New professional qualification in Energy Auditing
In 2016, Royal Decree 56/2016 of 12 February was approved in Spain, transposing Directive 2012/27/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 October 2012, related to energy efficiency, with regard to energy audits, accreditation of service providers and energy auditors and promotion of energy supply efficiency.
This regulation created the need in the training field to develop a new professional qualification of Energy Auditing.
Qualifications are the obligatory reference for the elaboration of Vocational Training qualifications and certificates of professionalism that accredit them, and must include all those elements of professionalism that allow accredited persons to exercise this profession, in either of the two ways.
Thus, the Construye 2020+ project, which counts as a partner with the National Institute of Qualifications -a technical support body to the General Council of Vocational Training responsible for defining, developing and updating the National Catalogue of Professional Qualifications-, has designed and developed the professional qualification of Energy Auditing, a professional framework at national level and the basis for designing a vocational training qualification or a certificate of professionalism.
⇒ Procedure and phases:
- Design and development of the Energy Audit qualification
- Royal Decree (RD) of 18 January 2022, approved by the Council of Ministers , establishing certain professional qualifications of the professional families Building and Civil Works, Electricity and Electronics, Energy and Water and Hotel and Catering and Tourism, which are included in the National Catalogue of Professional Qualifications, and partially modifying certain professional qualifications of the professional families Agriculture and Energy and Water, included in the National Catalogue of Professional Qualifications.
- Publication on 24 January 2022 in the Official State Gazette (BOE) of Royal Decree 45/2022, of 18 January , establishing certain professional qualifications of the professional families Building and Civil Works, Electricity and Electronics, Energy and Water and Hotel and Catering and Tourism, which are included in the National Catalogue of Professional Qualifications, and partially modifying certain professional qualifications of the professional families Agriculture and Energy and Water, included in the National Catalogue of Professional Qualifications.
