DOCUMENT BFMTV – The government and the majority are leaning at the bedside of bakers, professionals hit hard by soaring energy bills. On Saturday, activists from the Renaissance movement will meet these craftsmen to give them a leaflet, summarizing the aid measures put in place for small traders and explaining the steps to be taken.
They are among the main economic victims of the energy crisis. Bakers are particularly affected by the rise in gas and electricity prices. To the point that some of them are forced to close up shop. The executive and its majority are therefore working to defuse the concern and potential anger of this key and sensitive sector for the daily life of the French.
While Emmanuel Macron addressed the profession on Thursday from the Élysée, assuring him that he stood “by his side”, he also asked his Renaissance movement to deploy locally with bakers in order to soothe them. The initiative starts with a leaflet that the activists will distribute on Saturday to the latter, as well as to artisans and small traders, during a door-to-door operation. BFMTV was able to obtain this document.
“Better protect” traders from “difficult situations”
This sheet, filled on both sides, does not include an announcement. Rather, it aims to repeat the measures already in place. Defending its record and claiming that the chosen mechanism has mitigated the effects of the energy surge, the government admits that “there are also difficult individual situations and sectors that are more affected by the rise in energy prices. energy.”
“To better protect them, and not to leave any professional without a solution, the government is acting with a massive support plan”, continues the text.
“Damper”, postponement and staggering of invoices: the proposed means
This then summarizes the resources available to these small businesses. Turning to shops that do not benefit from the “tariff shield” because they are considered too energy-intensive, the drafters of the text emphasize that the State wants to act as a “shock absorber”.
“The State pays part of the electricity bill when the subscribed price exceeds a certain price level”, it is written.
We then explain the procedure to follow: “The company indicates on the site of its supplier that it is an SME, the aid is then automatic from the January invoice”.
The text then recalls that in the event of a cash flow problem, “deferral of the payment of tax and social charges will be possible”. It is also possible, if necessary, to spread out the payment of invoices. To do this, you must “write to (his) supplier to benefit from it”.
Suppliers arrested
One part of the system precisely concerns suppliers. “All suppliers agree to renegotiate small business contracts that were concluded at unreasonable prices (negotiated at a time when prices were particularly high)”, can we read in this document.
“If so, the contracts may be terminated free of charge”.
Finally, it is noted that the suppliers have committed themselves through a charter of responsibility by which they undertake to offer “a balanced price within a reasonable time”.
“The State will make public the list of suppliers who do not respect the charter, if their commitments have not been kept”, warns the authority.
This also indicates that small traders and entrepreneurs can rely on a dedicated green number: 0-806-000-245.
Reply to RN
We must also see in this tract the response of the shepherd to the shepherdess. Or rather of the majority to the opposition constituted by the National Rally. On Tuesday, its president, Jordan Bardella, thus published on Twitter a Letter to the bakers of France. The one who is also a European deputy attacked the head of state.
“What a paradox to see the President of the Republic rejoicing at the inclusion of the baguette in the intangible heritage of humanity by Unesco, but condemning, by his inaction, thousands of artisan bakers to close the curtain, taken by the throat by inflation out of control”, launched in particular Jordan Bardella.
The latter recommended in his open letter to leave “European rules for setting electricity prices”.
