The scale of the damage and the nature and challenges of any attempt at assessing it
The European Valuation Standards Board’s challenge: a methodology for assessing the loss of value to individually damaged properties and businesses in support of compensation claims in Ukrainian and international courts
Problem areas
Date of valuation
Where to draw the line in any compensation claims
Articulating war damage assessment with assessing the cost of “Building Back Better” to the European Green Deal’s building energy performance standards
The Ireland of the past: Red Book and nothing else
The financial and property crisis proved to be the catalyst for the introduction of European Valuation Standards
How IPAV supported by TEGOVA persuaded the Central Bank of Ireland to take up EVS
The hard slog of getting valuation-commissioning government departments and banks to rewrite their procedures and template valuation reports to accommodate EVS
TEGOVA’s vision of European sovereignty: standards by and for Europeans, in lock-step with EU law
For the REV and TRV qualifications: TEGOVA provides the procedural framework and inspects the Awarding Member Associations, but the rest falls to the members
The importance of EU imprimatur: Respect for TEGOVA’s qualifications flows from respect for EVS.