“The motorist is plucking” Corinne Lepage is the operation of a collective action launched against the French motorway companies and tolls, already challenged in several official reports-including the Court of Accounts for its above-inflation increases.
This Friday in The Parisian and RMC, former Environment Minister explained his approach. “According to our estimates, the current price is at least 20% higher than it should be,” said she detailed. The profession of lawyer has approached lawyers Actioncivile.com Site to mount this action whose aim is “to require motorway companies the right price of the toll ticket”.
In practice, drivers can this Friday until June next fill in a form on the website and request a refund of 20%. The condition is to have borrowed the A1, A6, A7, A9 or A13 (the oldest of five) during the last five years and have kept the toll ticket.
Fir sees a “good idea”
The initiators of this action plan to make a request for mediation with the companies. But if it does not result in a period of one month, appeals will be filed with the courts. “We hope to bring together tens of thousands of applications, perhaps up to 50,000,” said Corinne Lepage in Paris .
On iTélé Friday morning, Finance Minister Michel Sapin immediately felt that this collective action against the motorway companies was a “good idea”.
A showdown with the state
For these companies, it is precisely not the first attack: they are already engaged in a standoff with the state for several months. The point of having filed an appeal with the State Council, the government had suspended the increase in toll rates. Ministers also set up a working group on the future of highway concessions.
The Association of French motorway companies said Friday that “the record released not based on any legal or economic reality” and emphasized that no highway is “amortized for accounting.” In France, the dealers are mostly subsidiaries of giant BTP Eiffage and Vinci. They exploit the 11.882km 9048 French motorway.
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