The government intends to create a “future climate savings plan” for miners to finance economically virtuous projects, according to a draft law on green industry obtained on Monday by the online media Context and consulted by AFP . The creation of this savings product was one of the 29 proposals presented to Bercy on April 3 by elected officials and industrialists from five working groups reflecting on the future law.
According to the draft law obtained by Context, the government is taking up this idea to direct private savings towards ecologically virtuous projects. “The opening of the future climate savings plan is reserved for natural persons under the age of 18 and residing in France”, he specifies. The money paid into these savings plans will be “allocated to the acquisition of financial securities contributing to the financing of the productive economy and the ecological transition”, adds the text.
Contacted by AFP, the Ministry of the Economy did not wish to confirm that this savings product will indeed appear in the bill, indicating that “no communication to the press” was planned before the finalization of this last. As it stands, the document does not specify the cap on this savings plan, or whether regular payments will be required. The “opening conditions” and the “management methods” of the plan will be fixed “by regulation”, he specifies.
However, it indicates that it will not be possible to make withdrawals before the majority of the holder, except to cause the closing of the booklet. The only exception provided would be the finding of a disability. On the other hand, once of age, the holder will be able to make “partial withdrawals of sums or values” without leading to “the closure of the future climate savings plan”, it is specified.
In order to encourage parents to open such a plan very early on for their children, the government provides “for any opening of a future climate savings plan during the holder’s year of birth”, a “matching” of the State, the amount of which will be “determined by order of the Minister responsible for the economy”. Among the 29 proposals presented at Bercy in early April, there was also the idea of replacing the current Sustainable and Solidarity Development Booklet (LDDS) with a “Green Booklet”. This proposal does not appear in the 13 articles of the bill consulted by AFP.
