The law Grenelle 2 is released!

Nearly a year after the Grenelle 1 statute, the law on national commitment to the environment, or more commonly known as ENE, Grenelle 2 is published in the Official Journal of 13 July 2010.
While the Act of August 3, 2009 was a law fixing the programming environmental goals and reduce energy consumption and emissions of greenhouse gases, Act No. 2010-788 of 12 July 2010, through its 257 articles, taking action, particularly in the areas of building, planning, transport, biodiversity, health and waste.


Real Estate Diagnostics
The diagnosis of Energy Performance (DPE) is expanding!
- It is now required at the signing of all leases, except leases and rural rentals;
- It will indicate, in 2013, for new buildings, emissions of greenhouse gases;
- It shall, within five years from 1 January 2012, be conducted for all buildings with a collective heating or cooling, except those whose primary use housing demand building permit prior to 1 June 2001 and with fifty or more lots in which an energy audit must be performed.
The surveyors are certified expanded their field of expertise they can prepare for the new buildings being retrofit work, certificates of compliance heat.
The diagnosis must be attached to the reorganization proceedings concluded on or after 1 January 2011 (not 2013), and its duration is three years. In case of non-compliance of the installation of sewerage not connected to public collection at the signing of the deed of sale, the buyer should make the work of compliance within one year following the sale.
When the information made public by the State on the risks of soil contamination on land are subject to a real estate transaction, the seller or lessor of the land must notify the purchaser or tenant in the act sale or lease, under penalty of termination of the contract, refund of part of the price or rehabilitation costs of the seller.


Real estate Transactions
Alongside all the latest in diagnosis, most notably that from 1 January 2011, the energy rating of the property will be displayed in the advertisements for the sale or rental.