Question 17495 — consumption

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Ms. Marianne Maximi draws the attention of the Minister of the Economy, Finance and Industrial, Energy and Digital Sovereignty to the consequences of the announced elimination of funding intended for regional technical centers for consumption and similar regional structures. For more than fifty years, these structures have carried out an essential mission of supporting local consumer associations. They provide legal support, train them, inform them and thus contribute to making public consumer protection policy effective in the territories. Their action directly benefits citizens, in particular those furthest from administrative, digital or legal procedures. However, following budgetary decisions for 2026, the credits still devoted to consumption would be refocused on national associations, the European Consumer Center and the Commission on Unfair Terms, leaving the CTRC and similar regional structures without funding. This decision would eliminate an essential territorial link in consumer protection. This direction is all the more worrying as it comes after the dissolution of the National Consumer Institute and in a context of sharp decline in resources devoted to this public policy. It leads to the centralization of resources to the detriment of local support, even though consumer disputes, abusive practices, difficulties in accessing rights and economic vulnerability strongly affect low-income households and areas far from large urban centers. The CTRCs and similar regional structures indicate that they have been informed late of this deletion, even though they have continued their missions since January 1, 2026, due to lack of known arbitration. This situation places them in major difficulty, including financing their operating costs and supporting their salaried teams. Consequently, she asks him if he intends to reverse this elimination of funding or, at the very least, postpone its application until January 1st. 2027 in order to allow an organized transition, if it intends to recognize and finance the actions actually carried out by the CTRCs and similar regional structures since the beginning of 2026 and if it intends to guarantee the maintenance of a territorial consumer protection tool accessible to local associations and residents.

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1. 4 August 2026

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