Question 33892 — commerce and crafts

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Ms. Isabelle Santiago questions the Minister of the Economy, Finance and Recovery about the incomprehension caused by the closure measures targeting non-essential businesses. The criteria which led to the distinction between essential businesses and others are, obviously, difficult to justify with regard to their practical application. Certain businesses such as bookstores or hair salons could be essential services. City center commerce, already weakened by the first confinement, is often driven by very small businesses, often family-run, which today no longer have the capacity to suffer a sudden drop in their activity and income. Traders, artisans, small entrepreneurs are the beating heart of the territories. They do not understand that identical activities may be authorized on online platforms based abroad, and thus place them in a situation of serious imbalance of competition. Also, she asks him to review as quickly as possible the classification of “essential commerce” and to expand it, while respecting the health conditions allowing the health of merchants, their employees and their customers to be respected. She also reminds him that communities Local authorities have often committed large budgets to literally save their city center and their network, and are all collateral victims of this situation.

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