The consultation sets out the increases to the EPC lodgement fee which we think will be needed to meet the cost of developing and maintaining the new technical and operational infrastructure to underpin the revised Regulations, with these functions to be exercised by the Scottish Ministers: • A new EPC Register (to link into a new UK Government cloud calculation-based data input and processing infrastructure that meets latest digital standards); • A new Calculation Methodology (to replace the soon-to-be life-expired Standard Assessment Procedure (SAP) with the new UK Home Energy Model for assessors to calculate EPCs under the new Rating System); and 1 https://www.gov.scot/isbn/9781836913252 2 https://www.gov.scot/isbn/9781836913269 Scottish Ministers, special advisers and the Permanent Secretary are covered by the terms of the Lobbying (Scotland) Act 2016.