Investment stimulates demand and hence employment

The review of the recovery plan was started yesterday in the National Assembly with an appeal of the President of the Republic to the "coolness". Ad was aimed particularly at Patrick Devedjian, Eric Woerth and Christine Lagarde, the Ministers representing the collective budget for 2009 and the Bill of acceleration of investments before the deputies. It was also the members of the majority. Does not yield to the sirens of the recovery by the consumer, said Nicolas Sarkozy, because this would amount to "pour water in the sand". By opening the general debate, the Minister of the stimulus, he, recalled that the "red thread" of the Government action was the investment. "Investment stimulates demand and hence employment." It does not pledge the future. "On the contrary, it can strengthen our competitiveness," said Patrick Devedjian.

Preventive archaeology

On the mobilized means MPs will not move the lines. On the other hand, to revive as soon as possible the great work and activity in the building, the parliamentarians have ideas, encouraged by the concern to Patrick Devedjian "of overcoming barriers from sometimes practices inherited from our administrative culture and which are often unjustified constraints".

In this spirit, the Committee on Economic Affairs has adopted amendments to shorten the time of the excavations of preventive archaeology. At the initiative of Laure de La Raudière (UMP), the administration time to prescribe the completion of an archaeological diagnosis before work was reduced to twenty-one days (instead of a month) and one assigned to the realization of excavations has been reduced to two months (from three). Just before the start of the debate in the Chamber, the commission agreed a return to public operators of preventive archaeology, in the form of an increase in the levy which the product is intended. For operations under the Code of urbanism, the rate will increase to 0.4 in 2009 (compared to 0.3 currently) and then to 0.5 in 2010. For other sites, the amount of the levy will be inclined to 0.5 euro per square metre (against 0.41 today). This should generate between 11 and 15 million euros.

Ecoprêt at zero rate

Always on behalf of the emergency the crisis, the commission took a provision in the Bill housing, text parliamentary bottling costs. This was to allow housing agencies, from end of January, to acquire 30,000 private dwellings under construction, under the scheme of sales in the future state of completion, a measure announced by Nicolas Sarkozy in the fall.

The Government, for its part, has tabled several amendments to complete his plan. The écoprêt at rate zero on the work of renovation of housing may be available from February 1 (if the order appears to be current January) then the provision passed budget created a period of three months. Above all, the benefit of the écoprêt zero rates will be cannot be combined with the existing sustainable development tax credit (Windows, boilers, etc.), which was a great success. This rollup, who had been previously removed, will be limited to 2009 and 2010. Finally, an amendment said the additional investment will benefit the psychiatric hospitals, namely EUR 70 million for security equipment and the creation of units for difficult patients.