Information about Smart Auditing
A smart audit is a ‘risk based’ audit based on pre-defined set of criteria as shown in the table below.
- Smart audits are designed to find potentially defective Energy Certificates.
- Smart audit selection will focus on the data items, and associated evidence, relevant to the smart rule(s) that the lodgement has triggered.
- If a smart audit fails for a reason other than the smart audit rule that it triggered then, where possible, the subsequent follow on audit will be based on the same criteria that caused the fail.
- If an Energy Certificate is called for a smart audit and triggered multiple smart audit rules, then it will be audited against them all but only counted as one smart audit.
- Should a member pass a smart audit, but, in a subsequent month, trigger the same smart audit rule, they will not need to be audited as they have already demonstrated their competence on the issue.
Current NDEA Smart Rules (v1)
| Rule Number | Rule |
| 1 | Any occurence of 2 or more NDEA EPC lodgements for the same UPRN within a 3 calendar month period made by assessors from the same scheme. |
| 2 | More than 30 NDEA EPC lodgements in a calendar month. |
Current DEC Smart Rules (v1)
| Rule Number | Rule |
| 1 | More than 50 DEC lodgements in a calendar month |
Current ACEA Smart Rules (v1)
| Rule Number | Rule |
| 1 | Any occurence of 2 or more ACEA lodgements for the same UPRN within a 3 calendar month period made by assessors from the same scheme. |
| 2 | More than 30 ACEA lodgements in a claendar month |