the entry into force of the mandatory audit postponed again

Thermal strainers won’t get clogged right away. The entry into force of the mandatory energy audit in the event of the sale of a house or a single-ownership building, to fight against the most energy-intensive housing, has been postponed to 1^er April 2023, announced the Minister of Housing, Olivier Klein, Wednesday August 3 in an interview with The Parisian.

This postponement is the second: the first dates previously scheduled for the application of this measure were first of all the 1^er January, then 1^er September 2022. “This technical report is essential given the lack of companies and qualified personnel to establish all the energy audits that will be necessary”explains Klein.

” Tools “

Several federations of players in the energy diagnosis sector have welcomed this decision, which they had requested from the government, but insist on the responsibility of the State in this postponement. “It is the state services that have not sent all the necessary documents”tells Agence France-Presse Stéphane Prouzeau, vice-president of the Interprofessional Federation of Real Estate Diagnosis. “The tools were not available”adds Thierry Marchand, one of the administrators of the Chamber of real estate diagnosticians of the National Federation of Real Estate (CDI-FNAIM).

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The Minister assures that this decision will not interfere with the timetable provided for the Climate and Resilience Law, promulgated on August 24, 2021, with regard to rental accommodation considered as thermal sieves. In other words, it is still a question of prohibiting from 2025 the rental of housing classified G by the energy performance diagnosis (DPE), and in 2028 for those classified F. “It is out of the question that [ce calendrier] be called into question, because renovating housing is good for the planet, for energy sovereignty and for purchasing power”underlines Mr. Klein in The Parisian.

” Under estimation “

“There is bound to be a delay,” judge on the contrary Hassad Mouheb, the president of the federation of real estate diagnosticians Fed Experts, because of “the underestimation of the number of energy sieves”. France would have 5.2 million of these dwellings out of 30 million main residences, a figure which exceeds that established in the previous estimate, in 2018 (4.8%), according to a study by the National Observatory for Energy Renovation. The proportion of “strainers” is higher among second homes (32%, or 1.2 million dwellings) and among vacant dwellings (27%, or 0.8 million dwellings).

Under these conditions, further postponing the entry into force of the mandatory energy audit is “deplorable”according to Mr. Houheb, who notes that France has already “a lot of delay in the energy transition in the building”.

The World with AFP