprise and SME, which ensured an energy audit co-financed from public resources or from support programs of international financial institutions is obliged:

• to keep written report on the energy audit for the term specified by co-financing organisation, and
• to provide the report on request to the monitoring system manager within 30 days.