Question 14064 — energy and fuels

Summary

Mr. Marc Chavent alerts the Minister Delegate to the Minister of the Economy, Finance and Industrial, Energy and Digital Sovereignty, responsible for industry, on the consequences of the increase in diesel prices for the competitiveness of industrial companies heavily dependent on road transport. The war in the Middle East and geopolitical tensions have caused a shock in energy costs, which weighs directly on the margins, investment and export capacities of industrial sites. He underlines that the increase in diesel fuel significantly increases transport costs, which represent a significant part of the cost price for certain logistics-intensive sectors and that inflation in the costs of road transport of goods remains high, compressing the margins of industrial client companies. He recalls that the plastics industry is particularly exposed to these additional costs: almost all companies in the sector report being impacted by energy and fuel surcharges, with a very significant increase in their overall bill, only part of which was passed on to customers, leading to a rapid compression of margins. In this context, the Plastics Vallée, a strategic industrial center of the department of Ain, which concentrates a major part of local employment in the plastics industry, sees its competitiveness directly threatened by the explosion in the costs of transporting raw materials and finished products, in an environment of already very strong international competition. The deterioration of margins weakens investment capacity, industrial anchoring and the maintenance of employment in this area already marked by signals employment alert. In this context, he asks what measures the Government intends to take, on the one hand, to adapt and strengthen the support systems intended for industrial sites heavily dependent on road transport and severely affected by the increase in the price of diesel and, on the other hand, to consider, if necessary, compensation mechanisms or reduction of charges targeted on industrial areas strategic areas such as Plastics Vallée, in order to preserve the competitiveness of businesses and the jobs that depend on them.

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