You may be able to resume a normal life… The bill, tabled on September 30, by Senator Horizons Pierre-Jean Verzelen to ban cold calling has just been adopted by the Senate.
“Are you tired of being bothered all the time by calls selling you products or services that don't interest you? », questioned this senator from Aisne, from the group Les Indépendants, in a video published on X (formerly Twitter).
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“I propose reversing the principle: purely and simply prohibiting telephone canvassing. Unless the consumer takes the step of sending their number to a company because they are interested in an offer,” he explained in his video.
Pierre-Jean Verzelen defended his bill by taking the example of “our elders” who are “very targeted” and who end up “ignoring essential calls” or “being victims of fraud”.
Ineffectiveness of the “Bloctel” system
According to TF1, in addition to the consumer's consent, other exceptions can be considered for this ban: when the canvassing “takes place within the framework of the execution of a current contract and is related to the subject of this contract » and when it “concerns the supply of newspapers, periodicals or magazines”. According to the national channel, this measure has already been implemented in Germany, the United Kingdom and Portugal.
“This text aims to change gear” on “a subject which, quietly, is part of the daily lives of our fellow citizens and which exasperates around 65 million of them”, launched the parliamentarian, to justify his approach.
Many elected officials noted in particular the “inefficiency” of the “Bloctel” system, a telephone opposition list that came into force in 2016, which allows consumers, at their request, to be spared canvassing. But if more than six million French people are registered, “this represents only 9% of French people and 10% of telephone lines”, noted the centrist rapporteur Olivia Richard, mobilized against these “daily irritants which poison our lives”.
The bill has now been sent to the National Assembly.
