The Minister of Housing, Olivier Klein, explained in “Le Parisien” that diagnostic companies do not have the arms necessary to carry out all the expected energy audits.
Le Monde with AFP
Thermal colanders will not be blocked right away. The entry into force of the compulsory energy audit in the event of the sale of a house or a building in single -ownership, to combat the most energy -consuming housing, has been postponed to 1 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 before for the application of this measure were first of all the 1 er January, then the 1 er September 2022. “This technical postponement is essential given the lack of business and qualified personnel to establish all the energy audits that will be necessary”, explains Mr. Klein.
“Tools”
Several federations of actors in the energy diagnostic sector welcomed this decision, which they had asked for 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,” said France-Presse Stéphane Prouzeau, vice-president of the Interprofessional Federation of Real Estate Federation. “The tools were not available,” adds Thierry Marchand, one of the administrators of the Chamber of Real Estate Diagnosis of the National Real Estate Federation (CDI-Fnaim).
The Minister ensures that this decision will not interfere with the schedule provided for the climate and resilience law, promulgated on August 24, 2021, with regard to housing rentals considered as thermal colanders. In other words, it is always a question of banning from 2025 the rental of the housing classified G by the diagnosis of energy performance (DPE), and in 2028 for those classified F. “It is out of the question that [this calendar] be called into question, because renovating housing is good for the planet, for energy sovereignty and for purchasing power “, underlines Mr. Klein in Le Parisien.
” underestimation ”
“There will necessarily be a delay”, on the contrary judges Hassad Mouheb, the president of the Federation of Real estate diagnosticians Fed Experts, due to “the underestimation of the number of energy colanders”. France would have 5.2 million of these homes out of 30 million main residences, a figure which exceeds that established during the previous estimate, in 2018 (4.8 %), according to a study by the National Observatory for Energy Renovation. The share of “colanders” 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 compulsory energy audit is “deplorable”, according to Mr. Houheb, who notes that France is already “a lot of delay on the energy transition in the building”.