Exactly, you just have to briefly consider who gets this exemption application. Some clerk at the office. He then starts by researching what ERR actually means. After asking 4 employees and his boss, consulting Google and the regulatory texts, he finds out that the Energy Saving Ordinance states that ERR is mandatory and initially rejects the application.
It’s like in some offices: There is some dusty folder somewhere containing core working hours from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Then the situation arises that someone has to leave at 2 p.m. There is type A, who just informs his colleague briefly that he’s leaving now and that’s that. Then there is type B, who digs out the folder, asks 7 colleagues whether it’s allowed to leave earlier and if there is a deregistration form, then asks the secretariat, and tries to catch the boss to debate it with him – who in the end is just annoyed and stressed and snaps at type B, “Core working hours end at 3 p.m., and today I need them until 6!”…