#VLOL2524331AFrance Updates Qualification Rules for Energy Renovation Contractors
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This order changes the qualification rules that contractors must meet for customers to access energy transition tax credits and zero-interest renovation loans for older homes. It gives qualification bodies more flexibility in some work categories, shifts decision-making toward panels that include building or renewable energy experts, and makes clear that qualifications are assessed at each company establishment. Contractors will also need to provide claims-history information from insurers when seeking or renewing a quality label.
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Key Changes
- Allows exemptions from some general and specific qualification requirements for listed energy renovation work categories under conditions set in a new annex.
- Requires qualification decisions to involve a decision-making body that includes building or renewable energy experts.
- Clarifies that qualifications are granted and checked at the level of each company establishment, and adds a requirement to review the company’s insurance claims history.
Obligations
What this law requires
Contractors seeking a qualification must request the qualification at the level of a specific company establishment, either the head office or a secondary establishment, rather than only at company-wide level.
Where a company has several distinct establishments, it must apply for qualification for each establishment that will carry out the covered energy renovation works.
Qualification bodies must verify that all qualification requirements are met at the level of each establishment carrying out the works for which qualification is requested.
Qualification decisions must be made by a decision-making body in which building experts or renewable energy experts participate in the decision.
Companies must provide the qualification body with information on the company’s claims history from insurers when the quality label is granted or renewed.