RNCP skill blocks on EDOF: the requirement to handle before October 22, 2026

On October 22, 2026 — just over two months from now — part of the RNCP-certified courses listed on Mon Compte Formation will simply stop showing up in CPF account holders’ search results. Not because they’re no longer eligible, but because a mandatory field wasn’t filled in on time. Here’s what the Caisse des Dépôts expects from your training organisation, and how to be ready before the deadline.

A new field for RNCP courses

Since June 11, 2026, any training provider listing an EDOF offer that prepares learners for a certification registered in the Répertoire national des certifications professionnelles (RNCP) must fill in two extra pieces of information on the offer’s listing:

1. the list of skill blocks targeted by the course — the full certification, or only a selection of skill blocks;
2. whether that list is customisable or not depending on the learner’s profile and prior achievements.

This requirement only concerns the RNCP: courses aimed at a Répertoire spécifique certification (regulatory authorisations, CQPs outside the RNCP, complementary certifications) remain out of scope, as do the non-certifying courses in your catalogue. If your organisation only prepares learners for Répertoire spécifique titles, this doesn’t directly affect you — but if any part of your offer sits on the RNCP, it’s worth double-checking even if you’re unsure.

Where this data comes from, and why now

The list of skill blocks for each RNCP certification isn’t something a training provider invents: it comes from the reference framework filed by the certifying body with France Compétences, which then passes it on to the Caisse des Dépôts. In practice, your job isn’t to build a taxonomy — it’s to select, among the blocks already listed for the targeted certification, the ones your course actually covers.

This requirement extends a shift France Compétences has been pushing for several years: making the real granularity of a certification visible to the end user, instead of a single “certifying course” line. A CPF account holder searching for a short course can now tell an offer covering an entire professional title apart from one covering only one or two blocks — a distinction already familiar if your organisation issues professional skill certificates (CCP) through partial validation.

Timeline: an update window through October 22, 2026

Between June 11 and October 22, 2026, the Caisse des Dépôts is allowing a transition period: providers can update their listings without any impact on their current visibility on Mon Compte Formation. Use that window rather than waiting for the final week.

What happens if nothing is done

After October 22, 2026, any RNCP listing that hasn’t been completed with these two fields disappears from the search engine CPF account holders use to find a course. The offer isn’t deleted from your EDOF space — it stays technically registered — but it becomes invisible to the public, which for a provider whose intake mostly runs through the CPF amounts to losing its main enrolment channel for that course, with no visible warning from the outside. Enrolments already in progress will still go through, but no new request can reach you while the listing stays incomplete.

From that same date, Mon Compte Formation users will be able to see directly in search results whether a course prepares for the full certification or only part of it — and review the targeted blocks before even contacting the provider.

How to declare your skill blocks in EDOF

The process happens directly in your EDOF space, on each relevant offer’s listing:

• Manual entry: in the offer description form, a new section lets you tick, among the skill blocks listed for the targeted certification, the ones your course covers, and specify whether that selection can be adapted to the learner’s profile during entry-level pedagogical positioning.
• XML import: if you sync your catalogue from management software, the Caisse des Dépôts’ technical guide (April 2026 version) includes both fields in the import flow, sparing providers with a large catalogue a duplicate manual entry.

Either way, plan to go through all your RNCP offers one by one: there is, at this stage, no automatic bulk update, and one forgotten course means one invisible course come October.

Why this granularity matters beyond the administrative box-ticking

Precisely declaring the targeted blocks isn’t just a box to tick to stay listed — it’s also a clarity signal for the future learner, who understands better what they’re getting with their CPF rights. A study by Susan Athey (Stanford Graduate School of Business) and Emil Palikot (Northeastern University), “The Value of Non-Traditional Credentials in the Labor Market”, based on more than 800,000 holders of online certificates, found that making modular credentials more visible measurably improves the labour-market outcomes of their holders, particularly for less-qualified profiles at the outset. Making it clear, right on the EDOF listing, exactly what a blocks-based course covers follows the same logic: a learner who knows precisely what they’re validating is better equipped to leverage it afterward — which indirectly feeds into the satisfaction tracked under your indicator 2 and the fit between your offer and market needs monitored under indicator 7.

Checklist before October 22, 2026

1. List your EDOF offers preparing for an RNCP certification — courses aimed only at the Répertoire spécifique aren’t affected.
2. For each one, open the listing in EDOF and check whether the skill-block list and the customisable flag have already been filled in.
3. Complete the two missing fields, ticking the blocks actually covered by the delivered content — not the whole reference framework by default if your course only prepares part of it.
4. If you import your catalogue via XML, check with your software provider that the flow includes the EDOF guide version applicable since June 11, 2026.
5. Document the update (date, offers processed) in your quality file, as proof of regulatory watch under your indicator 23.

Take action

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