Question 5511 — consumption

Summary

Mr. Patrice Martin draws the attention of the Minister of Agriculture and Food Sovereignty to the strengthening of controls relating to fraud at the origin of food products. As part of the government's response to the concerns expressed by farmers at the start of 2024, a plan for 10,000 checks on the French origin of food products was announced for 2024 by the Minister of the Economy, finances and industrial and digital sovereignty, Mr. Bruno Le Maire, as well as by the Minister Delegate in charge of Business, Tourism and Consumption, Ms. Olivia Grégoire. Ces controls, carried out by the Directorate General for Competition, Consumption and Fraud Repression (DGCCRF), aim to fight against the Frenchification of products, a practice consisting of unduly attributing a French origin to foodstuffs which are not produced in France. This fraud harms consumers, who are misled about the origin and quality of the products they buy, while generating unfair competition to the detriment of French producers, who lose markets and see their business weakened. The controls carried out by the DGCCRF focused on distribution points and the entire marketing chain, in order to ensure transparent information and detect possible fraudulent practices. On March 13, 2025, the DGCCRF published the results of these checks, revealing an anomaly rate of 34%. This campaign led to the issuance of 1,802 warnings for minor violations, 588 injunctions for cessation of illicit practices and 562 reports for serious infractions. However, this limited volume of verbalizations, in view of the anomaly rate observed, questions the effectiveness of the sanctions taken against fraudsters and the dissuasive capacity of these controls. In this context and in order to assess the real evolution of the level of surveillance, he wishes to know the number of controls carried out in 2022, 2023 and 2024 as well as those planned for 2025, in order to check whether this announcement reflects a real intensification of controls or is more of a display policy. He also wishes to know why the number of fines remains relatively low given the high rate of anomalies observed. Finally, he asks what measures the Government intends to take to strengthen these controls and their sanctions, in order to fight more effectively against this fraud and ensure better protection of French producers.

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