The State Council rejected the request of a group of bakers to extend the tariff shield on electricity prices to the whole of this profession, which only applies to some of them, we learned this Friday from the plaintiffs’ lawyer.
The Union of Independent Artisan Bakers (Udabi) and seven bakers had invoked in summary judgment before the highest administrative court an urgent situation and imminent danger to the sustainability of their businesses.
They invoked the rise in electricity prices for bakers whose electric meter exceeds a power of 36 kilovolt-amps (kVa) and whose increase in the price of electricity is therefore not limited to 15% this year.
Insolvency
To justify its rejection, the Council of State considered that the application of the tariff shield did not present “the character of provisional safeguard measures in the very short term” and that the requesting companies were not “exposed in the short term to cessation of payment”.
Me Lèguevaques has clarified that he is studying “other solutions before the widely documented threat” of the disappearance of many bakeries “becomes a very unfortunate event”.
For bakers excluded from the tariff shield, the government has put in place a buffer that should relieve them from 15 to 20% of the electricity bill, which is paid by the State.
But for the group of bakers, its implementation is “so complex that even the electricity providers do not know how to use it”, and the beneficiaries must advance the costs “without being certain that one day they will receive the promised aid”.
Source: BFM TV
