The CPME details its 80 administrative simplification proposals for businesses

These suggestions addressed to the government, which is preparing a simplification bill, can be implemented "at zero cost to public finances", affirms the second employers' organization in France in a press release.

To stop “normative inflation” – nearly 10.000 decrees and regulatory orders published in 2022, according to the CPME – it asks to “freeze the number of pages of the 62 existing Codes”: Labor Code, Public Procurement Code. ..

The CPME also calls for a systematic re-examination of texts more than ten years old, in order to repeal possible “obsolete laws”.

On the aspect of social dialogue, the employers' organization wants to "reduce the frequency of meetings of the Social and Economic Committee (CSE)" and allow them to be held by videoconference, reduce the number of members of this body and reduce the number of hours of delegation granted to members of the CSE "except in companies in which social events justify it".

She therefore proposes to make a certain number of hours of delegation optional, devoted to "less strategic subjects: social and cultural activities, individual requests from employees, administrative questions."

In terms of digitalization, the CPME is calling for "dematerializing certain administrative procedures in town halls and prefectures" and for setting up a national "electronic safe", which would centralize all the data transmitted by companies to the administration and their would avoid having to re-enter information already communicated in the past.

In environmental matters, she calls for "a national list of professionals entitled to preferential pricing for parking in low-emission zones (ZFE)" and wants information on the environmental characteristics and quality of products to be both simplified and harmonized.

This list of requests is published a little more than two weeks after the close of an online consultation, launched by the government to prepare its simplification bill.

The approximately 30.000 participants, some business leaders, advocated as a priority for the simplification of approaches and procedures. Among their demands then come the simplification of standards, then that of online services, social rights and finally labor law.