“It seems to me that we have here a welcome measure of simplification, extremely popular and entirely logical,” declared the Minister for Small and Medium Enterprises, Véronique Louwagie.
Published on 14/01/2025 19:07
Updated on 14/01/2025 19:16
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Pasta, butter, flour purchased in “restaurant vouchers” at the supermarket: this possibility, granted as an exception since Covid to support purchasing power, has been extended until the end of 2026 by Parliament. After the National Assembly at the end of 2024, the Senate very largely adopted, by show of hands, this bill aimed at extending the use of meal vouchers for food shopping at the supermarket.
This text was to be examined in mid-December in the Senate if Michel Barnier's government had not been overthrown. But censorship pushed back the debate. Consequence: since January 1, 2025, it is no longer possible to buy food products that need to be prepared in the supermarket, unlike directly consumable products such as sandwiches or salads. Hence the need to legislate quickly to restore this exemption. And the senators did it, taking care to adopt the text in the same terms as the deputies, which puts an end to the parliamentary process and will allow rapid promulgation.
“It seems to me that we have here a welcome measure of simplification, extremely popular and entirely logical”said the Minister for Small and Medium Enterprises, Véronique Louwagie. She said she was satisfied with this final adoption which will make it possible to “end as quickly as possible to the situation of uncertainty and embarrassment that consumers are experiencing today”.
