The boost to rural service stations – Le Point

The boost to rural service stations – Le Point

The aid for the modernization and diversification of independent service stations will be maintained at current levels in 2015 and 2016, said on Friday the office of the Secretary of State for Trade, Crafts and Consumer Affairs, Carole Delga.

“It is widely held to aid flow in 2015 and 2016 “he told AFP entourage Ms. Delga, evoking an amount” below 2.5 million. “

Until this year, the independent gas station attendants could do finance part of the cost of their diversification or put environmental standards by the fuel distribution Professional Committee (CPDC), which had a budget of 2.9 million euros. However, this structure, which swallows 28% of its budget on operating costs, will be suppressed by the government. Therefore a risk weighing on the continuity of the fuel distribution (read our article). Its missions will happily transferred in 2015 to the intervention fund for services, crafts and trade (FISAC), has 17 million.

2200 cases pending

The priority will be to educate 2,200 pending cases. From 1 January, new funding must be submitted as part of a call for projects whose specifications will be fixed by decree. This text being drafted, should allow service stations located in municipalities with more than 3000 inhabitants to benefit from Fisac, usually reserved for commercial users in rural areas.

Despite a “total period of education and making” 14 months on average, pointed to by the Court of Auditors in a summary published in October, professionals do not care too much about the takeover of aids by Fisac. With the CPDC, “the average time is four years today,” told AFP Aliou Sow, general secretary of the National Federation of the automobile crafts (FNAA), which explains this by the continued decline Public endowment.

“The records of stock that is there, it must be treated,” he added, including in its count of 500 applications for aid for closures of service stations that can not be supported by Fisac.

On this point, Ms. Delga firm said a consultation was underway with professionals and the Department of Ecology to “find a pocket credit “to meet the costly environmental and safety obligations. According FNAA, he remained in 2013 less than 6500 stations ‘traditional’ eligible for aid CPDC.