The bill "aiming to secure the supply of French people with consumer products" arouses passions.
Tabled by the deputy Frédéric Descrozaille (Renaissance) and examined this Monday in the National Assembly, it aims to rebalance the annual negotiations between distributors and agrifood manufacturers for the benefit of the latter.
The subject is all the more burning as these negotiations are currently taking place in a climate strained by inflation.
The text provokes an outcry from the distributors, who split a press release this Sunday.
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Usually competitors, but here united in an unprecedented way, Auchan, Carrefour, Casino group, Cora, E.Leclerc, Intermarché, Lidl, Netto, Système U denounce a proposal which aims to prevent commercial negotiation for the benefit of very large manufacturers, and which will dramatically and sustainably fuel inflation.
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They are above all headwind against Article 3, which provides that in the event of failure of the negotiations, the tariff proposed by the manufacturers is applied during the notice period preceding the breach of the contract.
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The signs will be forced to accept the prices imposed on them by these multinationals, including with increases of more than 30%
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Frédéric Descrozaille refutes this analysis.
It has just introduced an additional period of one month for an agreement under the aegis of the mediator.
At the end, if the negotiations are unsuccessful, the industrial tariff could apply.
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In this case, the manufacturers have the possibility of stopping to deliver,
he believes.
No one has an interest in severing the business relationship.
To those who talk about receipts, I answer jobs and wages
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