It goals to lighten sure administrative procedures
France’s Assemblée nationale narrowly adopted a brand new invoice on June 17 that goals to simplify administrative processes, particularly for companies.
Regardless of opposition from most Macronist lawmakers it was adopted by 275 votes to 252 with 21 abstentions.
The invoice was initially tabled by the federal government of Prime Minister Gabriel Attal in April 2024, however has been postponed a number of occasions, together with due to President Macron’s dissolution of parliament and the autumn of Prime Minister Michel Barnier’s authorities.
MPs and senators should now meet in a joint committee to agree on a remaining model of the textual content.
The invoice incorporates 26 wide-ranging measures overlaying features from payslips to low emissions zones.
Minister for the Civil Service and Simplification Laurent Marcangeli stated the invoice “responds to a transparent demand: to lighten the executive constraints that crush (companies’) day by day lives and hamper their improvement”.
A few of the key modifications embody:
Low-emissions zones
Controversial low-emissions zones (ZFE, Zones a Faibles Emissions) have been abolished beneath the brand new invoice. Launched in 2019 they banned most polluting automobiles from sure city areas. The ban was supported by the right-wing Les Républicains and the far-right Rassemblement Nationwide, and opposed by events on the left.
The federal government just isn’t in favour of abolishing the zones, and had proposed an modification to make them obligatory just for cities that commonly exceed air high quality thresholds corresponding to Paris and Lyon.
Ecological Transition Minister Agnès Pannier-Runacher stated she regretted the invoice “had been diverted from its unique intentions of authentic simplification to result in worrying setbacks on environmental and social points”.
Worker discover
To make it simpler to promote companies with fewer than 50 members of workers, the authorized deadline for employers to tell workers that the enterprise is being offered has been diminished from two months to 1 month. The high quality for failing to take action has additionally been lowered.
Simplifying pay slips
The invoice goals to scale back the variety of traces on a pay slip to fifteen from 2027. It at the moment has round 50 traces.
Pay slips will embody info on whole pay, however further info regarding ticket restaurant advantages, transport bills and so forth might be eliminated and be out there individually.
Insurance coverage claims
For property injury, insurance coverage corporations should pay inside one month of a declare, or inside 4 months if an knowledgeable is appointed.
It would additionally develop into obligatory for insurers to provide causes for a unilateral cancellation choice of a enterprise insurance coverage coverage. At current they solely want to do that for private insurance policies.
Infrastructure tasks
The invoice will simplify the foundations for organising new industrial and infrastructure tasks throughout the areas of local weather and digital know-how.
This can, for instance, make it simpler to construct wind generators and cell phone antennas.
The invoice will even simplify the implementation of compensation measures for injury to biodiversity throughout improvement tasks. In the mean time, compensation measures have to be applied as quickly as work begins, which might trigger extra prices for builders, however they may be capable to be deferred beneath the brand new invoice.
Industrial-scale information centres might be labeled as tasks of main nationwide curiosity beneath sure situations, which is able to velocity up procedures corresponding to connecting them to the electrical energy grid.
The invoice additionally simplifies the mining code, making it simpler to develop tasks. This was strongly opposed by environmentalists. Enterprise financial institution accounts
The invoice will even guarantee enterprise financial institution accounts could be closed without cost. There may be at the moment typically a cost for closing such accounts.
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