These two amendments will be sent to the Social Affairs Committee which should integrate them directly into the bill, debated in the Chamber from next Monday.
Against the advice of elected LREM members, the deputies voted on Monday to remove part of the fees for the termination of telephone or internet subscription contracts, during the examination in committee of the emergency bill for the power to purchase.
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In the Economic Affairs Committee, the deputies adopted two amendments by LR Julien Dive, supported by LFI, in quick succession, before the bill arrived on July 18 in the hemicycle. When a consumer terminates a telephone or internet contract of more than one year before expiry, he must pay the remaining monthly payments for the first year and 25% of the remaining charges for the second year. The first amendment proposes to remove the fee for the second year. It’s a “amendment which directly gives purchasing power to the French“Said Julien Dive, LR deputy for Aisne.
Debate in the hemicycle from next Monday
On the other side of the political spectrum, the rebellious Matthias Tavel saw “a common sense step in the right direction“. The rapporteur Sandra Marsaud (LREM, now Renaissance) warned against “several difficulties“legal and the risk of”opportunistic behavior likely to destabilize the relevant market». «It would call into question any type of contract, any type of commitment. It’s a real revolution“, she warned. Adopted under the same conditions, the second LR amendment provides for the exemption from all costs of terminating a telephone or internet contract for consumers registered in the over-indebtedness procedure and who give the “concrete proof».
LFI Sophia Chikirou praised a measure of “social progress“. The LREM rapporteur Sandra Marsaud this time issued a “advice of wisdom” for a measure that “seems useful“, while recalling that today “only the application fees can remain payableof consumers in a situation of over-indebtedness. LREM deputy Frédéric Descrozaille expressed his doubts, believing that the two amendments risk causing a “price increase» telephone subscriptions. For reasons specific to this text, these two amendments will be sent to the Social Affairs Committee, which should integrate them directly into the bill, debated in the Chamber from next Monday.