Question 24880 — commerce and crafts

Summary

Mr. François André draws the attention of the Minister of Territorial Cohesion and Relations with Local Authorities to the importance of including local agreements regulating the conditions for opening businesses, particularly medium and large food stores on Sundays and public holidays, within the framework of the right to territorial differentiation. Nationally, several territories have been spearheads to carry out consultations with organizations representing businesses in the food or predominantly food retail sector and trade union organizations representing employees in the sectors concerned. Agreements were therefore concluded on the basis of article L. 3132-29 of the labor code in its version resulting from law no. 2015-990 of August 6, 2015 for growth, activity and equal opportunities economic. These local agreements have many virtues. They promote the culture of social dialogue to define, in good understanding, a framework adapted to the needs of consumers and economic players in a specific geographical area. They contribute to preserving or revitalizing local businesses in city centers and town centers, in line with the City Heart Action program and the Strategy. national for crafts and local commerce. They aim to reconcile the protection of workers' rights with freedom of trade and competition law. But, given the imprecision of the law, prefectural decrees taken on the basis of these local agreements are subject to regular annulments by administrative courts. Thus, decree No. 2016-19238 of the prefect of Ille-et-Vilaine ratifying the terms of the local agreement of the Pays de Rennes was canceled by a judgment of the administrative court of Rennes dated April 6, 2018. Today, the prefects can no longer come and secure the local agreements without exposing the State. In view of this observation, he would like to know the Government's position to legally secure these local agreements aimed at regulating the opening or closing of businesses to the public, within the framework of the draft “Decentralization, differentiation, deconcentration” law.

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