Question 34994 — payment methods

Summary

Mrs. Yolaine de Courson draws the attention of the Minister of the Economy, Finance and Recovery to the use by local authorities of complementary local currencies. Although Law No. 2014-856 of July 31, 2014 relating to the social and solidarity economy introduced the title of complementary local currency into the monetary and financial code, the current French legal framework does not allow optimal use of these currencies by communities. These can certainly accept payments in local currency and ensure that some of their payments can be received in local currency by their recipients, but they can neither collect nor disburse means of payment in local currency. Decree No. 2012-1246 of November 7, 2012 relating to public budgetary and accounting management provides that the means of payment acceptable are those provided for by the monetary and financial code. However, the decree of December 24, 2012 implementing articles 25, 26, 32, 34, 35, 39 and 43 of decree no. 2012-1246 of November 7, 2012 relating to public budgetary and accounting management and listing the means of settling public expenditure and the means of collecting public revenue has not been revised following the modification of the monetary and financial code by the introduction of complementary local currency securities in 2014. This lack of revision currently prevents local authorities from having a local currency account, which could then be debited or credited depending on their revenue and expenditure made with these means of payment. Paying treasurers are also not able to open and manage a local currency account for communities. who would like it. Convinced that the use of complementary local currencies by communities could be a powerful lever for economic recovery of territories from a perspective of sustainable development, she would like to know the Government's position on possible regulatory developments facilitating this system.

Machine translation from French. The official text remains authoritative.

Timeline

No timeline events have been ingested for this record yet.

Votes

No vote records are attached yet.

Versions

No version snapshots stored. Document URLs remain at the source.

Documents

No documents linked.

Sponsors

No sponsors or actors listed by the source.

Related records

No cross-record relationships stored yet.