Introduction
Following the Energy performance of buildings directive, EU member states have had to submit long-term renovation strategies (LTRS) to the European Commission.
This process has great importance because of the European Commission can use long-term renovation strategies implementation for each state to help infer what the member states cannot handle separately and therefore needs to be in the new EU legislation.
Only 19 of the EU member-states have so far drafted strategies: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Latvia, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Romania, Slovakia, Spain and Sweden.