Three ministers to try to reassure an entire economic sector.
On Tuesday, Bruno Le Maire, for the economy, Emmanuelle Wargon, for housing, and Alain Griset, for SMEs, held a press conference to announce a series of measures intended to fight against the surge in the price of raw materials and supply difficulties which hit construction companies hard.
The government has made a commitment that public actors will not ask for a late payment penalty if the delay is due to a lack of materials.
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A crisis committee will also be set up.
For now, professionals consider this support insufficient.
"There is now an emergency because, because of shortages of materials, more and more craftsmen and entrepreneurs are forced to stop construction sites and put employees on short-time work",
warns Olivier Salleron, President of the French Federation. of the building (FFB).
And the simple increase in raw materials begins to cause
"cancellations
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