This new tool with an envelope of 24 million euros in 2023 will be responsible for rethinking the place of trade in the city and supporting the changes.
Le Monde with AFP
In an interview with the Journal du Dimanche (JDD) published on October 30, the Minister responsible for SMEs and trade Olivia Grégoire announces the creation of a National Council of trade (CNC) which will work on the evolution of the sector and will be piloted by the ex-secretary of State for simplification Thierry Mandon.
“From the 1 er December”, says M me Grégoire at the weekly, “we will set up a National Commerce Council”, a “tool Indispensable for the representation of this sector and to work on its evolution “.
“I asked Thierry Mandon, former secretary of state for simplification, to ensure its piloting”, she specifies, believing that this “cantor of the simplification of standards (…) will be able to bring together “. “He will meet all the actors and, together, we will define a roadmap, with concrete and fast proposals in June,” continues the Minister.
an envelope of 24 million euros
If today “72 % of French spending is still carried out” in commercial areas, these “concentrate energy colanders, generate heat islands, consume agricultural and forest spaces at the expense of biodiversity And are sometimes unsightly, “she said. “It is time to rethink” these areas which are “today the symbols of the failed promises of the consumer society”, affirms the minister.
“With the CNC and all the actors, I want us to imagine their transformation to rebuild a business that fits into a place of life, densified and mixed with housing, services and offices, all with innovative architectural and environmental signatures, “she says.
An “24 million euros envelope” will be allocated “in 2023, to carry out 10 to 30 demonstrators”, specifies the minister, indicating that “the State will not finance this transformation alone but to stimulate it with the local authorities and accelerate it “.
As for the “Action Coeur de Ville” program dedicated to the revitalization of the centers of medium -sized cities and with an “envelope of 5 billion euros” of which 20 % went to trade, “a new component [is] In preparation by the ministries of the ecological transition and the cohesion of the territories, “says M me Grégoire.