In an interview at Sunday newspaper (JDD) published on October 30, the Minister for SMEs and Trade Olivia Grégoire announced the creation of a National Trade Council (CNC) which will work on the development of the sector and will be led by the former Secretary of State for Simplification Thierry Mandon.
“From the 1er december “says M.me Grégoire at the weekly, “We are going to set up a National Trade Council”a “Indispensable tool for the representation of this sector and for working on its development”.
“I asked Thierry Mandon, former Secretary of State for Simplification, to oversee it”she specifies, believing that this “cantor of the simplification of standards (…) will know how to collect. “He will meet all the players and, together, we will define a roadmap, with concrete and rapid proposals from June”continues the minister.
An envelope of 24 million euros
If today “72% of the expenses of the French are always made” in commercial areas, these “concentrate energy sieves, generate heat islands, consume agricultural and forest areas to the detriment of biodiversity and are sometimes unsightly”she says. “It’s time to rethink” those areas that are “today the symbols of the failed promises of the consumer society”says the Minister.
“With the CNC and all the players, I want us to imagine their transformation to rebuild a business that fits into a place of life, densified and mixed with housing, services and offices, all with signatures innovative architectural and environmental solutions”she says.
A “envelope of 24 million euros” will be allocated “in 2023, to carry out 10 to 30 demonstrators”specifies the Minister, indicating that “The State will not finance this transformation alone but will stimulate it with local authorities and accelerate it”.
As for the “Action heart of the city” program dedicated to the revitalization of the centers of medium-sized towns and endowed with a “envelope of 5 billion euros” of which 20% went to trade, “a new chapter [est] in preparation by the Ministries of Ecological Transition and Territorial Cohesion”says M.me Gregory.