{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2012-244/annex-I/division-4/division-4.3/division-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2012-244/annex-I/division-4/division-4.3/division-2.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2012/244",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) No 244/2012 of 16 January 2012 supplementing Directive 2010/31/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council on the energy performance of buildings by establishing a comparative methodology framework for calculating cost-optimal levels of minimum energy performance requirements for buildings and building elements (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2012-244",
  "path": "annex/I/division/4/division/4.3/division/2",
  "kind": "division",
  "number": "(2)",
  "heading": "Global costs for buildings and building elements shall be calculated by summing the different types of costs and applying to these the discount rate by means of a discount factor so as to express them in terms of value in the starting year, plus the discounted residual value as follows:",
  "text": "C g τ = C I + Σ j Σ i =1 τ C a,i j × R d i – V f,τ j where:\nτ means the calculation period\nCg(τ) means global cost (referred to starting year τ 0) over the calculation period\nCI means initial investment costs for measure or set of measures j\nCa,I (j) means annual cost during year i for measure or set of measures j\nVf,τ (j) means residual value of measure or set of measures j at the end of the calculation period (discounted to the starting year τ 0).\nRd (i) means discount factor for year i based on discount rate r to be calculated\nas:\nR d p = l l + r /100 p where p means the number of years from the starting period and r means the real discount rate.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2012/244/annex/I/division/4/division/4.3/division/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:49:31.287569+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}