What the order published on 28 October 2026 says
The order of 26 October 2026 withdrawing standardised operation sheets from the energy savings certificates (CEE) scheme was published in Journal officiel No. 0252 of 28 October 2026. It removes 27 sheets from the annex to the order of 22 December 2014, which brings together the standardised operations.
A standardised operation sheet is a flat-rate method set by ministerial order: for a typical operation, it defines the eligibility conditions and the volume of certificates issued, expressed in kWh cumac (the CEE unit, which adds up energy savings over the lifetime of the equipment). When a sheet is withdrawn, the operation it describes can no longer be valued through that flat rate. Our guide to energy savings certificates explains how the scheme works as a whole.
The text has three articles:
- Article 1 withdraws the 27 sheets, in all their versions.
- Article 2 organises the exit: the provisions of the withdrawn sheets continue to apply to operations included in a list that the certificate applicant sends to the minister responsible for energy, within twenty calendar days of publication.
- Article 3 orders publication in the Journal officiel.
The order enters into force the day after its publication in the Journal officiel of 28 October 2026, that is 29 October 2026. It is signed, for the minister and by delegation, by the director for climate, energy efficiency and air.
The 27 withdrawn sheets
The titles below are those of the sheets published on the DGEC page on standardised operations, translated from French.
| Sector | Reference | Sheet title |
|---|---|---|
| Agriculture | AGRI-EQ-105 | Stop & Start for motorised agricultural vehicles |
| Agriculture | AGRI-EQ-106 | Control of ventilation in silos and bulk grain storage facilities |
| Housing | BAR-EN-110 | Complete window or French window with parietodynamic glazing |
| Housing | BAR-SE-105 | Energy Performance Contract Services (CPE Services) |
| Housing | BAR-TH-122 | Condensing heat recovery unit |
| Commercial buildings | BAT-EN-111 | Complete window or French window with parietodynamic glazing |
| Commercial buildings | BAT-SE-104 | Energy Performance Contract Services (CPE Services), heating |
| Industry | IND-BA-114 | Natural light ducts |
| Industry | IND-BA-117 | High-performance decentralised heating |
| Industry | IND-UT-104 | Economiser on the flue gases of a steam boiler |
| Industry | IND-UT-105 | Micro-modulating burner on an industrial boiler |
| Industry | IND-UT-118 | Burner with heat recovery device on an industrial furnace |
| Industry | IND-UT-130 | Condenser on the flue gases of a steam boiler |
| Transport | TRA-EQ-104 | Energy-saving lubricant for light vehicles |
| Transport | TRA-EQ-111 | High-efficiency autonomous refrigeration units for lorries, semi-trailers, trailers and refrigerated swap bodies |
| Transport | TRA-EQ-113 | Energy-saving lubricant for passenger or goods transport vehicles |
| Transport | TRA-EQ-115 | Optimised goods transport vehicles |
| Transport | TRA-EQ-119 | Optimising combustion and cleanliness of diesel engines |
| Transport | TRA-EQ-122 | Stop & Start for new self-propelled non-road machinery |
| Transport | TRA-EQ-123 | Driving simulator |
| Transport | TRA-EQ-125 | Stop & Start for railway vehicles |
| Transport | TRA-SE-101 | Eco-driving training for a transport driver |
| Transport | TRA-SE-102 | Eco-driving training for a light vehicle driver |
| Transport | TRA-SE-107 | Fairing on an inland waterway transport unit |
| Transport | TRA-SE-111 | Optimised management of the whole tyre budget (passenger transport vehicles) |
| Transport | TRA-SE-112 | Round-trip car-sharing service |
| Transport | TRA-SE-113 | Fuel consumption monitoring using private fuel cards |
Transport accounts for 14 of the 27 withdrawn sheets, ahead of industry (6 sheets), housing (3 sheets), agriculture and commercial buildings (2 sheets each).
From draft to final text
The ministry had put this text out to public consultation in September; we had analysed the draft order and its two families of sheets. The published text keeps the same list of 27 sheets and the same mechanism for listing operations in progress.
The final text completes the recitals left blank in the draft. It refers to the opinion of the Higher Energy Council (Conseil supérieur de l'énergie) of 10 September 2026 and to the comments gathered during the public consultation, held from 16 September to 14 October 2026.
The reasons remain those set out by the ministry on the consultation page: streamlining the catalogue, ceasing to encourage the installation or continued use of equipment running on fossil fuels, and removing sheets with no certificates issued and no commitments in 2024 and 2025. According to the annex to the draft, the most used of the disappearing sheets were TRA-EQ-104, with 2 TWhc committed in 2025, and IND-UT-105, with 1.3 TWhc. The consultation page puts total 2025 commitments under the fossil-fuel sheets at 5 TWhc.
Listing committed operations
Article 2 is the only way out for operations in progress. The provisions of the withdrawn sheets, in their various versions, continue to apply to operations included in the list that the certificate applicant sends to the minister responsible for energy. The list follows the templates that the Directorate General for Energy and Climate (DGEC) draws up and makes available on the ministry's website, under the title « Tableau de recensement des engagements » (listing table of commitments).
The deadline is twenty calendar days from publication, which took place on 28 October 2026. The text does not specify whether the day of publication counts. As a precaution, we recommend sending the list no later than 16 November 2026: this is a safety margin, not a deadline set by the order.
For previous sheet withdrawals, the DGEC published on its page the table templates, the address for submission and an explicit deadline. For the September listing, it only covered committed operations for which no certificate application had yet been filed. That page should be checked daily until the list has been sent: its instructions for the present listing will be authoritative.
What is a committed operation?
The commitment date is defined by the order of 4 September 2014 setting the content of certificate applications. For an individual, it is in principle the date on which they accept the quote or purchase order, evidenced by their signature. For a company or another legal-entity client, it is the date of signature of the works contract, acceptance of the quote or purchase order, the work order or the tender commitment. A sheet may lay down specific provisions. A job with a signed quote is therefore, as a rule, a committed operation; a project still at the study or tendering stage is not.
An operation that is not included in the list no longer benefits from the sheet's provisions. Being listed does not remove the need, afterwards, to build a file that complies with the version of the sheet applicable to the operation.
The text assigns the submission to the certificate applicant alone, that is, the person who will file the application: most often an obligated party (an energy supplier subject to a savings obligation) or its delegated party, but also, in some cases, an eligible person within the meaning of Article L. 221-7 of the Energy Code, such as a local authority or a social landlord. A beneficiary or an installer therefore does not send the list to the ministry themselves: their role is to give that applicant, in time, the information needed to include the operation. In practice, a file forgotten by the applicant is also lost for the beneficiary.
The mechanism is not new. The order of 18 September 2026, which had already withdrawn two sheets from the catalogue, relied on the same principle of a list sent to the minister. The DGEC then set, on its page, a precise submission date and published one table template per sheet, with a tab of instructions.
What it changes for you
For an industrial company
Six industrial sheets disappear, four of them on steam production and combustion: economiser and condenser on a steam boiler, micro-modulating burner, burner with heat recovery on a furnace. A project committed under one of these sheets must be reported without delay to the partner filing the certificate application, so that it appears on its list. A project not yet committed can no longer rely on these flat rates: its financing plan needs to be reviewed.
For a haulier or fleet manager
With 14 sheets withdrawn, transport is the hardest-hit sector: energy-saving lubricants, Stop & Start, refrigeration units, eco-driving training, fuel monitoring, car-sharing. Operations in progress are listed like the others, by the certificate applicant.
For a social landlord, property manager or commercial building owner
The housing and commercial building sheets withdrawn (parietodynamic glazing, Energy Performance Contract Services, condensing heat recovery unit) were little or not used according to the annex to the draft. A building owner who has committed an operation under one of them should inform their partner without waiting. The sheets most commonly used in renovation, heat pumps and insulation of lofts, walls or floors, are not among the 27.
For an obligated or delegated party
The listing burden lies with the certificate applicant. Twenty calendar days is short when proof of commitment is spread across several installers and beneficiaries. Operations already filed and those still being put together should be separated before filling in the table.
What we recommend
Act before mid-November. Identify this week the operations linked to the 27 sheets, gather proof of their commitment date and pass them to the certificate applicant, so that the list goes out no later than 16 November 2026.
For a beneficiary, three steps this week. Find out who files the certificate application for each operation concerned (your obligated party, delegated party or CEE partner). Send them the signed quote or contract that dates the commitment. Ask them for written confirmation that the operation is on their list.
Review projects not yet committed. For an industrial or transport operation under study on a withdrawn sheet, flat-rate valuation no longer exists. The project should be re-examined with an engineering consultancy, which checks whether another route in the scheme, a neighbouring sheet or a specific operation, can take over.
Secure the listed files. An operation included in the list remains subject to the sheet in the version that applied to it: the file must be complete and consistent with that version.
Our engineers support industrial companies, building owners and obligated parties through this sorting, from listing to the valuation of certificates. Our energy audit helps refocus a project that has lost its sheet, and our team answers your questions via the contact page.
