The rebate concerns individuals like professionals throughout the French territory.
Le Monde with AFP
The government rebate ranging from 15 to 18 cents per liter of fuel is now effective everywhere in France, Friday 1 Er April, what to relieve motorists facing the outbreak of pump prices since months.
Face at prices that have passed the 2 euros mark per liter on average, and among other measures against inflation, the Prime Minister, Jean Castex, announced mid-March this discount for four months.
The rebate will be “available in all service stations in France”, in metropolis as in the ultramarine territories, provided the government on Thursday. It concerns as many individuals as professionals: farmers, fishermen, road carriers, taxis, TBP professions …
“We expect a ram stroke during the first days of April,” says Frédéric Plan, General Delegate of the French Fuel Fuels, Fuels and Heating (FF3C), which represents independent service stations. . According to him, the motorists had waited lately to refuel, “because, as long as to replenish your tank, you wait for the opening of the measure”.
“This is a point of vigilance,” confirmed the government, which “does not exclude that, from below, there are situations with stations that are temporarily dry”.
17 corsica, 15 cents in addition to sea
The rebate will rise up to 18 cents TTC per liter in mainland metropolis, a difference that is explained by the amount of VAT applied in the different French territories. It will be about 17 corsicates where VAT is lower and 15 cents in addition to sea, where there is no VAT on petroleum products.
Some distributor networks add their own promotions to the government’s measure, which will devote it to three billion euros. The price displayed at the pump will include the discount, while initially the government said that the reduction would not be displayed on the totems of the stations and would be applied in cash.
Distributors themselves benefit from the discount, at the level of the purchasing power plants, since Sunday, which should allow the device to be fluid at the time of its entry into force.
The government has also planned an advance for small independent stations, often located in the countryside, which sometimes do not renew their tank than every ten or twenty days, so that they can apply the remission from 1 ER April.
A more targeted step to come
A decree appeared on Thursday also extended the cash advance to the average stations, a measure greeted by the profession, which considers that the rebate should be available from Friday to the vast majority of distributors. “Proven that the service voltage distributors concerned, that is, those who have inventory not stored, are informed and understand that they can do it with a cash offset by just days”, nuance Frédéric Plan.
“We will be extremely vigilant on implementation, that the entire public money paid upstream will be well passed on to the final consumer, have the government been assured. All prices are reported in real time on the price-fuel.gouv .fr , where we invite the French to go, to see who practices the most competitive prices. “
Disgrunt of the government announcements, some professionals had joined last week filtering dams, blockages of oil deposits and refineries throughout France.
After the 31st of July, the date on which this device will expire, another device will take the rest, “which will be more targeted, especially for large removal, modest households,” planned the government, for whom it was necessary This time for a bill to be implemented. A desired text after the elections.