Question 12892 — security of property and people

Summary

French civil security is based on a model which demonstrates its relevance and robustness every day: through its organization and coherent territorial implementation, our model makes it possible to deal with everyday accidents as well as exceptional crises. This model, which guarantees the daily safety of the French, must be protected and reinforced. It should first be remembered that the objective of the European directive, concerning certain aspects of the organization of working time (2003/88/EC), is to guarantee to all workers in the European Union a base of common, harmonized and protective rights. The judgment of the Court of Justice of the European Union, known as the “Matzak” judgment, arouses concern among volunteer firefighters (SPV), who fear a challenge to the French model of civil security. Indeed, the assimilation without adjustment of volunteering to work could limit its compatibility with any other salaried employment in that the accumulation of activity resulting from this assimilation could potentially lead to the ceilings being exceeded, making the employee unemployable at the end of a period of volunteer firefighter activity. Therefore, the Government, which hears and shares the concern of the SPV and elected officials, has immediately expressed its desire to protect our emergency system, relying, for the most part, on the civic commitment of the SPVs. Several avenues of work are being undertaken in order to protect this model of volunteering: on the one hand via an approach to the European authorities to establish the specific character of the SPV activity through the directive, and on the other hand, through the proposal of transposition of the directive, in order to exploit its broad powers of derogation. Elected officials and firefighters can count on the Government's mobilization to preserve the French model of civil security.

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