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France Food, Resource, and Commodity Assurance Act
A Westminster-Parliament adaptation of Historical Apoplexy
PARLEMENT DE LA RÉPUBLIQUE FRANÇAISE
XVIIe législature, 2026 Session
PROPOSITION DE LOI / DRAFT BILL
PRÉSENTÉE PAR ________ (Députés à l'Assemblée nationale) INTRODUCED BY ________ (Members of the National Assembly)
RELATIVE À L'ÉTABLISSEMENT DE L'AUTORITÉ FRANÇAISE D'ASSURANCE ALIMENTAIRE, EN RESSOURCES ET EN BIENS DE PREMIÈRE NÉCESSITÉ
CONCERNING THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE FRENCH FOOD, RESOURCE, AND COMMODITY ASSURANCE PROGRAMME
UNE LOI / AN ACT
LONG TITLE / TITRE LONG
LOI DE LA RÉPUBLIQUE FRANÇAISE RELATIVE À L'ASSURANCE PUBLIQUE DE L'ACCÈS À L'ALIMENTATION, AUX RESSOURCES, ET AUX BIENS DE PREMIÈRE NÉCESSITÉ AU COÛT DE PRODUCTION
AN ACT OF THE FRENCH REPUBLIC concerning the establishment of the French Food, Resource, and Commodity Assurance Authority (Autorité française d'assurance alimentaire, en ressources et en biens de première nécessité, "AFAARB") as a state establishment under the operational coordination of the Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations and Bpifrance, modelled on the French public-financial-institution tradition since 1816; the provision of universal at-cost access to a defined basket of staple food, household, and basic-commodity goods for every person ordinarily resident in the Republic, identified by numéro d'inscription au répertoire (NIR), distributed through the Caisse Nationale de l'Assurance Maladie (CNAM), the Caisse d'Allocations Familiales (CAF), the service-public.fr portal, France Connect, and France Identité; coordination with the 18 French régions through Regional Delivery Units; partnership with Banques Alimentaires, Restos du Coeur, Secours populaire français, and Croix-Rouge française for food-aid coordination; coordination with FranceAgriMer for agricultural-market integration; coordination with the SCOP-SCIC cooperative network under the Loi Hamon of 31 July 2014; explicit declination to establish any new French personal income tax (IR), corporate income tax (IS), value added tax (TVA), contribution sociale généralisée (CSG), excise duty (accise), or other French tax of any kind for the funding of the Authority; explicit preservation of the Banque de France, the Sécurité Sociale, Bpifrance, the Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations, FranceAgriMer, and all other existing French institutions; consistency with the Constitution de la Cinquième République (1958), particularly Article 1, and with the Préambule de la Constitution de 1946 carried forward by reference; consistency with the philosophical heritage of the Conseil National de la Résistance Programme of 15 March 1944, the Sécurité Sociale Ordonnance of 4 October 1945, the Accords de Matignon of 7-8 June 1936, and the Republican triple anchor of Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité; and provision for connected purposes.
LEGISLATIVE ROUTING NOTE
This Proposition de loi is structured for introduction in the Assemblée nationale under the standard French parliamentary routing (Article 39 of the Constitution). Following adoption by the Assemblée nationale, the text proceeds to the Sénat for deliberation in accordance with Article 45 (navette parlementaire) until adoption in identical terms by both chambers or resolution by Commission mixte paritaire (CMP). On final adoption, the text is subject to constitutional review by the Conseil constitutionnel before promulgation by the President of the Republic and publication in the Journal officiel de la République française (Article 10).
The institutional offices named in this Act (the Prime Minister, the Ministre de l'Économie, des Finances et de la Souveraineté industrielle et numérique, the Ministre de l'Agriculture, the Ministre du Travail, de la Santé, des Solidarités et des Familles, the Directeur général de la Caisse des Dépôts, the Directeur général de Bpifrance, and the Directeur général de la Caisse nationale d'allocations familiales) are cited by office, not by personal incumbent, to permit durable application across the 2024-2025 French political crisis Prime Minister rotation and any subsequent rotations.
FINDINGS
The Parlement de la République française, having considered the operational record of the Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations since 1816, of the Sécurité Sociale since 1945, of the Banques Alimentaires since 1984, of the Restos du Coeur since 1985, and of the French cooperative tradition through SCOP and SCIC under the Loi Hamon of 31 July 2014, finds:
(1) THE QUESTION HAS ALREADY BEEN SETTLED IN FRENCH
INSTITUTIONAL PRACTICE. The Sécurité Sociale created by
Ordonnance of 4 October 1945 settled the question of
whether the French Republic provides for the basic
welfare of its members through universal social
protection. The Conseil National de la Résistance
Programme of 15 March 1944 settled the question of
whether nationalised credit and energy are within the
French Republican tradition. The Accords de Matignon
of 7-8 June 1936 settled the question of whether
Republican economic policy guarantees a structural floor
of working-condition protections to French wage-earners.
The Préambule de la Constitution de 1946, carried
forward by the 1958 Constitution, settled the
constitutional status of the right to subsistence from
the collectivity, the right to health, the right to
material security, and the right to free public
education at all levels. The question this Act resolves
is the operational extension of these settled French
institutional commitments to the basic-needs commodity
layer at production cost.
(2) THE INSTITUTIONAL CHASSIS ALREADY EXISTS. The Caisse des
Dépôts et Consignations, founded by Louis XVIII in 1816
and now operating under public-financial-institution
legal regime with Commission de surveillance oversight,
is the natural French chartering chassis for sovereign-
anchored long-horizon programmes. Bpifrance, created
2013 as the joint venture of CDC and EPIC Bpifrance
Group, is the operational investment arm. The Sécurité
Sociale, with approximately EUR 550-600 billion annual
expenditure, is the most comprehensive universal-social-
protection chassis in continental Europe. CAF
administers means-tested transfers at household scale.
NIR identifies every French resident. service-public.fr,
France Connect, and France Identité are the operational
digital-state portals. No new institutions are required.
No new tax instruments are required. This Act
coordinates and extends what already exists.
(3) THE FOOD-AID DEMAND IS STRUCTURAL, NOT INCIDENTAL. The
Banques Alimentaires network supported 2.4 million
persons in 2024-2025 through 6,044 partner associations
and 79 BA, distributing 223 million meals. The Restos
du Coeur supported 1.3 million persons in the same
campaign and distributed 161 million meals. The Secours
populaire français and the Croix-Rouge française operate
parallel networks. The four primary food-aid networks
have grown continuously between 2020 and 2023 per
banquealimentaire.org/collectenationale, reflecting
structural growth in food-precarité across France that
incidental charitable response cannot resolve. This Act
coordinates with the existing food-aid networks rather
than replacing them; the food-aid networks become
delivery partners for the Authority rather than primary
structural responders.
(4) FRENCH AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVE CAPACITY EXCEEDS DOMESTIC
NUTRITIONAL DEMAND. France is the largest agricultural
producer in the European Union by value of output. The
leading EU producer of wheat, beef, milk, and wine.
Major producer of pork, poultry, sugar beet, maize,
fruit, vegetables, and oilseeds. French agricultural
output substantially exceeds French nutritional demand;
France is a net agricultural exporter at structural
scale. The constraint on universal at-cost food access
is therefore not productive capacity. The constraint is
distribution architecture. This Act resolves the
distribution-architecture constraint without altering
French productive capacity or private agricultural
ownership.
(5) THE AUTHORITY OPERATES AT PRODUCTION COST. Per Universal
Foundational Citation (G), this Act does not constitute
state ownership of the means of production. The
Authority contracts with French private producers,
French private distributors, French private logistics
operators, and French private processors at production
cost plus a reasonable distribution allowance. The
French private market for premium, luxury, custom,
regional, and specialty goods continues without
restriction. The model is the U.S. Defense Commissary
Agency under 10 USC Section 2484, operational at-cost
since 1867 (158 years of continuous evidence per
Universal Foundational Citation E). The French
historical parallel is the indigenous CDC-Bpifrance
public-financial tradition since 1816, applied to
commodity assurance.
(6) THE NIR IS THE LOAD-BEARING DISTRIBUTION IDENTIFIER. Per
the universal-distribution architecture of every French
social-protection programme since 1945, the 15-digit
Numéro d'Inscription au Répertoire (NIR, the Numéro de
Sécurité Sociale) is the universal French citizen
identifier assigned at birth or first registration. The
NIR coordinates with the CNAM (Caisse Nationale de
l'Assurance Maladie), the CAF, the carte Vitale
healthcare-distribution identifier, the France Connect
federated identity system, and the France Identité
mobile digital ID. The Authority leverages this existing
universal-distribution architecture rather than
creating a parallel identifier system.
(7) THE REGIONAL DELIVERY UNITS COORDINATE WITH THE 18
FRENCH RÉGIONS. The thirteen métropolitaines (Île-de-
France, Centre-Val de Loire, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté,
Normandie, Hauts-de-France, Grand Est, Pays de la
Loire, Bretagne, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, Occitanie,
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, Corse)
plus the five régions d'outre-mer (Guadeloupe, Martinique,
Guyane, La Réunion, Mayotte) operate eighteen Regional
Delivery Units coordinating with the Conseils régionaux
and with FranceAgriMer regional offices. The Regional
Delivery Units are the operational layer at which French
agricultural producers contract with the Authority and
at which French residents access the Authority's at-
cost commodity supply.
(8) THE PRÉAMBULE DE 1946 IS DIRECTLY APPLICABLE. The
Préambule de la Constitution de 1946, carried forward
by reference into the 1958 Constitution and routinely
applied by the Conseil constitutionnel, establishes:
"Tout être humain qui, en raison de son âge, de son
état physique ou mental, de la situation économique,
se trouve dans l'incapacité de travailler a le droit
d'obtenir de la collectivité des moyens convenables
d'existence." This Act is the operational extension of
this constitutional duty to the basic-needs commodity
layer. The constitutional anchor is not novel. The
operational extension is.
(9) THE CROIZAT FORMULATION REMAINS APPLICABLE. Ambroise
Croizat, communist Minister of Labour and Social
Security in the 1944-1945 Government, formulated the
operational doctrine of the 1945 Sécurité Sociale: "Ne
parlez plus jamais de charité. Parlez de droits
sociaux." ("Never speak of charity again. Speak of
social rights.") This French formulation is the direct
translation of the Augustus annona civica framing per
Universal Foundational Citation (E), applied
operationally on French ground in 1945. This Act
extends the Croizat formulation to the commodity-
assurance layer in 2026.
(10) THE FRONT POPULAIRE OF 1936 ESTABLISHED THE FRENCH
STRUCTURAL FLOOR. The Accords de Matignon of 7-8
June 1936, signed under the Front Populaire
government of Léon Blum, established the 40-hour
week, paid leave (congés payés), collective
contracts, and a structural wage increase. The Accords
established that the French Republican tradition
guarantees a structural floor of basic protections to
French wage-earners and households as a matter of
institutional commitment rather than charitable
dispensation. This Act extends the Matignon principle
to the basic-needs commodity layer.
(11) THE COOPERATIVE AND MUTUALIST TRADITION IS LOAD-
BEARING. 4,140 SCOP and SCIC operate in France 2024.
SCOP (62,523 jobs end-2025) and SCIC (17,548 jobs
end-2025) are the operational cooperative-enterprise
vehicles under the Loi Hamon of 31 July 2014. Crédit
Mutuel, Crédit Agricole, MAIF, and Macif are the
mutualist banking and insurance pillars. The Authority
coordinates with the existing cooperative network for
last-mile distribution and for procurement of
French-cooperative-produced commodity supply.
(12) UNIVERSAL FOUNDATIONAL CITATION (A): THE REPLICATION
THRESHOLD. Per Universal Foundational Citation (A),
the global humanoid-robotics ecosystem entered the
sub-USD-30,000 inflection during Q4 2025 through
Q2 2026. Casey Handmer's seven-blog-post replication-
threshold canon establishes the operational gradient
against which French productive-capacity policy must
now be calibrated. France's combination of the largest
EU civil nuclear fleet (56 reactors, approximately 65
percent of French electricity), the EPR2 six-reactor
programme at Penly + Gravelines + Bugey (forecast
EUR 72.8 billion 2020-base per EDF Board 18 December
2025, DINN audit Q1 2026), and the PPE 3 (Programmation
pluriannuelle de l'énergie, published 13 February
2026, covering 2025-2035) positions France as
particularly well-suited to operate at the post-
replication-threshold scale. This Act establishes the
food-and-commodity-assurance floor that catches French
workers and households when the replication-threshold
transition restructures French employment patterns
under Universal Foundational Citation (F). The
companion France Productive Capacity Authority and
Energy Security Act establishes the operational
productive-capacity arm.
(13) UNIVERSAL FOUNDATIONAL CITATION (B): THE ARITHMETIC.
Per Universal Foundational Citation (B), the U.S.
food-system arithmetic establishes that USD 32 billion
ends domestic hunger against USD 496 billion in
annual food-industry markup over production cost, a
15-times ratio. The French parallel: French
agricultural productive capacity substantially exceeds
French nutritional demand (France is a net
agricultural exporter at structural scale); the
French food-precarité affecting 2.4 million Banques
Alimentaires-supported persons and 1.3 million Restos
du Coeur-supported persons per the 2024-2025 campaign
cycle resolves at a marginal fraction of total
Sécurité Sociale annual expenditure (approximately
EUR 550-600 billion). The arithmetic is not contested.
The arithmetic is unread.
(14) UNIVERSAL FOUNDATIONAL CITATION (C): THE GRADIENT.
Per Universal Foundational Citation (C), the Marmot
quartet (Whitehall I and II, Sapolsky's Serengeti
baboons, Shively's cynomolgus macaques, Blackburn's
telomere research) establishes that hierarchy itself
kills across four research programmes, six decades,
and three species. The gap is the gradient, not the
deprivation. This Act removes the basic-needs
stratification at the layer at which the Marmot
quartet finds most aggressive damage to French
population health.
(15) UNIVERSAL FOUNDATIONAL CITATION (E): THE
OPERATIONAL HISTORICAL RECORD. Per Universal
Foundational Citation (E), at-cost civic provisioning
has 158 years of continuous evidence (U.S. military
commissary, 1867-present, 10 USC Section 2484); 400
years of Roman annona civica operation; the Tabula
Alimentaria Veleia (CIL XI 1147) survives at the
Parma Museum as the bronze documentary evidence of
the Nerva alimenta operational accounting. On French
ground: the Conseil National de la Résistance
Programme of 15 March 1944; the Sécurité Sociale
Ordonnance of 4 October 1945; the Accords de Matignon
of 7-8 June 1936; the Préambule de la Constitution de
1946. Ambroise Croizat's "Ne parlez plus jamais de
charité. Parlez de droits sociaux" is the load-
bearing French translation of the Augustus framing.
The mechanism is operationally validated.
DEFINITIONS
In this Act:
"Authority" means the Autorité française d'assurance alimentaire, en ressources et en biens de première nécessité (French Food, Resource, and Commodity Assurance Authority), abbreviated AFAARB, established under Title I of this Act as a state establishment under the operational coordination of the Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations and Bpifrance.
"AFAARB" means the Authority.
"CDC" means the Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations, the French public-financial institution founded 1816.
"Bpifrance" means the Banque publique d'investissement, the French public investment bank created 2013 as the joint venture of CDC and EPIC Bpifrance Group.
"NIR" means the 15-digit Numéro d'Inscription au Répertoire (Numéro de Sécurité Sociale), the universal French personal identifier assigned at birth or first registration.
"CNAM" means the Caisse Nationale de l'Assurance Maladie, the French universal-health-coverage administrator.
"CAF" means the Caisse d'Allocations Familiales, the French family-benefit and means-tested social-allowance administrator.
"FranceAgriMer" means the French national establishment for agricultural and fishery products.
"Régions" means the eighteen French régions: the thirteen métropolitaines (Île-de-France, Centre-Val de Loire, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, Normandie, Hauts-de-France, Grand Est, Pays de la Loire, Bretagne, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, Occitanie, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, Corse) and the five régions d'outre-mer (Guadeloupe, Martinique, Guyane, La Réunion, Mayotte).
"Regional Delivery Unit" means the operational arm of the Authority established in each French région under Title III.
"Ordinary resident" means a person whose principal residence is in the French Republic for purposes of French social- security registration under the rules of the CNAM and the CAF, including all French citizens ordinarily resident, European Union nationals exercising their freedom-of-movement rights, and third-country nationals holding a valid French residence document.
"At-cost" means production cost plus a reasonable distribution allowance, calculated on the model of the U.S. Defense Commissary Agency under 10 USC Section 2484 (production cost plus 5 percent surcharge for facility maintenance), adjusted for French operating conditions.
"PNRR" means the Plan National de Relance et de Résilience, the French Recovery and Resilience Plan under the EU Recovery and Resilience Facility.
"Loi Hamon" means the Loi n° 2014-856 du 31 juillet 2014 relative à l'économie sociale et solidaire.
"Préambule de 1946" means the Préambule de la Constitution du 27 octobre 1946, carried forward by reference into the Constitution de la Cinquième République of 4 October 1958 and applied by the Conseil constitutionnel.
TITLE I. THE AUTHORITY
ARTICLE 1. ESTABLISHMENT
There is established the Autorité française d'assurance alimentaire, en ressources et en biens de première nécessité (French Food, Resource, and Commodity Assurance Authority, "AFAARB"), as a state establishment under the operational coordination of the Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations and Bpifrance, accountable to the Parlement de la République française through the Commission de surveillance of the Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations.
ARTICLE 2. MISSION
The mission of the Authority is to ensure universal at-cost access to a defined basket of staple food, household, and basic-commodity goods for every person ordinarily resident in the French Republic. The Authority operates as the distribution-coordination chassis. The Authority does not own or operate French farms, French processing facilities, French logistics infrastructure, or French retail outlets.
ARTICLE 3. GOVERNANCE
The Authority is governed by a Conseil d'administration of fifteen members:
(1) The Directeur général de la Caisse des Dépôts et
Consignations, ex officio, who chairs the Conseil;
(2) The Directeur général de Bpifrance, ex officio; (3) The Directeur général de la Caisse Nationale
d'Allocations Familiales, ex officio;
(4) The Directeur général de la Caisse Nationale de
l'Assurance Maladie, ex officio;
(5) The Directeur général de FranceAgriMer, ex officio; (6) The Directeur général de l'Institut national de la
statistique et des études économiques, ex officio;
(7) Three administrators appointed by the Assemblée
nationale;
(8) Two administrators appointed by the Sénat; (9) One administrator appointed by the Conseil économique,
social et environnemental;
(10) One administrator appointed by ESS France as the
umbrella institutional voice of the économie sociale
et solidaire;
(11) One administrator appointed by the federated voice of
the Banques Alimentaires, Restos du Coeur, Secours
populaire français, and Croix-Rouge française jointly.
Administrators serve six-year terms. The Conseil meets at least eight times per year. The Conseil's deliberations are public except where the Commission de surveillance authorises confidentiality for specific commercial-supply matters.
ARTICLE 4. RELATION TO EXISTING INSTITUTIONS
The Authority does not replace, supersede, or absorb the Banque de France, the Sécurité Sociale, the CDC, Bpifrance, the CAF, the CNAM, FranceAgriMer, the SCOP-SCIC cooperative network, the four primary food-aid networks (Banques Alimentaires, Restos du Coeur, Secours populaire français, Croix-Rouge française), or any other existing French institution. The Authority coordinates with these institutions on the terms set out in this Act.
TITLE II. UNIVERSAL AT-COST ASSURANCE
ARTICLE 5. PERSONS COVERED
Every person ordinarily resident in the French Republic, identified by NIR, is entitled to at-cost access to the Authority's basket of staple food, household, and basic- commodity goods. Entitlement is universal, not means-tested. Coverage extends to all French citizens ordinarily resident, all European Union nationals exercising their freedom-of- movement rights, and all third-country nationals holding a valid French residence document.
ARTICLE 6. THE BASKET
The Authority shall determine the composition of the basket of staple food, household, and basic-commodity goods by règlement of the Conseil d'administration following public consultation. The basket shall include:
(a) Staple food products at French nutritional baseline,
coordinated with FranceAgriMer and the Programme
national nutrition santé (PNNS);
(b) Household basic-commodity goods including cleaning
supplies, personal hygiene products, basic textiles,
and basic kitchen equipment;
(c) School-children supplies including writing materials,
paper products, and basic equipment for the school year;
(d) Energy-essentials supplies relevant to household basic
operation;
(e) Such other categories as the Conseil d'administration
determines necessary for basic-needs commodity access.
The basket is reviewed at minimum annually.
ARTICLE 7. AT-COST PRICING
The Authority operates at production cost plus a reasonable distribution allowance, calculated on the U.S. Defense Commissary Agency model under 10 USC Section 2484 (production cost plus 5 percent surcharge), adjusted for French operating conditions. No profit margin is added at any layer of the Authority's distribution chain. Private producers, distributors, processors, and logistics operators contracting with the Authority are reimbursed at cost-plus- allowance terms, leaving them free to compete in the open French private market for premium, luxury, custom, regional, and specialty goods.
ARTICLE 8. DISTRIBUTION CHASSIS
Authority distribution operates through:
(a) The eighteen Regional Delivery Units established under
Title III;
(b) Direct-to-household electronic-credit allocation via
the carte Vitale and France Connect / France Identité
digital portals;
(c) Distribution partnerships with the Banques Alimentaires,
Restos du Coeur, Secours populaire français, and
Croix-Rouge française for in-person basket pickup at
existing food-aid locations;
(d) Cooperative-network partnerships with SCOP, SCIC, and
the mutualist banking and insurance pillars for last-
mile distribution where appropriate.
TITLE III. REGIONAL DELIVERY UNITS
ARTICLE 9. ESTABLISHMENT
There are established eighteen Regional Delivery Units of the Authority, one in each French région: thirteen métropolitaines and five régions d'outre-mer per the definition in this Act.
ARTICLE 10. REGIONAL DELIVERY UNIT FUNCTIONS
Each Regional Delivery Unit:
(a) Contracts on behalf of the Authority with French private
agricultural producers, French private processors, and
French private logistics operators in the région;
(b) Coordinates with the Conseil régional and with the
FranceAgriMer regional office;
(c) Coordinates with the regional networks of the four
primary food-aid organisations;
(d) Reports to the Authority's Conseil d'administration
quarterly on regional operational status;
(e) Maintains a public regional inventory of contracted
producers, distributors, and processors.
ARTICLE 11. DÉPARTEMENTS D'OUTRE-MER
The five Regional Delivery Units in the régions d'outre-mer (Guadeloupe, Martinique, Guyane, La Réunion, Mayotte) operate with additional logistics provision for transatlantic and Indian Ocean supply chain, including coordination with the existing Octroi de mer regime where applicable and with French DROM-specific agricultural support programmes. The Authority's Conseil d'administration shall make règlements specific to the DROM logistics environment.
TITLE IV. FOOD-AID NETWORK COORDINATION
ARTICLE 12. RECOGNITION OF THE FOUR PRIMARY FOOD-AID
NETWORKS
The Parliament recognises:
(a) The Banques Alimentaires (79 BA, 6,044 partner
associations, 223 million meals served, 2.4 million
persons supported per the 2024-2025 campaign, founded
1984);
(b) The Restos du Coeur (1.3 million persons, 161 million
meals per the 2024-2025 campaign, founded 1985 by
Coluche);
(c) The Secours populaire français; (d) The Croix-Rouge française;
as the four primary food-aid organisations of France. These organisations are not replaced or absorbed by this Act. The Authority coordinates with these organisations as delivery partners.
ARTICLE 13. COORDINATION FRAMEWORK
The Authority establishes Memoranda of Understanding with each of the four primary food-aid organisations setting out:
(a) The terms of the in-person basket-pickup partnership; (b) The volume of Authority-supplied commodity provision
routed through each organisation's existing operational
network;
(c) The procedure by which Authority operational support
augments rather than displaces existing food-aid
organisational autonomy;
(d) The procedure by which Authority data on basket pickup
is shared with the organisations for their own
operational planning, subject to French data-protection
law and CNIL oversight.
ARTICLE 14. STRUCTURAL DEMAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
The Parliament acknowledges that the four primary food-aid organisations have absorbed structural growth in French food-precarité demand between 2020 and 2023 (per banquealimentaire.org/collectenationale) at scale incommensurate with their charitable-organisation founding mandate. The Authority assumes the structural-floor function that the four organisations were never institutionally designed to assume, leaving the organisations free to recover their original supplementary-aid mission.
TITLE V. COOPERATIVE AND MUTUALIST INTEGRATION
ARTICLE 15. RECOGNITION OF THE FRENCH COOPERATIVE AND
MUTUALIST TRADITION
The Parliament recognises the French cooperative and mutualist tradition under the Loi Hamon of 31 July 2014 (Loi n° 2014-856) on the économie sociale et solidaire, including:
(a) The 4,140 SCOP and SCIC operating in France 2024 per
ess-france.org;
(b) The SCOP (Sociétés Coopératives et Participatives) with
62,523 jobs end-2025;
(c) The SCIC (Sociétés Coopératives d'Intérêt Collectif)
with 17,548 jobs end-2025 and EUR 1.6 billion
cumulative revenue;
(d) The mutualist banking and insurance pillars (Crédit
Mutuel, Crédit Agricole, MAIF, Macif);
as load-bearing French institutional resources for the operational implementation of this Act.
ARTICLE 16. COOPERATIVE PROCUREMENT PRIORITY
The Authority shall apply procurement priority to SCOP and SCIC enterprises in basket contracting, all other commercial terms being substantially equal. The Authority shall report annually to Parliament on the share of basket procurement contracted through SCOP and SCIC vehicles.
ARTICLE 17. MUTUALIST DISTRIBUTION COORDINATION
The Authority shall enter into operational coordination agreements with Crédit Mutuel, Crédit Agricole, MAIF, and Macif for distribution coordination in rural and péri-urbain zones where these mutualist networks have established operational presence.
TITLE VI. FUNDING
ARTICLE 18. NO NEW TAXATION
This Act does not establish:
(a) Any new French personal income tax (impôt sur le
revenu, IR);
(b) Any new French corporate income tax (impôt sur les
sociétés, IS);
(c) Any new French value added tax (taxe sur la valeur
ajoutée, TVA) or change to existing TVA rates;
(d) Any new French contribution sociale généralisée (CSG)
or change to existing CSG rates;
(e) Any new French excise duty (accise); (f) Any new French wealth tax, transfer tax, or other tax
of any kind.
The Authority funds its operations through the channels specified in Article 19.
ARTICLE 19. FUNDING CHANNELS
The Authority is funded through four coordinated channels:
(a) State-budget appropriation by the Parlement de la
République française within the Projet de loi de
finances annual cycle, on the proposal of the Ministre
de l'Économie, des Finances et de la Souveraineté
industrielle et numérique;
(b) Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations operational
coordination credit lines authorised by the Commission
de surveillance under standard CDC public-financial-
institution terms;
(c) PNRR / France Relance / NextGenerationEU coordinated
investment within the existing EUR 40.3 billion PNRR
envelope and the EUR 100 billion France Relance
envelope, to the extent the European Commission and
the relevant French ministries determine the Authority's
operations consistent with the existing approved PNRR
milestone framework;
(d) At-cost revenue generated by the Authority's
distribution operations.
ARTICLE 20. REVENUE RING-FENCING
Revenue generated by the Authority's at-cost distribution operations is ring-fenced for reinvestment in the Authority's operational continuity. Surpluses, if any, are remitted to the CDC for application to subsequent years' Authority operations or to expansion of the basket coverage under Article 6.
TITLE VII. DATA, OVERSIGHT, AND ACCOUNTABILITY
ARTICLE 21. CNIL OVERSIGHT
All Authority data processing is subject to the Commission nationale de l'informatique et des libertés (CNIL) under Loi Informatique et Libertés (Loi n° 78-17 du 6 janvier 1978, as amended). Authority data on basket pickup, NIR- linked entitlement records, and operational coordination data with the four primary food-aid organisations are processed under standard CNIL data-protection terms.
ARTICLE 22. PARLIAMENTARY ACCOUNTABILITY
The Authority reports annually to the Parlement de la République française through:
(a) An annual report to the Assemblée nationale Commission
des finances and the Sénat Commission des finances;
(b) An annual report to the Assemblée nationale Commission
des affaires sociales and the Sénat Commission des
affaires sociales;
(c) An annual report to the Conseil économique, social et
environnemental;
(d) An open public report published on service-public.fr.
ARTICLE 23. COUR DES COMPTES OVERSIGHT
The Cour des comptes shall audit the Authority's operations annually under standard French public-finance oversight terms, with audit reports published.
TITLE VIII. CONSTITUTIONAL POSTURE
ARTICLE 24. CONSISTENCY WITH THE CONSTITUTION
This Act is consistent with:
(a) Article 1 of the Constitution de la Cinquième
République, which declares France an indivisible,
secular, democratic, and social Republic;
(b) Article 34 of the Constitution, which reserves to
Parliament the fundamental principles of the right to
work, trade union law, and social security;
(c) The Préambule de la Constitution de 1946, carried
forward by reference into the 1958 Constitution and
applied by the Conseil constitutionnel, particularly
the clauses establishing the right to subsistence from
the collectivity, the right to health, the right to
material security, and the right to free public
education at all levels.
ARTICLE 25. REPUBLICAN HERITAGE
This Act is consistent with the philosophical heritage of:
(a) The Conseil National de la Résistance Programme of
15 March 1944;
(b) The Sécurité Sociale Ordonnance of 4 October 1945
and the operational doctrine formulated by Ambroise
Croizat: "Ne parlez plus jamais de charité. Parlez
de droits sociaux";
(c) The Accords de Matignon of 7-8 June 1936 under the
Front Populaire government of Léon Blum;
(d) The Republican triple anchor of Liberté, Égalité,
Fraternité;
(e) The Lumières (Voltaire, Rousseau, Diderot,
Montesquieu, d'Alembert) as the intellectual canon
of French constitutional governance;
(f) The 19th-century French social-conscience canon (Victor
Hugo, Émile Zola, George Sand);
(g) The mutualist and cooperative tradition (Charles
Fourier, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Marcel Sembat).
TITLE IX. TARGET COMMENCEMENT, AND TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS
ARTICLE 26. TARGET COMMENCEMENT DATE
The Authority shall commence operations on 14 juillet following the year of the entry into force of this Act, which is the Fête nationale française commemorating the storming of the Bastille on 14 juillet 1789. This date is selected to mark the republican-founding-document anniversary on which the Authority's universal-at-cost commodity assurance commences operational delivery to every person ordinarily resident in the French Republic.
ARTICLE 27. TRANSITIONAL ARRANGEMENTS
(1) The Conseil d'administration of the Authority shall be
constituted within ninety days of the entry into force
of this Act.
(2) The eighteen Regional Delivery Units shall be
constituted within one hundred eighty days of the entry
into force of this Act.
(3) Memoranda of Understanding with the four primary food-
aid organisations shall be concluded within two hundred
seventy days of the entry into force of this Act.
(4) Basket composition shall be determined by Conseil
d'administration règlement within three hundred sixty
days of the entry into force of this Act.
ARTICLE 28. REPORTING
The first annual report of the Authority to Parliament shall be published not later than fourteen months after the commencement date specified in Article 26.
TITLE X. CONNECTED PURPOSES AND SHORT TITLE
ARTICLE 29. SHORT TITLE
This Act may be cited as the France Food, Resource, and Commodity Assurance Act (Loi française d'assurance alimentaire, en ressources et en biens de première nécessité).
ARTICLE 30. RELATED LEGISLATION
This Act is the French companion to the France Productive Capacity Authority and Energy Security Act, drafted contemporaneously and filed at imran.theamanuensis.com/ historical-apoplexy/compendium. The two Acts are operationally coordinated through the Conseil d'administration of the AFAARB and the equivalent governance body of the productive-capacity Authority.
ARTICLE 31. CONNECTED PURPOSES
For purposes connected with the foregoing.
END OF ACT
This draft is prepared by Imran Cooper, The Amanuensis, as the French national adaptation in the Historical Apoplexy AD legislative compendium (Cooper, Historical Apoplexy 2025-2026, Papers I through X). Compendium home: imran.theamanuensis.com/historical-apoplexy/compendium.