The Constitutional Council has given the green light. Imprisoned by more than 120 deputies and senators from the left, the Three Kings validated this Friday, with new reservations, the two texts of the law on purchasing power. With these two decisions issued on Friday, they also validated with “interpretation reservations” the suppression of the audiovisual license fee.
Regarding the draft law of emergency measures for the protection of purchasing power, the Constitutional Council has issued “unprecedented” reservations on the start-up of an LNG terminal in front of Le Havre and on the increase in the gas emission ceiling greenhouse effect of certain installations that produce electricity from fossil fuels.
A possible impact on the environment
For the Constitutional Council, these provisions are “likely to harm the environment.”
And “unless the Environmental Charter is ignored, these provisions may only be applied in the event of a serious threat to the security of the gas supply” and “threat to the security of the electricity supply of all or part of the national territory,” indicates the Council.
The Sages add that “the preservation of the environment must be sought in the same way as the other fundamental interests of the nation”, a “reservation of interpretation formulated in new terms”, they specify in a press release. Regarding the reactivation of power plants that use fossil fuels, the Council has set “an obligation to offset greenhouse gas emissions.”
The Rebel and Environmental deputies, at the origin of the appeal, considered that these provisions violated the 2004 Charter for the Environment, which is part of the preamble to the Constitution.
Reservations on the abolition of the fee
Regarding the reform of the bill on finances, the second part of the bill on purchasing power, the Constitutional Council, seized by the Nupes intergroup and the socialist senators, ruled that the abolition of the planned audiovisual canon “could affect the guarantee of the resources of the public audiovisual sector, which constitutes an element of its independence”.
The Three Wise Men urged the Government to “set the amount of these receipts so that companies and public audiovisual establishments can carry out public service missions.”
The deputies of the Nupes had judged, in their appeal, that the proposed alternative financing mechanism (allocation of part of the VAT) “does not ensure the security of the financing of audiovisual establishments.
On the other hand, the appeals on the monetization of the RTT and the Arenh cap were rejected.
Source: BFM TV
