The chambers of commerce and industry (CCI) protested Thursday against the drop of 25 million euros in their resources in 2024, planned in the draft budget, and called on parliamentarians to the rescue.
The finance bill (PLF), presented on Wednesday, provides for a payment of 500 million euros to CCI France next year, compared to 525 this year, all part of a gradual decline trajectory until 2027, of around a hundred million euros, they fear.
This reduction in resources, which will also apply to the chambers of trades and crafts (CMA), aims to draw the consequences of the transfer of skills implemented during the previous five-year term and encourage the chambers to intensify their efficiency, notes Bercy in its budget documents.
Our public funding has already been reduced by more than 60% in 10 years, requiring a 40% reduction in our workforce, notes Alain Di Crescenzo, president of CCI France, in a press release, assuring that the new reduction would force us to separate ourselves further. of 1,500 employees.
VSEs and SMEs see crises succeed one another from year to year, with inflationary prospects and sluggish growth, and they have never had such a need for support, at a time when they are embarking on the great challenge of transitions. ecological and digital, specifies the press release.
The CCIs therefore call on the State not to weaken the dynamics of the first public business support network in France, stressing that each year they support 419,000 project leaders, support 593,000 businesses, train 400,000 young people and adults, and manage 500 infrastructures to develop the attractiveness of territories.
Ladies and gentlemen parliamentarians, support those who work on a daily basis for the economy of your territories, declares Mr. Di Crescenzo, an appeal to deputies to modify the resource of the CCIs by way of amendment during the parliamentary discussion of the budget.
According to an Opinionway survey carried out in 2022, cited in the press release, the CCIs have created at least 2.5 billion euros of value in 2022, for an allocated tax of 525 million euros: for 1 euro of tax collected, it is more 5 euros of value creation for France.