Obtain the Recognized Environmental Guarantor (EGG) label
Verified 21 January 2025 - Directorate for Legal and Administrative Information (Prime Minister)
Building professionals specializing in energy retrofits or installation of equipment using renewable energy sources can obtain one or more labels EGR: titleContent. They enable them to enhance their know-how, offer a guarantee of quality and competence to their clients and be referenced. Labels also allow customers to benefit from financial assistance (tax credit, MaPrimeRénov', eco-zero-interest loans, etc.). We'll show you what you need to know.
Step-by-step approach
The choice of the EGR (quality sign) label depends on the activity of the company. The labels are divided according to the areas of work or study.
RGE Labels Works
Labels EGR: titleContent existing works relate to the installation or laying of:
- High or very high energy performance or micro-cogeneration gas boilers, 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 the production of domestic hot water
- Electrical emitters, including temperature regulators
- Mechanical ventilation equipment
- Materials for thermal insulation of vertical glass walls, insulating shutters and entrance doors facing the exterior
- Materials for thermal insulation of glass roofing walls
- Thermal insulation materials, from the interior, walls, roof creeks and roof ceilings
- Materials for thermal insulation of walls from the outside
- Materials for thermal insulation of roofs on terraces and roofs from the outside
- Thermal insulation materials for lost attic floors
- Materials for thermal insulation of floors on unheated premises
- Underground heat exchanger for geothermal heat pumps, except horizontal sensors
- Equipment and materials for the realization of a work package to limit the energy consumption of the housing.
These works for the supply and installation of insulation equipment, materials and appliances must comply with high standard levels of energy performance.
What qualifications and certifications for what work since 2022?
Ecological Transition Agency (Ademe)
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RGE Labels Studies
Labels EGR: titleContent Existing studies concern the provision of studies on the following subjects:
- Biomass energy
- Geothermal energy
- Thermal Solar
- 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 managers (for decision-making, checking the integration of energy performance targets into the program and monitoring compliance with these targets)
- 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.

A designated technical manager of the facility must have successfully completed a course initial or continuing training with an approved training organization.
This training complies with a specification. Depending on the EGR label chosen, the technical manager learns to:
- Understanding the energy performance of a building in the context of the PREH: titleContent
- To know the main key technologies, the different solutions for improving the energy performance of a building, their interfaces
- Understand and explain the energy retrofit project, interpreting an assessment as part of a comprehensive approach
- Advise clients on technical, financial and other matters
- Design and size an installation
- Organize key implementation and commissioning points and explain them to the contact person
- Schedule maintenance of the operation.
Please note
L'Ademe: titleContent offers online and open courses on the platform MOOC Sustainable Building. Its aim is to raise the competence of all actors in the building sector in the field of energy performance. These courses are not qualified and are not recognized for the label EGR: titleContent.
General
Obtaining one or more labels is open to professionals carrying out work or studies contributing to the energy performance of buildings and installations of renewable energy.
EGR labels respond to a repository of means and skills requirements derived from standards and additional requirements defined in charters:
- NF Standard X50-091 or equivalent: EGR labels corresponding to this standard are called qualifications. They relate to a company's technical capacity, means and skills to carry out high-quality work in a given activity.
- Standard NF EN ISO/IEC 17065 or equivalent: EGR labels corresponding to this standard are called certifications. They relate to the competence of designing and carrying out energy renovation works on a company. This work must be part of an overall package to improve energy performance. The certification also concerns the ability to provide support to the developer throughout the project.
- EGR Works Charter of 4 november 2013
- RGE Charter Studies of 27 May 2016
To obtain one or more EGR labels, the company must meet certain criteria and justify them by providing documents.
Please note
If the company has several different establishments, the organization issuing the EGR label must request that all 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 the administrative and social situation relevant to its activity.
The file to be provided shall contain the following documents:
- As justification of legal existence: registration Insee: titleContent : Sirene: titleContent, Siret: titleContent applicant institutions where applicable, and code NACE: titleContent
- Under the justification of compliance with social obligations:Urssaf: titleContent dated less than 3 months from the date of filing of the application
- For compliance with legal obligations: insurance certificates in civil liability and construction liability valid at the date of filing of the file.
Criteria of technical and human resources
The company must complete financial, professional, technical and human resources criteria for the category of work concerned.
The company shall provide the following justifications:
- Proof of mastery of the knowledge of one or more technical site managers designated by establishment
- Compliance with requirements relating to human resources resources (managers, executives, technicians, executives) identified for example by the number of staff, initial or continuing training, positioning in collective agreements, professional experience and, possibly, entitlements
- Skills in design, site coordination and consultancy in a comprehensive offer of building energy renovation
- Financial information on at least the last 2 financial years closed for the label issuing body EGR: titleContent checks the consistency and adequacy of its resources and, where appropriate, assesses its financial health
- Compliance with the requirements of the material resources needed to carry out the services concerned (for example, study, consultancy, production and monitoring 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 implementation of construction projects completed in the last 4 years in the designated EGR activity.
The organization issuing the EGR label shall ask customers directly about the conditions for carrying out one or more of the references provided. They shall include at least the following documents:
- Quote
- Invoice
- Energy Assessment Report
- Customer satisfaction certificate.
Criteria relating to company claims
The company must provide a record of claims in the last 4 years. She can get it from her insurance company.
The body issuing the EGR label shall evaluate the statement and take it into account when deciding on the award.
Warning
The RGE label cannot be obtained if the company manager or one of his or her authorized representatives has been the subject of a judgment for less than 5 years establishing his or her participation in a criminal organization, corruption, fraud, money laundering or an offense affecting his or her morals in the exercise of his or her profession.
Neutrality criterion
The company must ensure its neutrality : it must be independent of any energy and/or equipment supplier.
Rules on subcontracting
The labeled company assumes full responsibility for the work given in subcontracting.
The body issuing the EGR label shall inform it of its obligations to inform its customers and to comply with the laws and regulations on subcontracting.
Sub-contracting companies must also hold the EGR label. The labeled company must keep available to 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 EGR label in order to ensure that the know-how of its company is maintained. This threshold is thus studied by qualification, in a range of 30% to 50% the turnover from the installation.
EGR labels are issued by bodies which have concluded an agreement with the Stateconcluded for a renewable period of 4 years. These organizations are accredited by the Cofrac: titleContent (or any other accrediting body signatory to the multilateral agreement taken within the framework of the European coordination of accrediting bodies).
These bodies shall undertake to:
- Meet common requirements to issue their labels through a charter
- Frame the criteria for managing labels through an agreement with the State.
The bodies issuing the EGR labels include the following (this list is not exhaustive):
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Bodies involved in renewable energy works and/or installations
Organizations | Works or services concerned |
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Qualifications for companies in electrical and energy engineering | |
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 |
Bodies involved in the field of project management or in other fields connected with construction
Organizations | Benefits concerned |
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Energy efficiency and renewable energy studies | |
Studies on the environmental context of operations, the energy performance of the building envelope, works and equipment resulting therefrom | |
Specific qualification for installation and maintenance of professional kitchen equipment | |
Landscape company-specific qualifications (e.g. creation and maintenance of green spaces) |
Please note
L'Ademe: titleContent has published a booklet containing a list of EGR qualifications and certifications by work area, as well as related labels and certifying bodies.
What qualifications and certifications for what work since 2022?
Ecological Transition Agency (Ademe)
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In order to obtain its proof, the labeled company must apply to an organization issuing the chosen EGR label.
The document attesting to the achievement of the EGR label varies according to whether it is a certification or a qualification.
A certificate is issued if the company fulfills all the conditions for obtaining. It shall be signed by an identified official of the organization issuing the EGR label.
Its period of validity, as laid down by the body issuing the EGR label, shall be Maximum 4 years.
The certificate must identify the certified person and each of his establishments covered by the label.
The following information is provided:
- Name of the organization issuing the EGR label
- Name, address, legal form and name of the legal person responsible for the certified person
- Reference to the qualification or certification repository and other applicable documents on which the qualification or certification is based
- Domain(s) of the label(s) awarded
- Insurance companies with which the certified has declared insurance
- Effective date and duration of validity of the qualification or certification
- The date when the certificate is due.
The certificate must be registered by the organization issuing the EGR labels.
The contact details of the company and its qualification or certification shall be published in any medium which allows public information.
For any request for renewal, the company must undergo a new on-site inspection, either in progress or completed.
As an RGE label, the company is listed in the directory of qualified professionals of the website France Rénov'.
This directory can be found at the following link. This also makes it possible to check that the labeled company is indeed referenced there:
Search for a company with the quality "Recognized Guarantor of the Environment"
Annual monitoring
The EGR label is subject to a annual monitoring.
The annual monitoring makes it possible to monitor compliance with legal, administrative, legal and financial criteria and the maintenance of human resources.
In the event of a change which may affect the qualification or certification obtained, the organization shall maintain it or initiate a review procedure.
Reminder
The EGR label is issued for a period of 4 years.
Performance Control
Within 2 years of granting or renewing the EGR label, construction sites are controlled in the context of performance audits by the organization issuing the EGR label.
The inspection is carried out as follows:
- The holder of the label shall declare between 2 and 5 sites per category of work from which the body shall randomly select the site or sites to be audited. These projects must have been under way or completed for less than two years or, if there are none, for less than four years.
- The body issuing the EGR label shall define the follow-up to this check as part of the instruction or the monitoring procedure.
Transmission of company data
In order to maintain or issue the EGR label, the labeled company accepts that the following data from its yards may be transmitted:
- No. of Sirene: titleContent and Siret: titleContent of the labeled company
- Type of work
- Location of the work
- Date of completion of the work
- Organization which has issued the label.
These data are transmitted by the State administration, theAnah: titleContent, and the SGFGAS: titleContent.
L'Ademe: titleContent and the bodies issuing the EGR label are the recipients of this data.
The issuing body may also randomly select the site or sites to be audited on the basis of this information.
Please note
It is possible to refuse the transmission of such data. In this case, the label is suspended.
Suspension or withdrawal of the EGR label
The body issuing the EGR label may issue sanctions against the company, whether it holds or applies for an EGR label. The company may be punished within following situations :
- Non-compliance with the rules applicable to its label
- Carrying out work which does not comply with the rules of the art
- Use of a false EGR label
- Use of the identity of a public authority or presentation as belonging, directly or indirectly, to one of its departments.
Third parties (customers, associations, etc.) can make alerts or complaints the body issuing the EGR label. This may, for example, concern the carrying out of work of poor quality, deceptive marketing practices or failure to comply with subcontracting arrangements.
In the case of one or more nonconformities, the body issuing the EGR label may incorporate the following procedures:
- Checks on the completion of additional work sites
- Company hearings
- Requests for supporting documents and additional documents
- Additional training.
Before the application of a penalty, the labeled company may submit its observations.
Sanctions following a non-conformity, found during an additional performance check, are the suspension or the withdrawal.
Sanctions for a other reason may be:
- Suspension (temporary withdrawal) of 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.
If the technical manager(s) leaves and is not replaced within 6 months, a rating may be suspended.
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