The deputies begin, Monday, March 24, in a special committee, the examination of the simplification bill, an eclectic and technical text, supposed to facilitate the life of companies, but some of which promise to divide the debates, especially on the environmental component. Placed almost a year ago, the bill adopted in the Senate was struck by the dissolution and then the censorship of the Barnier government. Presented as a way to limit paperwork for companies, it gives ideas to deputies, who filed more than 1,300 amendments (400 had been declared inadmissible on Sunday evening). The debates could spread over more than a week.
“Our country is obese of its bureaucracy. For years, we have tried slimming regimes and alternative medicine. We must now go to a higher stage,” Laurent Marcangeli, Minister of Simplification. The text addresses many subjects, starting with the abolition of a certain number of advisory administrative commissions. The article concerned is the subject of nearly 150 amendments.
The bill also contains measures on the installation of industries, inscribes the will of the executive to review the existing 1,800 CERFA forms and to delete “150 for the end of the year”, according to the Minister of Commerce Véronique Louwagie. In addition, it provides for a “SME test” to assess upstream the impact of new standards on companies. But the introduction to the Senate of a “high advice to simplification” to supervise this mission is welcomed freshly to the National Assembly.
In addition, the text is targeting by 2028 that all public contracts go through the unique place platform. An obligation that Véronique Louwagie nevertheless wishes to postpone to 2030 to avoid the “one -stop shop”, according to Le Figaro.
Datacenters in the viewfinder of associations
“It is not necessarily this text that will revolutionize the life of companies,” said one of the rapporteurs Christophe Naegelen (Liot). “It is a marker to be able to make bills that go much further.” The deputies, however, intend to launch very lively debates, with on the menu RN and right amendments to remove or suspend areas with low emissions or zero -artificialization of the soil, two devices clearing the political debate.
An article, allowing the data centers (datacenters) to be able to claim under conditions of the status of “project of major national interest”, also strongly worries the rebellious and the environmentalists, who see it as a desire to derogate from the obligation to protect protected species. The measure “accelerates the ecocidal impact of the IT industry”, also criticized the association The quadrature of the net.
Finally, environmentalists suspect the executive of wanting to limit or even remove the skills of the national public debate commission for industrial projects. “It would be an attack on democratic debate,” warned the ecologist Julie Ozenne.