EXPLANATION OF SEARCH OPTIONS
The Energy Efficiency Policies and Measures database can be searched according to the following eight criteria:  

• Country: The country that is implementing the policy or measure. 

• Jurisdiction: The level of government at which the policy was formulated or applies. The available choices are municipal, local, national, state/regional and supranational.

• Year: The year in which the policy was announced or developed.

• Policy Status: The current status of the policy. The user has the choice of ended, in force, planned and superseded (where the policy has been directly replaced by another). In reality, ‘superseded’ will also have ‘ended’.

• Evaluation: Information as to the outcome of the policy. This information is available only for a small number of policies.

• Key Word Search: Terms typed into this field will be searched for across both the title and the text of all database records.

• Policy Type: The particular kind of policy instrument planned or implemented. The user has the choice between education and outreach, financial, policy processes, public investment, RD&D, regulatory instruments, tradable permits and voluntary agreements.

• Policy Target: The particular sector or target of the policy instrument. The user has the choice of appliances, buildings, industry, transport, multi-sectoral and framework policy.

Searching by more than one of the eight criteria automatically assumes ‘and’ for the search – i.e. ticking one country and one policy target will only show policies that relate both to the country and the year.
By contrast, ticking two or more boxes within any of the eight criteria automatically assumes ‘or’ in the search – i.e. if two countries are ticked within the country field, the database will search for policies relating to either country, as well as policies relating to both countries.
For additional information, please contact: ee@iea.org.