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A Senate committee rejected a cost-price healthy food bill, while an identical Assembly version faces debate on 3 December.
A bill requiring French supermarkets to sell healthy foods at cost price is under examination in the Senate, but a Senate committee has rejected the text. The bill sets a target of 80 healthy food products sold without markup.
An identical bill has been filed at the National Assembly by deputy Boris Tavernier. The Assembly is scheduled to consider it during an ecologist niche on 3 December.
A collective of 42 associations and NGOs backs the initiative. Supporters point to price trends, with fresh fruit and vegetable prices in France up 54% and 62% since 2015.
The committee decision applies to the Senate text, while the Assembly bill follows a separate parliamentary path.
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Associations back cost-price healthy food initiative across France
A collective of 42 associations and NGOs supports the cost-price healthy food initiative, which would require supermarkets to sell healthy products without markup. Supporters point to fresh fruit and vegetable prices in France, which have risen 54% and 62% since 2015, as evidence of growing pressure on healthy eating costs. The identical bill at the National Assembly is scheduled for debate on 3 December.
Senate committee rejects bill while Assembly takes up identical text
The Senate committee's rejection applies to the version examined in the upper chamber, which targets 80 healthy food products sold without markup. Meanwhile, Boris Tavernier's identical bill at the National Assembly is set for consideration during an ecologist niche on 3 December. Both texts pursue the same objective through different chambers, and their outcomes are procedurally separate.