That’s definitely just telecoms.
Your underground supply might pop up somewhere to an overhead, but whatever/wherever the problem is it can only be fixed by ENEDIS.
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They’re not insulators. They’re special attachments to not damage the cable/s & also to tension it/them.
EDIT: Electricity is never slung at the same height as telecoms. If they share poles the power will be higher.
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Ah yes, I see what you mean - my fault for not clicking the image to enlarge it and look at it properly!!
Perhaps being pedantic but the diagnostique is not a survey as Brits might recognise it and is far from comprehensive. If the electrics are evidently dangerous then it will certainly be reported so it depends just how “British” the installation was and how evident it was.
In any event, the survey doesn’t force anyone to do anything and he will probably have an unpleasant surprise from his insurers if there’s ever an electrical fire.
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That is true but they do give you an idea of what needs to be done.
Mine picked up 4 items that will have to be done as a priority and 3 items that should be done but will be done at the same time as the others.
My Notaire also said that I should have gotten another document by law that gives more details or advised solutions on anything that does not conform so he is off chasing that (sorry did not catch the name but it forms part of the DDT.
Just wondered whether these are in conformance with the norms?
Timeguard FST24 - 24 Hour Programmer with fuse
No, it has a fuse holder for a BS1362 fuse so I’m pretty sure that’s as “right out” as counting to 5 while holding the holy hand grenade.
I imagine you want something like this:
OK maybe not that one exactly as it seems to be on Legrand’s Cameroon web site, but you get the drift.
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Surely it does in the case of a non conforming fosse septique.
I guess so in principle but tales are legion of people ignoring it and just paying the fines.
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Of course, with a non-conforming fosse, it could depend on what happens in the future to the effluent/water held therein and/or escaping…
Fines might vary across the country, but according to one website if a known to be non-conforming fosse contaminates the groundwater, nature etc etc… all bets are off. 
No, it wouldn’t be as it won’t be NF marked.
The bigger point is that such a thing is unnecessary in France. I’m assuming that you’re considering using such a device to control a heater…?
If that is the case all you need is a simple cable outlet from the dedicated circuit that will have been provided for the heating task (you don’t use general socket circuits to run heaters) . The heater itself will have all the necessary programming you need, unless you’re trying to use an outdated basic unit.
If you wanted to control a water heater then a DIN rail mounted timer in the tableau (as @billybutcher has shown) is a better bet. You can get internet connectable devices nowadays, which is an added bonus.
I have three towel rails similar to these. Purchased in the UK as I could not find anything similar looking in France:
Traditional Towel Rail with Electric Heating Kit.
At the ‘consumer panels’, the MCB that each towel rail uses is also used for wall sockets.
So I’m unsure whether this means that the towel rails are on dedicated circuits or not.
In any event, I’d prefer to control the towel rails in situ so that I can use use the Advance and Boost functions rather than have to go to the consumer panel to use a DIN rail mounted timer as @billybutcher suggested.
So I wondered whether there is anything that conforms to French norms that is similar to the
Timeguard FST24
It doesnt sound like it, towel rads are usually low power up to about 750 watts
Plug in smart sockets are available and most hve remote on/off and timer functions, you may have to put 3 pin sockets in though which may/may not be conforming to regs? Any temporary portable heater would be on a plug in so shouldnt be ab issue
That is outside of the designated bathroom safety zones of course
The towels rails that I already have and the ones that I’ll buy in the future are all 300 watts.
As @Corona has said you could use plug in programmable/internet controlled smart sockets (hard wired ones exist too), which would do everything that the UK product you showed does, & more. These would have to be in the ‘hors volume’ part of any salle d’eau to comply with normes. Mind you, so would the Timeguard that you’ve shown.
P.S. Whoever wired your house didn’t do it correctly, or the towel rails were added later by someone ignoring (or ignorant of) the normes.