The text was voted with the support of LR and RN by 217 votes for, 75 against and 18 abstentions. Senators had already passed a version of the bill and the two chambers will now have to find a compromise after the holidays.
Last vote before the summer break. The National Assembly adopted in first reading, on the night of Friday July 21 to Saturday July 22, the green industry bill. The text intends to reindustrialize the country while promoting ecological transition. In a sometimes overheated atmosphere, the project was approved with the support of LR and RN by 217 votes for, 75 against and 18 abstentions, at the end of the extraordinary session in July.
>> Establishment of factories, savings… What the “green industry” bill contains
In particular, the government is putting on the table a shortening of the time limits for setting up permits, and new tools to attract private savings. The Minister of the Economy Bruno Le Maire welcomed the“start the relocation” and the “decarbonization” industry, after “three decades of renunciation” according to him.
“Without enthusiasm”
If the Republicans voted for, it is “without enthusiasm”dropped Virginie Duby-Muller, pointing “blind spots on training and funding”, far from the very proactive policy of the American “Inflation Reduction Act”. Same position on the side of the National Rally, where Alexandre Loubet regretted that “the mountain gives birth to a mouse”. The left is divided between voting against (LFI and ecologists) and abstention (socialists and communists), all deploring “a missed date”. Liot’s independents also abstained.
The bill sets the objective of halving the average time required to obtain authorization to open a factory, currently estimated at 17 months. The objective is to encourage projects like those of the “big five” – wind, photovoltaic, heat pumps, batteries, carbon-free hydrogen. For some projects “of major national interest”, designated by decree, an exceptional procedure is provided for, giving control to the State. The executive emphasizes the mobilization of private savings, rather than public money. With a new product, the “future climate savings plan”, whose executive expects one billion euros in collection for the green industry. It was to be open to those under 18, an age raised to 21 on Friday evening in session.
The senators had already validated this bill in June. The two chambers will therefore try at the start of the school year to agree on a compromise version, with a view to its final adoption. The National Assembly should resume its work in the hemicycle the last week of September, for a short extraordinary session on the public finance programming bill. At the Luxembourg Palace, sessions will not resume until early October, after senatorial elections on September 24.