Proposed by the Citizen Convention on the Climate, the system had to allow household access to modest income to a healthy and sustainable diet. The government today prefers to set up an occasional aid at the start of the school year to deal with inflation.
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The “food check” will not appear ultimately as a long -term measure in the purchasing power law which must be presented after the legislative elections. After several days of uncertainty on the assistance envisaged in the face of the inflationary context (+ 4.8 % on food prices in one year according to INSEE), the Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, confirmed at the microphone of France Bleu , Tuesday, June 7, that the government would opt for a two -step device: aid to precarious households to deal with inflation, which would be paid At the start of the school year, “directly on the bank account, at once”; Then the government would launch “a reflection on a targeted device to allow all French people to access quality products, organic products”.
Proposal resulting from the Citizen Convention on the Climate, the establishment of a sustainable food check does not stop being rejected by the government. When receiving the work of the Convention, on June 29, 2020, President Emmanuel Macron was nevertheless enthusiastic, even quoting this proposal at the top of those he “wishes [to] see covers”: “You propose Food checks to allow the most modest to buy quality products, this agriculture you want to transform, of this agroecology which you want to accelerate promotion: you are right, “he said.
Las, a few months later, the measure does not appear in the climate and resilience bill initially presented by the government. It is just slipping into this text by the vote of an amendment asking for the delivery to the parliament of a feasibility report within six months. If several inter -ministerial inspections – The General Inspectorate of Social Affairs (IGAS), the General Inspectorate of Finance (IGF) and the General Council for Food, Agriculture and Rural Spaces (CGAAER) – have led a well Common mission in the fall of 2021, hearing several players in food aid and agricultural sectors, their report has never been published, contrary to what the law required.
On January 18, in the National Assembly, Julien Denormandie, then Minister of Agriculture, conceded: “Yes, the food check is something very relevant and very useful, but it is complex to know what is the Good scenario. “The strong inflation following the conflict in Ukraine recently submitted this instrument to the front of the stage, Emmanuel Macron undertake to make it one of his first measures for purchasing power.
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