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To develop their roadmap for meeting the requirements set forth in the so-called “commercial sector” decree (the decree of July 23, 2019, implementing the ELAN Act), which aims to improve energy efficiency and reduce energy consumption in commercial buildings, professionals in the service and finance sectors need to be familiar with best practices in this area and demonstrate that they are implementing them.
Your needs
Do you work in the service or financial sector, or at a bank, in a role that deals with the challenges of the Tertiary Sector Decree to achieve energy savings in your buildings? AFNOR Energies is here to help.
Request assistance with the tertiary decree
AFNOR Energies is your partner.
Learn about the key issues in the Tertiary Sector Decree
A one-day AFNOR Compétences training course.
Apply for the Engagé RSE certification
To highlight your CSR efforts, including those related to energy.
Request a sustainability audit
A service resulting from the CSRD directive.
AFNOR helps you define your needs
Why adopt a tertiary decree approach?
Offices, retail stores, hotels, banks… The law requires occupants of buildings larger than 1,000 m² used for commercial or service activities to follow an energy-saving trajectory through 2050. Since the service sector is a diverse one, where activities take place in buildings where energy-saving measures do not generate an immediate return on investment, the decision was made to take a long-term view: thirty years, with milestones set in ten-year increments, relative to a base year that cannot be earlier than 2010:
- 40% reduction by 2030
- 50% reduction by 2040
- 60% reduction by 2050
This target applies to the entire existing commercial building stock as of October 1, 2019, and to each building larger than 1,000 m² individually within that stock. The text provides for a second option: to meet, by these deadlines, a final energy consumption level set as an absolute value by decree, based on the energy consumption of new buildings in their category.
These measures will help promote energy-efficient real estate assets and those that have taken steps to become energy-efficient. Indeed, the text stipulates that an assessment of compliance with the requirement must be attached to sales and lease documents. Finally, the text establishes a data framework: it provides for the deployment of an IT platform for collecting consumption data. Since 2021, owners, or their representatives, must submit this information annually, no later than September 30, with the previous year’s data, via ADEME’s OPERAT platform.
Source of figures: ADEME
