A bill soon studied in the National Assembly could lead to the end of uncounted telephone canvassing. A revolutionary measure which should delight and relieve more than one consumer.
You have surely already found yourself in this situation. The phone rings, you answer, and at the end of the line, a salesperson offers you to subscribe to an 'advantageous' energy contract or another pushes you to change your mobile operator. In this situation, either you have time to answer respectfully that you are not interested, or you hang up without bothering to say a word.
Telephone can be annoying, especially when it occurs at binding hours. Thus, since 2022, the State has taken measures and set the days and schedules during which calls are authorized. Therefore, you are able to be approached from Monday to Friday, except public holidays, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and from 2 p.m. to 8 p.m. In addition, the frequency of demarchages of the same consumer is limited to 4 times every 30 days, specifies the site of the Ministry of the Economy. But why not imagine an end of telephone canvassing in France?
-Prohibition of canvassing: a future law to be discussed
In any case, this is what will be played from Monday, January 27 in the National Assembly. Following a bill tabled last October by the deputy EPR (Ensemble for the Republic) Thomas Cazenave, practice may well be prohibited. The text of the law aims first of all to fight “Against all fraud to public aid” in particular those linked to energy renovation and ecological energies, ensures Le Figaro. In a second step, he takes up the basics of a baptized law “For a consented canvassing “adopted unanimously by the Senate on November 14.
A text that offers “The prohibition to canvilly canvass a consumer who has not previously expressed their consent to be the subject of commercial prospecting by this means (except in the execution of an in progress contract)”. Concretely, the idea is to prioritize consumer consent. Since today it is up to him to report his opposition to be called when he is in communication. Thus, the future law would like the consumer to be able to give their consent beforehand to be called.
Does telephone canvassing live its last hours? For the moment nothing has been played. The deputies will face the concerns of the direct sales sector which already announces massive job losses if the future law were to come into force. One thing is certain, thousands of French people could be satisfied with the end of this practice. In the event of the adoption of the law, consumer consent may be requested like promotional emails. That is to say via a check box on a website to authorize the company to contact you.
