Get the RGE mark (« Reconnu Garant de l'Environnement »)
Verified 09 June 2026 - Entreprendre Service Public / (Prime Minister)
Building professionals specializing in energy retrofit works or installation of equipment using renewable energy can obtain one or more RGE marks. They make it possible to value their know-how, offer a guarantee of quality and competence to its customers and be referenced. The labels also allow its customers to benefit from financial aid (tax credit, MaPrimeRénov', eco loan at zero rate, etc.). We explain the information you need to know.
Step-by-step approach
The choice of RGE mark (sign of quality) depends on the activity of the company. The labels are distributed according to the fields of works or study.
works RGE marks
Labels RGE: titleContent Existing works concern works for the installation or laying of:
- Boilers with high or very high energy performance or micro-cogeneration gas, including temperature regulators
- Solar-powered domestic hot water heating or supply equipment with solar collectors
- Hydraulic appliances for heating or producing domestic hot water using wood or other biomass
- Independent appliances for heating or producing domestic hot water using wood or other biomass
- Heat pumps for heating production
- Heat pumps dedicated to domestic hot water production
- Electrical transmitters, including temperature regulators
- Mechanical ventilation equipment
- Thermal insulation materials for vertical glass walls, insulating shutters and exterior entrance doors
- Thermal insulation materials for glass walls in roofs
- Thermal insulation materials, from the inside, walls, roof crawlers and attic ceilings
- Thermal insulation materials of walls from the outside
- Thermal insulation materials of outdoor roofs and roofs
- Thermal insulation materials of lost attic floors
- Thermal insulation materials of floors on unheated premises
- Underground heat exchanger of geothermal heat pumps, except horizontal sensors
- Equipment and materials for the production of a works package to reduce the energy consumption of the housing.
These works for the supply and installation of insulation equipment, materials and appliances must comply with high standards of energy performance.
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RGE marks studies
Labels RGE: titleContent existing studies concern the provision of studies on the following subjects:
- Biomass energy
- Geothermal energy
- Solar thermal
- Photovoltaic
- Regulatory Thermal Study
- Life cycle analysis of the building
- Building envelope
- Heating ventilation air conditioning
- Lighting
- Architectural programming
- Commissioning of technical installations
- Energy audit of the building.
These services can be of different types:
- Assistance and/or advice to project owners (for decision-making, verification of the integration of energy performance objectives into the program and monitoring of compliance with these objectives)
- Thermal diagnosis, thermal study and energy audit
- Project management general, total or partial (studies and/or direction of the execution of the works contract)
- Operations and maintenance engineering.
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A designated technical manager of the establishment must have successful completion of training initial or continuing training with an approved training organization.
This training complies with specifications. Depending on the RGE mark chosen, the technical manager learns in particular to:
- Understanding the energy functioning of a building in the context of PREH: titleContent
- Know the main key technologies, the different solutions for improving the energy performance of a building, their interfaces
- Understand and explain the energy renovation project, interpreting an assessment as part of a global approach
- Advising clients on technical, financial and other matters
- Design and size an installation
- Organize the key points of implementation and commissioning, and explain them to his interlocutor
- Plan the maintenance of the operation.
Please note
THEAdeme: titleContent offers online courses and open to all on the platform MOOC Sustainable Building. Its aim is to increase the skills of all players in the building sector in the field of energy performance. These courses are not diploma courses and are not recognized for obtaining the label RGE: titleContent.
General
Obtaining one or more labels is open to professionals carrying out works or studies that contribute to the energy performance of buildings and renewable energy installations.
The RGE marks respond to a resource and skills requirements framework based on standards and additional requirements defined in charters:
- Standard NF X50-091 or equivalent: RGE marks corresponding to this standard are called qualifications. They concern the technical capacity, means and skills of a company to carry out quality works in a given activity.
- Standard NF EN ISO/IEC 17065 or equivalent: RGE marks corresponding to this standard are called certifications. They relate to the competence of design and realization of energy renovation works of a company. These works must be part of an overall energy performance package. The certification also covers the ability to provide support to the contracting authority throughout the project.
- RGE Works Charter of 4 november 2013
- RGE Studies Charter of 27 may 2016
To obtain one or more RGE marks, the company must meet certain criteria and justify them by providing documents.
Please note
If the company has several distinct establishments, the issuing body of the RGE mark must request that all the requirements be met at the level of each establishment (head office and secondary establishments).
Administrative Criteria
In order to apply for a label, the company must meet regularity of administrative and social situation falling within its activity.
The file to be provided shall contain the following documents:
- Under the justification of legal existence: registration Insee: titleContent : Sirene: titleContent, Siret: titleContent applicant establishments where applicable, and code NACE: titleContent
- As a justification for compliance with social obligations: Statement of theUrssaf: titleContent less than 3 months from the date of submission of the application file
- For compliance with legal obligations: certificates of insurance in civil liability and construction liability valid on the date of filing of the file.
Criteria of technical and human resources
The company must complete financial criteria, professional skills, technical and human resources for the category of works concerned.
The company shall provide the following justification:
- Proof of mastery of the knowledge of one or more site technical managers designated by establishment
- Compliance with requirements relating to human resources resources (managers, executives, technicians, executives) identified, for example, by the number of staff, their initial or continuing training, their positioning in collective agreements, their professional experience and, possibly, their authorizations
- Skills in study, site coordination and consulting within a global offer of energy renovation of buildings
- Financial information on at least the last 2 accounting years closed for the body issuing the label RGE: titleContent checks the consistency and adequacy of its resources, and possibly assesses its financial health
- Compliance with the requirements of material resources for the performance of the services concerned (e.g. study, consultancy, implementation and control resources): these requirements are defined according to the specific characteristics of the sector of activity and the label concerned.
Quality criteria for works
The company must provide at least 2 references representative of realization projects completed in the last 4 years in the RGE designated activity.
The body issuing the RGE mark asks customers directly about the conditions for producing one or more of the references provided. They shall include at least the following documents:
- Quote
- Invoice
- Energy Assessment Report
- Certificate of customer satisfaction.
Criteria for company claims
The company must provide a statement of claims in the last 4 years. She can get it from her insurance company.
The body issuing the RGE mark shall evaluate the statement and take it into account when making its award decision.
Warning
The RGE mark cannot be obtained if the company leader or one of his authorized representatives has been the subject of a judgment for less than 5 years, finding his participation in a criminal organization, corruption, fraud, money laundering or an offense affecting his morality in the exercise of his profession.
The company must apply for a RGE mark from a French qualification or certification body. It must provide documents justifying requirements equivalent to those of the French system, issued by the competent authorities and services of the country of origin. It can also be qualified or certified by an organization in its country.
Neutrality criterion
The company must ensure its neutrality : it must be independent of any supplier of energy and/or equipment.
Rules on subcontracting
The labeled company assumes full responsibility for the works given in outsourcing.
The body issuing the RGE mark shall inform it of its customers' obligations to inform them and to comply with the laws and regulations on subcontracting.
Subcontracting companies must also hold the RGE mark. The certified company must keep at the disposal of the certifying body a list of subcontractors performing energy renovation services on its behalf and the certificates associated with their labels.
As part of the qualification, a maximum threshold for subcontracting the installation is defined by the organization issuing the RGE mark in order to ensure that the know-how of its company is maintained. This threshold is thus studied by qualification, within a range of 30% à 50% turnover relating to the installation.
Subcontracting may not exceed two ranks.
Example :
The main company may delegate to one subcontractor and this subcontractor to another.
This restriction on the use of subcontracting shall apply to energy performance works financed by:
RGE marks are issued by bodies which have concluded an agreement with the State, concluded for a renewable period of 4 years.
These organizations undertake the following actions:
- Respect common requirements to issue their labels through a charter
- Frame the criteria for label management through an agreement with the State.
The bodies issuing the RGE marks include (this list is not exhaustive):
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Organizations active in the field of renewable energy works and/or installations
Organizations | Works or services concerned |
|---|---|
Qualifications for electrical and power engineering companies | |
Qualifications for installation companies of equipment using or producing renewable energy | |
Qualifications for building companies in all fields | |
The label developed by CAPEB | |
The label developed by the FFB |
Organizations involved in the field of project management or in other fields related to construction
Organizations | Services concerned |
|---|---|
Energy efficiency and renewable energy studies | |
Studies on the environmental background of operations, the energy performance of the building envelope, works and equipment resulting therefrom | |
Specific qualification for the installation and maintenance of professional kitchen equipment | |
Qualifications specific to landscape companies (creation and maintenance of green spaces in particular) |
Please note
THEAdeme: titleContent published a booklet containing a list of RGE qualifications and certifications by works domains, as well as the labels and certifying bodies linked to them.
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To obtain its proof, the labeled company must apply to an organization issuing the chosen RGE mark.
The document attesting to the RGE mark varies depending on whether it is a certificate or a qualification.
A certificate shall be issued if the company fulfills all the conditions for obtaining. It shall be signed by an identified official of the body issuing the RGE mark.
Its period of validity, as provided for by the body issuing the RGE mark, shall be 4 years maximum.
The certificate must identify the certified person and each of his establishments covered by the label.
The document shall include the following information:
- Name of the body issuing the RGE mark
- Name, address, legal form and name of the legal head of the certified
- Reference to the qualification or certification reference and other applicable documents on which the qualification or certification is based
- Domain(s) of the label(s) assigned
- Insurance companies with which the certified person has declared that he is insured
- Effective date and period of validity of the qualification or certification
- The expiry date of the certificate.
The certificate must be registered by the issuing body of the RGE marks.
The contact details of the company and its qualification or certification shall be published using any medium that allows public information.
For any request of renewal, the company must undergo a new on-site inspection in progress or completed.
As an RGE-certified company, the company is listed in the directory of qualified professionals on the France Rénov' website.
This directory can be consulted at the following link. This also makes it possible to check that the labeled company is correctly referenced there:
Annual monitoring
The RGE mark is the subject of a annual monitoring.
The annual monitoring makes it possible to monitor compliance with legal, administrative, legal and financial criteria as well as the maintenance of human resources.
In the event of a change which could call into question the qualification or certification obtained, the organization shall maintain it or initiate a review procedure.
Reminder
The RGE mark is issued for a period of 4 years.
Control of realization
Within 2 years of the granting or renewal of the RGE mark, the worksites are checked in the context of performance audits by the body issuing the RGE mark.
The control is carried out as follows:
- The holder of the label declares between 2 and 5 sites per category of works from which the organization randomly chooses the site or sites to be audited. These projects must have been under way or completed for less than 2 years or, if there are none, for less than 4 years.
- The body issuing the RGE mark shall define the follow-up to that check as part of the investigation or follow-up procedure.
Transmission of company data
For the maintenance or delivery of the RGE mark, the labeled company accepts that the following data of its worksites can be transmitted:
- No. of Sirene: titleContent and Siret: titleContent of the labeled company
- Type of works
- Location of works realization
- Date of completion of works
- The body that issued the label.
These data are transmitted by the State administrations, theAnah: titleContent, and the SGFGAS: titleContent.
THEAdeme: titleContent and the bodies issuing the RGE mark are the recipients of that data.
The body issuing the labels may also randomly choose the site or sites to be audited on the basis of this information.
Please note
It is possible to refuse the transmission of this data. In this case, the label is suspended.
Customer Information
RGE mark
Some contracts are for the supply of services, the sale of equipment or the realization of works relating to housing with a view to energy savings or the production of renewable energy. Certain financial aid may be granted if the trader carrying out the works has a RGE mark.
Before signing the contract, the trader must indicate to the consumer in a legible and comprehensible manner, on a durable support, whether or not he holds a RGE mark for the categories of works concerned.
If he holds the label, the professional also provides the customer with a supporting document issued by the recognized organization from which it obtained its RGE mark.
If the trader does not hold the label, he must inform the consumer of the consequences of not holding the label on obtaining the financial aid to which he is entitled. This information must be included in the contract provided by the trader to the consumer.
Warning
Any breach of this rule may be punished by an administrative fine of up to €15,000 for a natural person and €75,000 for a legal person. Any contract concluded with a consumer in violation of this rule is void.
Rules in case of subcontracting
When subcontracting is used to ensure partial or complete performance of the contract, the trader must also inform the consumer. It shall provide the consumer with the identity of the subcontractors contributing to the performance of the contract and shall indicate whether or not those subcontractors possess a RGE mark required for the granting of financial aid for the categories of works concerned.
If the subcontractor holds the label, the trader must provide the customer with a supporting document issued by the recognized organization from which the subcontractor obtained its RGE mark, before the contract was signed.
If the subcontractor does not hold the RGE mark, the trader must inform the consumer of the consequences of not holding the label on obtaining the financial aid to which he is entitled. This information must be included in the contract provided by the trader to the consumer.
Warning
Any contract concluded with a consumer in violation of this rule is void.
Suspension or withdrawal of RGE mark
The body issuing the RGE mark may issue sanctions against the company, whether it is the holder or the applicant of a RGE mark. The company can be sanctioned in following situations :
- Failure to comply with the rules applicable to its label
- Production of works that do not comply with good practice
- Prohibited commercial practices or failure to communicate general terms and conditions (CGV)
- Use of a false RGE mark
- Failure to comply with the rules applicable to subcontracting
- Use of the identity of a public authority or presentation as belonging, directly or indirectly, to one of its services.
Third parties (customers, associations, etc.) may make reports or complaints the body issuing the RGE mark. This may, for example, concern the production of works of poor quality, deceptive marketing practices or failure to comply with the terms of subcontracting.
In case of one or more non-conformances, the body issuing the RGE mark may incorporate the following procedures:
- Checks on the completion of additional work sites
- Hearings of the company
- Requests for justification and supporting documents
- Complementary training.
Before the application of a sanction, the labeled company may submit its observations.
Sanctions following a non-compliance, found during an additional performance check, are the suspension or the removal.
Sanctions for a other reason may be:
- Suspension (temporary withdrawal) from the label for a maximum period of 2 years
- Withdrawal one or more labels
- Prohibition of access to one or more labels for a maximum period of 2 years.
In case of departure of the technical manager(s) and his/her non-replacement within 6 months, a qualification may be suspended.
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