The 2026 MEPE Route: 11 Occupations and Four Lines Set Aside

The official snapshot dated 3 February 2026

Chronology matters. The scientific committee gave its opinion on 17 July 2025. The Commission de la certification professionnelle deliberated on 27 January 2026, then the list was published on 3 February. It adds five occupations through 31 December 2026 and retains six listings. Those numbers describe the decision on that date. They do not justify calling these eleven occupations the current list without checking again.

R. 6113-10 requires a list at least once a year, following the opinion of a scientific committee made up of three qualified experts. On 7 August 2026, the official index still linked to the 3 February list and the 2 March guide. The call for contributions remained open, but the open call had not produced a new list.

Check the occupation, not just the words in its title

Start with the activities on the occupation sheet. Compare them with the activities and competencies in the proposed certification, then record differences in scope, employment setting and autonomy. Similar wording in two titles does none of that work. The authority retains responsibility for assessing the application.

Use the wording in the decision to establish whether an occupation is listed. Open the corresponding sheet in the guide to understand its scope and expiry date. One detail shows why both documents must stay together: the decision says Coordinateur écoproduction audiovisuelle et cinéma, while the guide expands this to Coordinateur d'écoproduction dans l'audiovisuel et le cinéma. That descriptive expansion does not create a twelfth occupation.

R. 6113-10 sets aside exactly four lines

The law currently in force is precise: a MEPE application is not subject to lines 1, 2, 2 bis and 2 ter of R. 6113-9. Line 1 concerns whether the occupation matches the jobs held, line 2 the impact on access or return to employment, line 2 bis whether the stated resources were actually deployed, and line 2 ter whether the actions match the frameworks. These are four identified lines, not four points removed from a score out of 14.

The Vademecum 01/2026 correctly gives the scope as lines 1 through 2 ter. A note in the March guide pédagogique still uses the shorthand critères 1 et 2. That shorthand does not replace R. 6113-10. Read the guide for the sheets and expiry dates, the Vademecum for application doctrine, and the Code du travail for the legal reach of the exemption. Listing does not remove the need for coherent design or individual examination.

MEPE removes four lines from the scope of examination. It does not turn an occupation sheet into a right to registration.

Lines 3 through 9 remain on the table

Reading R. 6113-9 and R. 6113-10 together leaves the following within scope: the quality and coherence of the frameworks, the effects of the environmental and digital transitions, occupational health and safety, disability, accessibility and universal design, control of the actions and examinations, occupational regulatory constraints, validation des acquis de l'expérience (VAE), blocks and correspondences. These lines are not ten uniform boxes. Some depend on the certification or apply only where relevant.

The January 2026 Vademecum predates these changes. Since 27 June, the law has given France compétences new inspection powers and created separate data duties: L. 6113-8 for certifying ministries and certifying bodies, and L. 6353-11 for training providers. Those general rules did not broaden MEPE. R. 6113-10 still sets aside only lines 1 through 2 ter. Establishing the list and examining an individual application remain separate sequences. After appraisal, the Commission gives an avis conforme, a binding opinion, then the directeur général de France compétences issues the decision.

Eight sheets expire in 2026, three in 2027

The guide gives eight occupations an expiry date of 31 December 2026. They are Responsable en approvisionnement et performance énergétiques, Préparateur technique d'actes d'expertise automobile, Expert en renseignement et investigation sur les cybermenaces and Expert en décarbonation et performance environnementale. Also in this group are Coordinateur écoproduction audiovisuelle et cinéma, Clerc assistant, Clerc gestionnaire and Coordinateur d'intimité. Three sheets run through 31 December 2027: Responsable de la conformité règlementaire (PRRC), Spécialiste en jumeau numérique and Superviseur de production virtuelle. The occupation names above follow the decision; the expiry dates come from the March 2026 guide.

The guide links access to the special procedure to the filing date and requires the application to be filed before the expiry date for the occupation. It adds that the procedure is no longer available after that date. Those two formulations do not establish with certainty whether an application timestamped on 31 December is accepted or whether it must be filed the day before. The decision says that the five new occupations are listed through 31 December 2026, but it does not set a closing time for the online procedure. Inventing either an inclusive or an exclusive boundary would therefore be wrong.

After a refusal, check the expiry date again

The guide closes off another false sense of security: a first application filed before the expiry date creates no vested right. If registration is refused, every new application must itself have been filed before the date attached to the occupation to qualify for the special procedure. The first filing receipt therefore does not extend the regime to a later version of the proposed certification.

Practical safeguard: on the filing date, archive the decision, the relevant guide sheet, the timestamped receipt and an analysis connecting the proposal's activities with the occupation's scope. This archive is not an official list of mandatory documents. It lets you reconstruct the snapshot relied upon and avoids confusing a later update with the position on the first filing date. After a refusal, repeat this check from the beginning.

R. 6113-10 provides a three-year term only when registration is actually granted under this regime. Neither the occupation's presence on the list nor an application received in time creates that term on its own. The term exists only after the Commission's binding opinion and the decision of the Director-General.