Question 14227 — security of property and people

Summary

Ms. Agnès Firmin Le Bodo draws the attention of the Minister of the Interior to the status of volunteer firefighters. In France, the permanent commitment, skills and dedication of nearly 240,000 firefighters serving the French, including nearly 195,000 volunteer firefighters, makes it possible to ensure the daily protection of people and property with quality relief, and therefore, the recognized quality of public service. of all. The volunteer firefighter, carrying out 66% of daily interventions, is an essential and indispensable link. It is his voluntary and altruistic commitment which is the keystone. Volunteering, this civic value to which all French people are very attached, is however today in danger. Indeed, by a judgment of February 21, 2018, the Court of Justice of the European Union recognizes Belgian volunteer firefighters the qualification of worker within the meaning of the European Working Time Directive (DETT). The European Court of Justice has also ruled that the Member States of the European Union cannot derogate, with regard to volunteer firefighters, “from all the obligations arising from the provisions of this directive”. Concern about the dangers of transposing the European directive of working time, which endangers the volunteering of the firefighter, is particularly strong within the departmental fire and rescue service (SDIS) of Seine-Maritime as in all the SDIS in France. This directive, if it were to apply, would call into question the civil security system, one of the most efficient in the world, combining the employment of professional firefighters and the volunteering of volunteer firefighters throughout the country. Furthermore, the financial consequences of transposing this directive would be disastrous for the institutions, which would lead to endangering the population currently protected. The State guarantor of the lasting preservation of civil security must therefore position itself firmly with European authorities in the defense of the French model of relief and civil security to which citizens are so attached. Also, she questions him about his commitment against the transposition into French law of the working time directive (DETT) to allow all French people who have chosen to become volunteer firefighters to continue their civic and altruistic commitment, and thus make it possible to save the civil security model.

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