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Question· Question écrite4220open
France · National Assembly
Mr. François André questions the Secretary of State, to the Minister of Territorial Cohesion, on the importance of facilitating the deployment of optical fiber. During the National Conference of Territories on July 17, 2017, the President of the Republic highlighted the challenge of better digital access to guarantee equal access to the internet for all and fight against territorial divides. Cover the entire population with broadband by 2020, very high speed by 2022, and achieving a fully fiber-connected territory in 2025: these are the Government's ambitious objectives. To achieve them according to the set timetable, it would be appropriate to simplify procedures and remove administrative or technical constraints. Thus, during optical fiber installation work, the pruning of trees and the pruning of shrubs overflowing onto public roads can constitute a difficulty, particularly with owners. Faced with this situation, strengthening public utility easements for the benefit of fiber could be a solution. Regarding the connection of housing to optical fiber, Law No. 2015-990 of August 6, 2015 for growth, activity and equal economic opportunities simplified the installation decision procedure in existing buildings. From now on, the assembly general of co-owners can rule and vote for the installation of optical fiber, then give mandate to the union council, by voting by simple majority, so that it requests or responds to a request from an operator. Beyond this progress, reducing the decision-making times of co-owners appears necessary. Furthermore, in the case of new housing, the fiber pre-connection obligation should be clarified. He therefore asks him what commitments the Government intends to make to facilitate and accelerate the deployment of fiber optic networks in the territories.
Question· Question écrite3973answered
France · National Assembly
Mr. François André draws the attention of the Minister of Action and Public Accounts to the problems inherent in the publication of rulings granted by the tax administration services. In principle, once established, the rulings should all be brought to the attention of the public, by publication on the tax website, after anonymization and, where applicable, processing of confidential data. These apps to particular cases of tax law make it possible to better interpret the texts. In the current state of tax administration practices, there are situations where an economic operator requests communication of the ruling from which one of its competitors benefits, as being an illustration of the state of the law that must be applied to all. The administration refuses, on the grounds that this disclosure would violate tax secrecy. But the publication of the content of these rulings (relevant facts, conditions required for the application of the given tax regime, possible reservations, with the exception, where applicable, of data which would be covered by business secrecy), would allow the competitors of the said operators to remove any questions as to their compliance with the principles of pre-eminence of the tax law and equality before tax. While the bill “ For a State serving a society of trust” aims in particular to simplify and extend the tax ruling to other areas, it wishes to know the commitments that the Government intends to make to make these tax rulings public, in a process of transparency.
Question· Question écrite25464open
France · National Assembly
Mr. François André draws the attention of the Minister of Action and Public Accounts to the issues relating to the fight against tax fraud. This constitutes an essential lever in order to consolidate tax morale and guarantee the conditions for fair competition between economic actors. Requested by the Prime Minister, the Court of Auditors published a report on fraud in compulsory deductions on 2 December 2019. He was asked to measure the shortfall in State revenue and to formulate, if necessary, proposals in order to strengthen the anti-fraud system. Firstly, the Court of Auditors emphasizes that the work of quantifying fraud remains to be carried out within the tax administration. Unlike the majority of OECD countries, France has not implemented an approach estimation of the tax gap, namely the difference between what is owed by taxpayers and what is actually recovered. However, these estimates seem necessary in order to adjust the positioning of tax services and deploy an effective strategy for controlling and repressing breaches. In this regard, the Court of Auditors recommends in particular to provide for random tax audits in order to estimate irregularities by sampling and extrapolation. Secondly, the Court of Auditors welcomes the significant strengthening of anti-fraud tools, undertaken over the past ten years. It usefully recalls the progress resulting from the law of October 23, 2018 relating to the fight against fraud. This text notably broadens the scope of intervention of the judicial authority in this matter, by adjusting the “Bercy lock”, by strengthening the services tax investigations and developing transactional procedures. The Court of Auditors recommends improving existing tools for detecting and sanctioning fraud, particularly at the interministerial and multilateral levels. In this regard, the Prime Minister recalled the measures already introduced by the Government and announced several avenues for reflection. Thus, he asks him to specify the modalities and the timetable which could be considered in order to implement these announcements and deepen the efforts undertaken by the Government in the fight against tax fraud.
Question· Question écrite25417open
France · National Assembly
Mr. François André draws the attention of the Minister of Labor to the extension and extension of the innovative experiment “zero long-term unemployed territory”. The territorial experimentation law aimed at reducing long-term unemployment, adopted on February 29, 2016, set up this experimental project in ten territories for a period of five years. This experiment makes it possible to support unemployed people in long-term volunteers, by creating local and sustainable jobs to carry out useful and non-competitive activities within employment-oriented companies (EBE). The principle consists of transforming so-called “passive” compensation expenditure into “active” expenditure in the form of job creation. Halfway through, the results are encouraging. Thus, in Pipriac and Saint-Ganton in Ille-et-Vilaine, this experiment is a success recognized by all stakeholders. Since the implementation of the experiment, 96 people have benefited from the experiment, some having since found another permanent contract or created their own activity. Between December 2016 and May 2019, the number of people registered with Pôle emploi who had not worked at all for 3 years was divided by three in the two municipalities concerned; the number of RSA beneficiaries decreased by 22% ; social assistance paid by the CCAS of Pipriac decreased by 37% between 2016 and 2018. Support towards work is a source of emancipation, financial autonomy and self-esteem for employees and their families. The municipalities concerned also benefit from favorable repercussions, in terms of image, creation of new services and strengthening of social cohesion. At the national level, the Committee's reports scientific evaluation as well as general inspections of finance and social affairs presented in November 2019 underline the positive human and financial impact of the project on the situation of people and the community, while proposing an extension and extension of the experiment. Its success legitimately leads other territories to want to join the process, in particular rural municipalities and priority districts of city policy. He would therefore like to know the Government's intentions to extend this experiment within the framework of a new law, in particular the timetable, modalities and scale of this second stage which is fully consistent with the strategy to combat poverty.
Question· Question écrite22124open
France · National Assembly
M. François André attire l'attention de M. le ministre de l'agriculture et de l'alimentation sur l'opportunité que représente le développement d'une filière française de production de cannabis à visée thérapeutique. En effet, l'Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament et des produits de santé (ANSM) a entériné le 11 juillet 2019 l'avis du groupe d'experts (CSST) sur l'accès au cannabis à usage thérapeutique dont les vertus sont reconnues pour apaiser les troubles ou les douleurs des patients atteints de certaines pathologies, ce qui ouvre ainsi la voie à la mise en place d'une expérimentation. Dès lors, il convient de s'interroger sur les circuits d'approvisionnement pour fournir le marché médical. Or l'impossibilité d'utiliser et de transformer les sommités florales du chanvre comme l'impose le cadre légal français, à la différence du droit européen, empêche le développement d'une filière française. Le recours à l'importation semble donc indispensable pour mener à bien l'expérimentation à ses débuts, alors que des opérateurs français auraient pu se positionner grâce à une évolution plus favorable du cadre légal. Pourtant, les enjeux sont nombreux: constituer une source de revenus supplémentaires pour des agriculteurs, revitaliser des territoires ruraux, créer des emplois directs et indirects non délocalisables, protéger les consommateurs avec des garanties de traçabilité et de qualité, ainsi que générer des recettes fiscales pour l'État. Pour ce faire, il conviendrait de délivrer des autorisations, des certifications ou des licences de façon encadrée permettant à des agriculteurs et à des entreprises françaises d'utiliser les fleurs de chanvre pour l'extraction et la purification de cannabinoïdes avec des laboratoires certifiés, dans une démarche de simplification autant que possible. Il conviendrait aussi d'introduire dans le pays de nouvelles variétés de chanvre, inscrites au catalogue commun des espèces agricoles de l'Union européenne, pour produire du cannabis à visée thérapeutique et améliorer le rendement des cultures. C'est pourquoi il lui demande de bien vouloir lui indiquer dans quelle mesure le Gouvernement entend soutenir le développement d'une filière de cannabis à usage thérapeutique en France.
Question· Question écrite19825answered
France · National Assembly
Mr. François André draws the attention of the Minister of Agriculture and Food to the progress of commitments and payments from the European LEADER program because the situation remains worrying. Component of the European Fund for Agriculture and Rural Development (EAFRD), the “links between rural economy development actions” (LEADER) system finances projects in 340 territories in mainland France and overseas. It is an essential lever for developing and diversifying activities in rural areas in terms of agriculture, tourism or the social and solidarity economy. According to figures from the Service and Payment Agency as of March 18, 2019, only 17.93% of funds have been programmed and 5.45% paid. In the latest European ranking, France is in penultimate position in terms of consumption of funds at the scale of 28 member states of the European Union. Only 37 million euros of the 687 million euros allocated over the period 2014 - 2020 have been paid. This observation could be explained by multiple factors, including the methods of transferring responsibility to the regions at the time of territorial reform, the cumbersome procedures linked to over-regulation, the complexity of IT tools and the lack of human resources to the processing and monitoring of files. In addition, project leaders report great complexity in putting together files, requiring real expertise in project engineering, as well as difficulty finding co-financing. This is why he asks it to indicate on the one hand the means that the Government intends to implement to amplify the dynamics of programming and payment of these funds essential to the development of rural areas, and on the other hand if it intends to support the principles of simplification of procedures and decentralization of management both for instruction and for payment with a view to the next multi-annual programming.
Question· Question écrite10936answered
France · National Assembly
Mr. François André draws the attention of the Minister, to the Minister of State, Minister of Ecological and Inclusive Transition, responsible for transport, to the extension and modernization of Rennes airport, following the abandonment of the Notre-Dame-des-Landes project. Property of the Brittany region, the airport, managed by the operating company of Rennes and Dinard airports (owned by CCI 35 and the company Vinci Airports), has recorded its highest level of traffic in 2017 with 725,000 passengers. According to projections, traffic is expected to reach between 1.5 and 2 million passengers in the next ten years. Faced with the increase in traffic on the platform, it has become essential to carry out work. During his trip to Quimper on June 21, 2018, the President of the Republic confirmed the State's commitments in favor of the development of airport, rail and road infrastructure as part of the accessibility pact for Brittany. In the case of Rennes airport, the President of the Republic hoped that the State would allow “the extension of the airport by freeing up all the necessary land”. This is the condition for extending the runway, expanding and modernizing the terminal and, finally, increasing parking capacities. This is why he wants know the legal, financial and material terms as well as the timetable for the transfer of land from the State to the Brittany regional council to allow the development of Rennes airport. This is a major issue to strengthen the accessibility of the Rennes metropolis, the department of Ille-et-Vilaine as well as the economic and tourist attractiveness of the whole of Brittany.
Question· Question écrite24888open
France · National Assembly · 11 March 2019
Mr. François André draws the attention of the Minister of the Interior to the challenges of simplifying proxy voting, in anticipation of future elections. Defined in articles R. 72 to R. 80 of the electoral code, the procedure for establishing voting proxies requires the personal appearance of the voter before one of the authorities authorized to verify their identity. In addition to the dysfunctions observed in the delivery of voting proxies, this procedure tends to dissuade many citizens from taking the necessary steps to fulfill their civic duty. Certainly, the conditions for exercising the right to vote by proxy have been modernized. Decree No. 2012-220 of February 16, 2012 expands the number of sworn agents likely to receive power of attorney requests, while Decree No. 2013-1187 of December 18, 2013 relaxes the procedures for filing proxies. However, these positive developments would benefit from being continued and deepened. Therefore, the dematerialization of the system for establishing powers of attorney constitutes a lever for modernization and administrative simplification. On the one hand, it would make the exercise of the right to vote both simpler and more accessible. On the other hand, it would reduce the workload of the authorities responsible for establishing proxies. This would notably involve freeing up time for internal security forces, namely police officers and gendarmes, so that it can be redeployed towards the heart of their missions. In this regard, the current discussions on digital identity as well as the strategic priorities set out in the roadmap of the Ministry of the Interior seem conducive to reform in this area. So, he asks him to specify the modalities and timetable that could be considered in order to develop a secure platform allowing the dematerialization of voting proxies.
Question· Question écrite24880open
France · National Assembly · 11 March 2019
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.
Question· Question écrite11705open
France · National Assembly · 7 July 2018
Mr. François André draws the attention of the Minister of Action and Public Accounts to the VAT rate applicable to the provision of services such as skinning, degreasing and deboning of meat and meat products, carried out by specialized companies on the premises of their clients, namely groups in the agri-food sector. In the 1990s, a series of tax audits led to companies in this sector to no longer charge VAT at the reduced rate but, on the contrary, to apply the full rate. However, the position today supported by the tax administration is now the opposite since it considers that the service providers wrongly invoiced VAT at the rate of 20% and that they should have invoiced it at the rate of 5.5%, provided for by article 278-0 bis of the general tax code for operations relating to products intended for human consumption. According to the case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJCE May 14, 1985, case 139/84) and the Council of State (CE October 16, 1996, no. 138662), the qualification of an operation presupposes that, at the end of the process, a new product has been created by the service provider. It has already been held that operations covering sorting, grading, cleaning, brushing, pruning and application of a paraffin film on nuts before they are packaged, are not sufficient to consider these products as new at the end of these processes. It would seem that the assessment can be the same when it comes to derinding, degreasing and deboning pieces of meat. He therefore asks him to please clarify the Government's position regarding the VAT rate applicable to this type of service and property. wish to indicate to him that the Government does not intend to give the concept of custom work a wider scope than that required by Community law, especially since custom work is not expressly covered by Annex III to Directive No. 2006/112/EC as being subject to invoicing at a reduced VAT rate.
Question· Question écrite1486open
France · National Assembly · 9 March 2017
Mr. François André draws the attention of the Minister of State, Minister of the Interior, to the publication of exhaustive national elements for calculating the overall operating allocation (DGF). Article 138 of the finance law for 2017 provides that the individual criteria used to determine the amount of the different funds and allocations for each local authority or group of local authorities will be updated. available to the public on the internet. The General Directorate of Local Authorities (DGCL) certainly publishes the final calculation criteria, but the database of DGF elements for all municipalities in France is no longer communicated, with the exception of what appears in a broken down manner (commune by municipality). This situation is not satisfactory for understanding the composition of the criteria and allowing a full analysis and verification of the calculation chain of said endowment. However, the publication of exhaustive national elements for calculating the DGF is essential to facilitate the work of local elected officials, particularly in the establishment of intermunicipal financial pacts, but also that of parliamentarians in their control and simulation missions. He would like to know if the Government intends to develop this file, or even allow the publication, by the DGCL, of the exhaustive national elements previously cited.
Question· Question écrite279open
France · National Assembly · 7 January 2017
M. François André attire l'attention de M. le ministre de l'agriculture et de l'alimentation sur les retards dans le versement des aides PAC 2016, au titre du premier pilier de la PAC, ainsi que des mesures agro-environnementales et climatiques (MAEC) et des aides pour l'agriculture biologique 2015 et 2016 au titre du second pilier de la PAC. Dans un contexte économique préoccupant pour les agriculteurs, en particulier en termes de revenus et de répartition de la valeur ajoutée, cette situation entraîne des difficultés de trésorerie non négligeables pour les exploitants agricoles. Certains ont d'ailleurs investi d'importants moyens humains et financiers dans le maintien et le développement de systèmes de production et de pratiques agricoles conciliant performance économique et environnementale ou bien dans la conversion biologique de leurs exploitations. Aussi, il lui demande quels engagements le Gouvernement entend prendre pour répondre aux attentes légitimes exprimées par les agriculteurs afin de procéder au versement de ces aides par l’Agence de services et de paiement dans les meilleurs délais possibles.