This will be the prefect of decide he said

The work of the Sunday advance. The publication of the Decree of the Act that the Minister of labour, Xavier Darcos, is committed to what has no particular innovations is more than a matter of days. And already a good part of the Act of immediate application comes into force.

As the prefects of the Nord - Pas-de-Calais to Lille and Paca to Marseille last week, had done in the Ile-de-France signed yesterday the order delineating the "urban unit" of Paris, i.e. the list of the Commons to request the creation of perimeters of exceptional use of consumption. The chip is intended to legalize the Sunday opening of large commercial areas such as campaign Plan near Marseille, or Thiais Village in the Val-de-Marne. They opened in the total illegality or with illegal prefectural orders, or, as in Thiais, through a tripartite Charter (prefect, common, merchants).

The number of communes is debate

In Ile-de-France, such as Marseille or Lille, the boundaries of the urban areas more of 1 million inhabitants was strictly on the basis of the Census of population, said to the cabinet of Xavier Darcos. The field is not less wide. In Ile-de-France, it includes the capital, all cities small Crown (Hauts-de-Seine, Seine-Saint-Denis, Val-de-Marne), and some of those great Crown, approximately 400 Commons. At their municipal councils to ask, if they wish, the creation of a chip to the prefect of the Department. But the number of the involved communes already begins to debate.

"In the Ile-de-France, Reeve goes far beyond the spirit of the law, which was to legalize existing situations for a few commercial areas", said Eric Scherrer, CFTC Trade Federation. Cabinet of Xavier Darcos is out: "It is with the chip to treat existing uses, step of generating new ones." A prefect could not accept the creation of a smart if the commercial area was used to open Sunday and attracted an important flow of customers also came. "Translation: only commercial areas that had chosen to break the law or benefited from derogation will be affected. Or even. At Thiais, Mayor UMP Richard Dell' Dell'agnola will propose the creation of a chip for Thiais Village, which meets the criteria as early as late September. He plans to do the same for Belle Epine, one of the largest French trade centres, so far closed Sunday, if merchants request. "This will be the prefect of decide," he said. Which augurs discussions on interpretations of the law.

The record will be difficult for some mayors left to manage. Example in the northern region. The cities of Tourcoing and Wattrelos, but cross-border and subject to the intense Belgian commercial competition, hear nothing request. The Socialist Mayor of Roubaix, Rene Vandierendonck, yet took position on a subject which seems to embarrass him, between principle and taking account of the difficulties of local trade. His neighbour in the Mayor of Halluin, Socialist, is also one of the few to have chosen the Sunday opening: Belgian competition is direct at the other end of main street.

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