Europe 1 with AFP / Credits: MATHIEU THOMASSET / HANS LUCAS / HANS LUCAS VIA AFP 10:13 a.m., March 28, 2024

During the night from Wednesday to Thursday, the National Assembly adopted a bill which provides for the recovery of low-polluting cars sent to the scrapyard to rent them for the most precarious.

Parliament has definitively adopted an environmental bill allowing the recovery of low-polluting cars, intended for scrapping as part of the conversion bonus, to rent them at a lower cost to the most precarious. A unanimous vote by the National Assembly, on the night of Wednesday to Thursday, resulted in final adoption of the senatorial text, the deputies not having modified the version issued by the upper house.

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A “measure of general interest”

“The economic model of solidarity garages has been largely weakened by the implementation of the conversion bonus”, argued the rapporteur of the text, the ecologist Marie Pochon, highlighting the sending “each year to the scrapyard of thousands of vehicles, sometimes low polluting, sometimes without much mileage and usable. These vehicles “constituted the bulk of the donations to the solidarity garages which guaranteed mobility to those who, otherwise, give it up,” she added. The possibility of reusing them, via these garages, particularly in rural and isolated areas, is a “measure of general interest”, she argued.

The Minister for Transport Patrice Vergriete supported the text, judging that it was necessary to "ensure the social support which is essential to the success" of the ecological transition, taking into account "the particular needs and constraints of the most modest French people ".

The text provides that local authorities, through the mobility organizing authorities (AOM), can recover certain vehicles eligible for the conversion bonus, for the benefit of "socially disadvantaged" people, through vehicle rental systems at low price. This concerns gasoline cars classified as "Crit'Air 3" or better classified, which can be reused through "associations recognized as being of public utility or general interest" such as solidarity garages.