Third-party certification body
Prove the biodiversity performance of your projects.
A certification issued by a third party, entered in the public register, verifiable by your buyers, your investors and the authorities that review your projects.
Cofrac accreditation No. 5-0655 · Certification of products, processes and services · ISO/IEC 17065 · Scope available on www.cofrac.fr
Manifesto
Biodiversity is not declared. It is demonstrated.
A label you award yourself remains a promise. An assessment carried out by a third party whose competence is attested becomes evidence.
We do not design projects. We do not support them. We assess them, then we decide.
The standards we apply are public. Our certificates are entered in the register. What cannot be verified cannot be certified.
We want natural capital to be treated as critical infrastructure: assessed, monitored and protected, like energy or carbon.
La preuve, pas la promesse.
Structure of the offer
A scale of evidence. 4 verbs, no mixing.
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Certify
Third-party certification of the ecological performance of operations: new construction, renovation, urban development, maintenance in operation.
Cofrac accreditation No. 5-0655 · Certification of products, processes and services · ISO/IEC 17065 · Scope available on www.cofrac.fr. This accreditation covers the EFFINATURE and EFFINATURE HVE certification programmes.
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Assess
A biodiversity score from A+ to G and an attestation signed by IRICE, at each phase of the project. A decision-support tool.
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Measure
Measurement and benchmarking of construction site carbon, from the contractor tender to execution.
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Inform
Information sites published by IRICE: a directory of schemes, an encyclopaedia, the European regulatory framework. No rating, no verdict.
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Effinature standards, version 25.05
119
requirements assessed for new construction
100 %
of certificates entered in the public register
2010
Effinature standard in use since
Separation of roles
3 roles, 3 entities, one shared roof.
A legal separation, not a cosmetic one: each has its role, under the same roof.
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Trademarks
NORMAXIS
Owner of the trademarks
Effinature, BPS, Efficarbone.
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Standards under licence
NORMATYS
Designer of the standards
Designs, develops, adopts, updates and publishes the standards.
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Decision
Certification body
Assesses and decides, as a third party.
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Approves the versions
Biodiversity Standard Council
Scientific and technical committee for the NORMATYS standards, run by IRICE on NORMATYS's behalf.
The scheme committee → -
Safeguards impartiality
Impartiality committee
3 colleges: independent experts, clients, internal.
Impartiality and separation of functions →
A shared roof
NORMATYS and IRICE share the flower, the typography and the address. The separation is legal: every document states who writes the standard and who decides on certification.
Directive (EU) 2024/825
A certification scheme requires monitoring by a party independent of the scheme owner and of the trader. NORMATYS designs, IRICE checks and decides.
The ecosystem
Biodiversity Partners support projects: qualified professionals, allies of IRICE. Qualitel Formation, a Qualiopi-certified training body, provides their training.
Your sector
What every client must be able to prove.
i.
Developers
Their challenge
Promoting the biodiversity of a scheme without exposing a claim they cannot prove.
Our answer
Effinature NCO to certify, the BPS upstream to steer the design.
Biodiversity you can display, because it is certified.
ii.
Social landlords
Their challenge
An existing stock to improve, outdoor spaces to manage, accounts to render over time.
Our answer
Effinature EVO and HVE, the BPS to assess a multi-site portfolio.
A portfolio whose ecological value is tracked over time.
iii.
Local authorities
Their challenge
Public spaces, land sobriety, environmental criteria in works contracts.
Our answer
Effinature HOR for urban development, Efficarbone to score construction site carbon.
Criteria you can score, compare and defend.
iv.
Urban developers
Their challenge
Operations to deliver under the zero net land take constraint, for occupiers subject to CSRD reporting.
Our answer
Effinature HOR, the BPS from the baseline, Efficarbone during construction.
An urban development operation proven at every phase.
Allies · Biodiversity Partners
They support projects, IRICE assesses. With them, we talk qualification, community and co-construction.
The Biodiversity Partners →Governance · BSC
Experts, project owners, investors and local authorities make the standards evolve.
Join the scheme committee →Values · each one can be checked
What IRICE is, aims for and guarantees.
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Impartiality
We assess what others have designed.
An impartiality committee with 3 colleges, no outsourcing of certification.
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Rigour
Every requirement is checked.
On documents and on site, by an appointed assessor.
iii.
Transparency
Everything a decision rests on is public.
Downloadable, versioned standards; certificates in the register.
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Openness
The standard is built with those who apply it.
Biodiversity Partners and the Biodiversity Standard Council involved in every version.
Personality
The respected referee: the one whose decision needs no defending.
Don’t take our word for it.
IRICE’s accreditation and its scope are published by Cofrac. Every Effinature certificate is entered in the public register.
Check on cofrac.fr →