CPF: heavier penalties for failure to take the final exam of your training

Some of the training courses you can participate in via your personal training account (CPF) are called « certifying »; they prepare you to a certificate listed in the National Register of Professional Qualifications (RNCP) or the Specific Register (SR), or to validating a skill block. An examination or evaluation must therefore be taken at the end of these courses.

In the context of the use of your CPF, you subscribe to several commitments (Article 8 terms and conditions of use); in particular, you undertake to appear in the evaluations, examinations or competitions scheduled at the end of your training, with a view to obtaining the certification in question. The Labor Code provides for a penalty for a breach of one of the commitments to which you subscribed : temporarily, you can no longer finance your training through your CPF.

Article 59 of the Law of 25 June 2026 on the fight against social and tax fraud adds a specific penalty for absence from an assessment or examination without legitimate grounds. It is now expected that you will not be able to use your CPF account to finance the training related to the exam (or assessment) in which you did not participate, so you will have to reimburse the amounts that were paid to the training organization.

An Order in Council will specify the legitimate grounds for absence from an examination or assessment.

Moreover, Article 59 of the Law of 25 June 2026 provides that you cannot finance through your CPF a training to obtain a certification (or validation of a block of skills) that you already have. An exception is provided: you can finance language certification training, even if you have already obtained the related certification (these are certifications aimed at achieving a level of knowledge of a language).