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VS’is sweet information for a lot of households in France. Parliament urgently adopted on Monday December 18, by a ultimate vote within the Senate, the extension till the top of 2024 of an exemption which permits restaurant vouchers for use to buy all meals merchandise. The textual content, introduced by the federal government as a measure to fight nonetheless excessive inflation, was adopted by 322 votes to 2 by senators within the night.
Pressed for time because the system was because of expire on the finish of 2023 if no legislative adjustments had been made, the parliamentarians of the High Assembly stored the identical editorial model as that adopted by the National Assembly on the finish of November. This will permit the system to return into power as rapidly as doable, “a necessity in the very short term” in line with Minister of Commerce Olivia Grégoire.
The system, applied in 2022 and purported to expire on December 31, 2023, permits some 5.4 million staff in France to make use of their “restaurant vouchers” to purchase non-directly consumable merchandise on the cabinets (flour, pasta , rice, meat, and so forth.), whereas they’re usually reserved for straight consumable merchandise along with eating places.
Restaurateurs extra reserved than ever on this measure
In the Senate, a number of environmentalist and centrist senators tried, in useless, to restrict the extension to 6 months, to June 30, 2024. The authorities, in favor of extending the system quickly, repeated Monday night that it will be open to an enduring reform of meal vouchers, significantly with a view to their dematerialization. “We need to modernize it, dust it off,” stated Olivia Grégoire. However, pure and easy sustainability “requires more in-depth work and consultation,” she added.
Les Républicains rapporteur Marie-Do Aeschlimann went in the identical route by asking for a broad vote with out modification “immediately and in the face of the emergency”. She however underlined the “reservations” expressed by the restaurateurs in opposition to which the Senate might be “vigilant”.
“We are not unaware of the risk of destabilization of the catering sector already strongly affected by successive crises. Likewise, we do not ignore the need to find a lasting solution for the purchasing power of the French because the check policy is akin to a bandage on a wooden leg,” she continued.
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