The bill to reduce the digital environmental footprint in France (REEN), including the extension of this royalty to reconditioned multimedia devices, should, except surprise, be adopted by the Senate on Tuesday 2 November.
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Ecological and economical: On paper, everyone sings the praises of the smartphones market and second hand tablets. But professional reconditioners, who deliver the devices in a state, distorts several decisions of the government that penalize their activity, according to them. To begin with the bill to reduce the digital environmental footprint in France (REEN), examined at second reading, in the Senate, Tuesday, November 2nd. In particular, the article extending to sellers of multimedia devices reconditioned the payment of a fee to the holders of the cultural industry, in return for the digital backup of their works.
For months, the reconditioners campaigned to not pay this contribution, which, in principle, concern the “first circulation” of the products. In vain. The government was also divided on this issue, but the Prime Minister Jean Castex, gave reason to the beneficiaries, who all asked. A new fee schedule for private copy, which provides for the case of the reconditioned, entered into force in July, and the deputies voted in June an amendment to the Reen law to that effect.
Unless surprised, the senators should vote the text in the state, especially as Wednesday, 20 October, the Senate Planning and Sustainable Development Committee adopted “compliant” the bill on The environmental footprint, including the extension of the fee. “This is not useless to revive the debate,” the senator the Republicans (LR) Patrick Chaize, who had voted an amendment for the reconditioners, at first reading, in the Senate, in January. “But it’s a political aberration,” he says. Other solutions existed, as an increase in the contribution on new products.
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The reconditioners, they did not loosen. “This royalty has been applied without taking into account its consequences in a young market, which still has to structure”, is worried Marlene Taurines, Executive Director of Smaaart, a company that puts on telephones, in Saint-Mathieu-de -Veriviers (Hérault). “It seems to us to go against the actions carried out by the government to support French economic sovereignty.”
The contribution amounts to 10.08 euros, VAT included, for a smartphone with a storage of 64 gigabytes or more, which represents about 4% of the average resale price (250 euros), in a market very competitive, where the raw margins are of the order of 10%.
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