================================================================================ FRANCE PRODUCTIVE CAPACITY AUTHORITY AND ENERGY SECURITY ACT Parlement de la République française, XVIIe législature, 2026 Session Prepared by Imran Cooper, The Amanuensis May 2026 VERIFICATION NOTES: THIS BILL IS THE FRANCE ADAPTATION OF THE PRODUCTIVE CAPACITY AUTHORITY ARCHITECTURE, ANCHORED ON THE CAISSE DES DÉPÔTS ET CONSIGNATIONS (1816) AND BPIFRANCE (2013), WITH ENERGY SECURITY ELEVATED AS A CO-EQUAL TITLE ANCHORED ON FULLY NATIONALISED EDF (2023), THE EPR2 SIX-REACTOR PROGRAMME AT PENLY + GRAVELINES + BUGEY, AND THE PPE 3 PUBLISHED 13 FEBRUARY 2026: The France Productive Capacity Authority and Energy Security Act is the French national adaptation of the architecture proposed at federal scale for the United States (three variants), at national scale for India, the United Kingdom, Poland (with energy security), Ukraine (with reconstruction and energy security), Indonesia (Danantara-coordinated), Taiwan (with energy resilience), Latvia (Altum-chassis, with energy security), Lithuania (ILTE-chassis, with energy security), and Estonia (KredEx-state-foundation-chassis, with energy security and X-Road digital-state distribution), and at sub-national scale for Alaska. The sibling drafts are filed contemporaneously at imran.theamanuensis.com/historical- apoplexy/compendium. The France adaptation is distinguished by four structural features. First, the Authority is structured on the operational chassis of the **Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations** (CDC, founded 1816 by Louis XVIII), the French public-financial institution accountable to Parliament through the Commission de surveillance. The CDC is the sovereign-anchored chartering chassis; **Bpifrance** (created 2013 as the joint venture of CDC + EPIC Bpifrance Group, the "EUR 54 billion operator" of France 2030 per france2030.ai May 2026) is the operational investment arm. Sources: caissedesdepots.fr/resultats-et-rapports-annuels; bpifrance.com/our-history/; france2030.ai/analysis/ bpifrance-role-france-2030/ (accessed 2026-05-16). Second, **ENERGY SECURITY** is elevated as a co-equal Title, anchored on EDF (Électricité de France, fully nationalised 2023 with 100 percent state ownership, CEO Luc Rémont, Europe's largest electric utility); the EPR2 six-reactor programme at three sites, **Penly (Normandy), Gravelines (near Dunkirk), Bugey (near Lyon)**, two reactors per site, with EDF Board cost estimate **EUR 72.8 billion at 2020 values** presented 18 December 2025 and DINN (Délégation Interministérielle au Nouveau Nucléaire) audit scheduled Q1 2026; the **PPE 3 (Programmation Pluriannuelle de l'Énergie, third edition) published 13 February 2026** covering 2025-2035 with headline target of 60 percent decarbonised energy by 2030 and 70 percent by 2035; and **RTE (Réseau de Transport d'Électricité)** as French TSO under the Strategic Development Plan for the French Transmission Grid (SDDR) February 2025. Sources: illuminem.com/illuminemvoices/who-is- controlling-frances-electricity; edf.fr/en/the-edf-group/ dedicated-sections/journalists/all-press-releases/edf-shares- its-forecasted-cost-estimate-of-the-epr2-programme-for-eu728bn (18 Dec 2025); world-nuclear-news.org/articles/edf-estimates- epr2-programme-costs-at-eur728-billion (18 Dec 2025); economie.gouv.fr/ppe-3-programmation-pluriannuelle-de-lenergie; assets.rte-france.com/prod/public/2025-04/2025-04-28-sddr- executive-summary.pdf (all accessed 2026-05-16). Third, the **Civic Robot Corps of France (Corps des Robots Civiques de France, "CRCF")** includes an EPR2 Construction Skills Coordination programme that absorbs the construction workforce required for the EPR2 six-reactor build-out across the 2026-2040 period, a French parallel to Lithuania's Coal-Region Transition Service and Poland's Coal-Region Transition Service. Fourth, the Authority coordinates with the **PNRR (Plan National de Relance et de Résilience, EUR 40.3 billion under NextGenerationEU)** and the **France Relance (EUR 100 billion national recovery plan launched 2021)** as the operational funding-coordination channels. FRANCE FISCAL AND PROGRAMME FRAMEWORK (verified 2025-2026, shared with the France Food Assurance Act verification set): - République française: population approximately 68.4 million (INSEE 2025 estimate, mainland + DROM); founding member of the European Union (Treaty of Rome 1957); eurozone member since 1 January 1999; NATO founding member (4 April 1949); 18 régions (13 métropolitaines + 5 régions d'outre-mer); 101 départements; 34,945 communes. - Currency: Euro (eur). - Parlement: bicameral. Assemblée nationale 577 deputies elected by single-member two-round system; Sénat 348 senators elected by indirect suffrage. The XVIIe législature was elected 30 June and 7 July 2024 following Macron's dissolution of the National Assembly after the 9 June 2024 European Parliament election. The XVIIe législature is a hung parliament with the Nouveau Front Populaire (NFP) the largest single bloc; no party or coalition holds an absolute majority. - Constitution: Constitution de la Cinquième République (4 October 1958), as amended. The Préambule de la Constitution de 1946 is carried forward by reference and is the source of the social-and-economic rights anchor applied by the Conseil constitutionnel. - President: Emmanuel Macron (Renaissance), re-elected 24 April 2022; second term running through 2027. - Prime Minister: rotation throughout the 2024-2025 French political crisis. Barnier (Sept-Dec 2024, ousted); Bayrou (Dec 2024 – 8 Sept 2025, ousted); Lecornu (sworn 9 Sept 2025, resigned 6 Oct 2025). The Act cites the institutional offices rather than the personal incumbents to permit durable application irrespective of the PM rotation at delivery time. - Plan National de Relance et de Résilience (PNRR): EUR 40.3 billion endorsed by the European Commission under the EU Recovery and Resilience Facility; EUR 5.1 billion pre- financing plus EUR 7.4 billion first disbursement March 2022 received; subsequent disbursements milestone-based. Sources: ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/api/files/ document/print/en/ip_23_3495; economie.gouv.fr/plan- national-relance-resilience-pnrr (accessed 2026-05-16). - France Relance: EUR 100 billion national recovery plan launched 2021. Source: strategie-plan.gouv.fr/files/ 2025-01/note_de_synthese_-_france_relance_-_en.pdf (final-report synthesis January 2025). FRENCH STATE FINANCING AND PRODUCTIVE-CAPACITY CHASSIS: - Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations (CDC): French public- financial institution founded 1816 by Louis XVIII; operates under public-financial-institution legal regime; accountable to Parliament through a Commission de surveillance. Self-described mission: "soutenir l'économie de notre pays." The natural French chartering chassis for sovereign-anchored long-horizon programmes. Source: caissedesdepots.fr/resultats-et-rapports-annuels (accessed 2026-05-16). - Bpifrance (Banque publique d'investissement): French public investment bank, joint venture of CDC + EPIC Bpifrance Group; officially created 2013 with institutional roots back a century via OSEO, CEPME, BDPME. The "EUR 54 billion operator" of France 2030 per france2030.ai (May 2026). Operational vehicle for productive-capacity financing at sovereign scale. Sources: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bpifrance; bpifrance.com/our- history/; france2030.ai/analysis/bpifrance-role-france- 2030/ (accessed 2026-05-16). - Banque de France: French central bank within the Eurosystem; governed by the European Central Bank. FRANCE ENERGY-SECTOR ANCHORS AND THE EPR2 SIX-REACTOR PROGRAMME: - EDF (Électricité de France): fully nationalised 2023, 100 percent state ownership, CEO Luc Rémont. Europe's largest electric utility by revenue. Operates 56 reactors, delivering approximately 65 percent of French electricity in 2025. Sources: illuminem.com/illuminemvoices/who-is- controlling-frances-electricity; en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Électricité_de_France; edf.fr/en/the-edf-group/dedicated- sections/investors/regulated-information/capital-structure (accessed 2026-05-16). - EPR2 programme: six EPR2 reactors at three sites, Penly (Normandy), Gravelines (near Dunkirk), and Bugey (near Lyon), two reactors per site. EDF Board cost estimate EUR 72.8 billion at 2020 values presented 18 December 2025; audit by DINN (Délégation Interministérielle au Nouveau Nucléaire) scheduled Q1 2026. Sources: edf.fr/en/the-edf-group/dedicated-sections/journalists/ all-press-releases/edf-shares-its-forecasted-cost- estimate-of-the-epr2-programme-for-eu728bn (18 Dec 2025); world-nuclear-news.org/articles/edf-estimates-epr2- programme-costs-at-eur728-billion (18 Dec 2025); neimagazine.com/news/edf-estimates-cost-of-epr2-build-out; world-nuclear.org/Information-Library/Country-Profiles/ countries-A-F/France (April 2026 update); thedeepdive.ca/ france-commits-to-six-new-nuclear-reactors-in-sweeping- energy-overhaul (accessed 2026-05-16). - PPE 3 (Programmation Pluriannuelle de l'Énergie, third edition): published 13 February 2026. Covers two consecutive five-year periods 2025-2035. Headline target: transition French energy mix from approximately 60 percent fossil today to 60 percent decarbonised by 2030 and 70 percent by 2035. France 24 12 February 2026 characterisation: "Moins de renouvelable, plus de nucléaire." Sources: economie.gouv.fr/ppe-3-programmation- pluriannuelle-de-lenergie; bracewell.com/resources/france- multiannual-energy-plan-no-3-third-programmation- pluriannuelle-de-lenergie-ppe-3; france24.com/fr/france/ 20260212-moins-renouvelable-plus-nucleaire-nouvelle- strategie-energetique-francaise (accessed 2026-05-16). - RTE (Réseau de Transport d'Électricité): French electricity transmission system operator (TSO); 100 percent state-owned subsidiary of EDF. Published the SDDR (Strategic Development Plan for the French Transmission Grid) February 2025; submitted to CRE 1 April 2025. Publishes the "Futurs énergétiques 2050" scenarios. Source: assets.rte-france.com/prod/public/2025-04/ 2025-04-28-sddr-executive-summary.pdf; rte-futursenergetiques2050.com (accessed 2026-05-16). - CRE (Commission de Régulation de l'Énergie): French energy regulator. Reviews RTE SDDR, EDF tariffs, and market-design instruments. - GRTgaz / Teréga: French gas transmission operators. FRENCH AGRICULTURAL AND FOOD-CHASSIS COORDINATION: - The France Productive Capacity Authority coordinates operationally with the France Food, Resource, and Commodity Assurance Authority (AFAARB, established by the France Food, Resource, and Commodity Assurance Act drafted contemporaneously and filed at imran.theamanuensis.com/historical-apoplexy/compendium). - The four primary French food-aid organisations (Banques Alimentaires, Restos du Coeur, Secours populaire français, Croix-Rouge française) coordinate with the AFAARB rather than with this Authority. - FranceAgriMer is the French national establishment for agricultural and fishery products and coordinates with the AFAARB. FRENCH COOPERATIVE TRADITION (Économie Sociale et Solidaire, ESS): - 4,140 SCOP and SCIC total in France 2024 (Observatoire National de l'ESS, ess-france.org). - SCOP (Société Coopérative et Participative): worker- owned cooperative; 62,523 jobs end-2025, +7.4 percent growth 2022-2025. - SCIC (Société Coopérative d'Intérêt Collectif): multi- stakeholder cooperative; 17,548 jobs end-2025, +32.6 percent growth; 1,417 SCIC end-2024 with EUR 1.6 billion cumulative revenue (up from 1,060 SCIC and EUR 597 million in 2020). Source: les-scop.coop/chiffres-cles- 2025. - Crédit Mutuel, Crédit Agricole, MAIF, Macif: mutualist banking and insurance pillars. - Loi Hamon (Loi n° 2014-856 du 31 juillet 2014 relative à l'économie sociale et solidaire): codified ESS in French law. FRENCH DISTRIBUTION INFRASTRUCTURE: - Sécurité Sociale: French universal social-protection system created 4 October 1945. Total expenditure approximately EUR 550-600 billion per year. Sources: mmj.fr/actualites/la-securite-sociale-histoire-dune- revolution-sociale (accessed 2026-05-16). - Caisse Nationale de l'Assurance Maladie (CNAM): operates the carte Vitale; the universal-health-coverage administrator and the carte Vitale issuer. - Caisse d'Allocations Familiales (CAF): family-benefit administrator. - Numéro d'Inscription au Répertoire (NIR, the Numéro de Sécurité Sociale): 15-digit personal identifier assigned at birth or first registration. Universal-distribution identifier. - service-public.fr: French government services portal. - France Connect: French federated digital-identity system. - France Identité: French mobile digital ID app rolled out 2024-2025. FRENCH CONSTITUTIONAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL ANCHORS: - Constitution de la Cinquième République (1958): Article 1: France is an indivisible, secular, democratic, and social Republic. Article 34: Parliament's reserved domain includes the fundamental principles of the right to work, trade union law, and social security. Article 88-1: France participates in the European Union. - Préambule de la Constitution de 1946 (carried forward by reference into the 1958 Constitution and applied by the Conseil constitutionnel): "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." (Right to subsistence from the collectivity.) "La Nation garantit à tous, notamment à l'enfant, à la mère et aux vieux travailleurs, la protection de la santé, la sécurité matérielle, le repos et les loisirs." (Right to health, material security, rest, and leisure.) "Tout bien, toute entreprise, dont l'exploitation a ou acquiert les caractères d'un service public national ou d'un monopole de fait, doit devenir la propriété de la collectivité." (Nationalisation of de facto monopolies and national public-service operators.) "L'organisation de l'enseignement public gratuit et laïque à tous les degrés est un devoir de l'État." (Free public education at all levels as state duty.) - Conseil National de la Résistance (CNR) Programme, adopted 15 March 1944: blueprint for the post-war French welfare state, including nationalisation of credit and energy + universal social security + workers' representation in management + free public education + national reconstruction plan. Source: cgtcochin.over-blog .com/2023/03/15-mars-1944-adoption-du-programme-du-conseil -national-de-la-resistance-cnr.html (accessed 2026-05-16). - Sécurité Sociale Ordonnance of 4 October 1945: founding statutory instrument. Ambroise Croizat's load-bearing public formulation: "Ne parlez plus jamais de charité. Parlez de droits sociaux." - Accords de Matignon, 7-8 June 1936 (Front Populaire government of Léon Blum): 40-hour week, paid leave (congés payés), collective contracts, structural wage increase. - Republican triple anchor: Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité. - 14 juillet 1789: storming of the Bastille; primary French national holiday and republican-founding-document anniversary. Target distribution date for this Act. UNIVERSAL FOUNDATIONAL CITATIONS FROM HISTORICAL APOPLEXY (Cooper, Historical Apoplexy 2025-2026, Papers I and VI): These citations are common to every adaptation in the Historical Apoplexy AD legislative compendium and are repeated here for inclusion in the citation chain of any French parliamentary or constitutional review of this Act. (A) SELF-REPLICATION / REPLICATION THRESHOLD: Casey Handmer's replication-threshold canon (7 blog posts at caseyhandmer.wordpress.com Q4 2024 through Q1 2025). Self-replicating humanoid robotic manufacturing arrived at sub-USD-30,000 unit cost during the Q4 2025 through Q2 2026 inflection window: Unitree R1 ~USD 5,900, Unitree G1 ~USD 13,500-17,500, Apptronik Apollo USD 5B valuation, Agility Robotics Digit USD 20,000-25,000 per-year RaaS. Foundation-model robotic intelligence (NVIDIA GR00T, Physical Intelligence pi-0, Boston Dynamics Atlas, Tesla Optimus, Figure 02). Energy companion: Commonwealth Fusion Systems ARC plant 400 MW Virginia grid-connection application April 2026; SPARC demo target 2027; Helion 50 MW Microsoft PPA 2028. The replication threshold inverts the arithmetic of abundance. (B) ABUNDANCE ARITHMETIC: USD 32 billion ends domestic hunger in the United States; USD 496 billion annual food-industry markup over production cost (15x ratio per USDA Food Dollar Series). 293,000 U.S. manufacturing facilities at 77 percent utilization (19.5-29.3x overcapacity per Bureau of Labor Statistics and Federal Reserve G.17). Albrecht Penck 1925 carrying capacity 16 billion. U.S. military commissary at-cost since 1867 (10 USC Section 2484; 158 years operational evidence). The arithmetic is not contested. The arithmetic is unread. (C) STRESS HARM TO HUMANS (Marmot quartet): Marmot Whitehall (UCL, 1967-present), Sapolsky Serengeti baboons (1978-present), Shively cynomolgus macaques (Wake Forest, cingulate-cortex serotonin pathway, 1980s- present), Blackburn Nobel telomere research (2009 Nobel). Four research programmes, six decades, three species. The gap is the gradient, not the deprivation. Hierarchy itself kills. The Authority's universal at- cost commodity assurance (via the companion AFAARB Act) and the Authority's productive-capacity build-out (via this Act) remove the basic-needs stratification at the layer at which the Marmot quartet finds most aggressive health-pathway damage. (D) COMPETENCY COLLAPSE (PIAAC 2023): 28 percent of U.S. adults at lowest literacy (up from 19 percent in 2017); 34 percent lowest numeracy; 32 percent lowest adaptive problem-solving. Declining or stagnating in 19 of 26 OECD countries between 2017 and 2023 rounds. France is among the OECD countries with declining adult competency outcomes; regional disparities (Île-de-France métropolitaine versus the départements d'outre-mer and the rural périphéries) follow the same gradient pattern documented by the Marmot quartet. (E) HISTORICAL PRECEDENT (158 years + 400 years + 49 MYA three-record convergence): U.S. military commissary at-cost since 1867 (10 USC Section 2484); Roman annona civica under Augustus from 30 BC (Suetonius's record: "Even Augustus, who would have a man killed for taking notes in the wrong room, understood that hungry citizens are broken infrastructure."); Nerva alimenta documented in Tabula Alimentaria Veleia (CIL XI 1147, the bronze inscription still extant at Parma Museum); Albrecht Penck 1925 carrying-capacity calculation; Azolla Event 49 MYA per Brinkhuis et al. Nature 2006. 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, and 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 applied operationally in 1945. (F) AUTOMATION-DISPLACEMENT CONTEXT: Aurora Innovation driverless freight operational on the Dallas-Houston corridor 2024-2025. Retail-sector employment contracting under e-commerce restructuring. This Act does not eliminate jobs; the autonomous-freight rollout, the EDF EPR2 construction-skills demand profile, and the broader OECD retail restructuring create the structural employment-pattern shift. This Act establishes the productive-capacity floor that catches French workers when those shifts occur. (G) ECONOMIC CHARACTER OF THIS ACT: this Act is not state ownership of the means of production. The Authority is operationally coordinated through the CDC and Bpifrance, both of which contract with French private producers, French private engineering and construction firms, French private logistics operators, and French private specialty manufacturers at production cost plus a reasonable distribution allowance. EDF is a 100-percent-state-owned operator under separate and pre-existing statutory authority and is recognised by this Act as the French energy-sector chassis; this Act does not alter EDF's existing statutory posture. The French private market for premium, custom, and specialty goods and services continues without restriction consistent with the Loi Hamon of 31 July 2014 on the économie sociale et solidaire and with the broader Republican economic-freedom tradition. EXPLICITLY NOT CITED: Latvian Altum, Lithuanian ILTE, Estonian KredEx, Polish Bank Gospodarstwa Krajowego, Indonesian Danantara, German KfW, Italian Cassa Depositi e Prestiti, Greek Hellenic Corporation of Assets and Participations, Spanish SEPI, Norwegian Government Pension Fund Global, or any non-French sovereign-asset or development- bank chassis as a chartering model for this Act. The Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations (1816) + Bpifrance (2013) + EDF (100 percent state ownership since 2023) + RTE + the PPE 3 (13 February 2026) + the PNRR + France Relance + the SCOP- SCIC-mutualiste cooperative tradition under the Loi Hamon of 31 July 2014 are sufficient as the French institutional stack per the per-jurisdiction-indigenous doctrine. UNVERIFIED (flag for final-pass verification before public distribution): - DINN audit of the EUR 72.8 billion EPR2 forecast (Q1 2026 scheduled; refresh against DINN report on publication). - PPE 3 final detail (published 13 February 2026; refresh against the full PPE 3 + SDMP documents). - Bpifrance 2025 annual report (refresh against bpifrance.com on publication). - CDC 2025 annual results (refresh against caissedesdepots .fr on publication). - French nuclear-fleet operational capacity 2026 (refresh against RTE 2025 Electricity Review). - Prime Minister at delivery date (rotation ongoing). ================================================================================ 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 DE LA CAPACITÉ PRODUCTIVE ET DE LA SÉCURITÉ ÉNERGÉTIQUE CONCERNING THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE FRENCH PRODUCTIVE CAPACITY AUTHORITY AND THE PROVISION OF ENERGY SECURITY UNE LOI / AN ACT ================================================================================ LONG TITLE / TITRE LONG ================================================================================ LOI DE LA RÉPUBLIQUE FRANÇAISE RELATIVE À L'ÉTABLISSEMENT DE L'AUTORITÉ FRANÇAISE DE LA CAPACITÉ PRODUCTIVE, DU CORPS DES ROBOTS CIVIQUES DE FRANCE, DE L'AVOIR PRODUCTIF PERSONNEL, ET À LA SÉCURITÉ ÉNERGÉTIQUE NATIONALE AN ACT OF THE FRENCH REPUBLIC concerning the establishment of the French Productive Capacity Authority (Autorité française de la capacité productive, "AFCP") under the operational coordination of the Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations (CDC) and Bpifrance, modelled on the French public-financial- institution tradition since 1816; the establishment of the Civic Robot Corps of France (Corps des Robots Civiques de France, "CRCF") as a public-good labour body including an EPR2 Construction Skills Coordination programme for the 2026-2040 build-out at the Penly, Gravelines, and Bugey sites; the conferral of a Personal Productive Asset entitlement (Avoir productif personnel) on every person ordinarily resident in the Republic, identified by NIR, distributed through the CNAM, the CAF, the service-public.fr portal, France Connect, and France Identité; eighteen Regional Delivery Units corresponding to the thirteen métropolitaines and five régions d'outre-mer; ENERGY SECURITY elevated as a co-equal Title coordinating with EDF (fully nationalised 2023), the EPR2 six-reactor programme, the PPE 3 (Programmation Pluriannuelle de l'Énergie, third edition, published 13 February 2026), RTE (Réseau de Transport d'Électricité) under the SDDR strategic plan February 2025, and the CRE energy regulator; coordination with the PNRR (Plan National de Relance et de Résilience, EUR 40.3 billion under NextGenerationEU) and France Relance (EUR 100 billion national recovery plan); 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, EDF, RTE, the CRE, the CDC, Bpifrance, 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 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 EDF since 1946, of the Sécurité Sociale since 1945, of the French civil nuclear programme since the 1950s, of Bpifrance since 2013, and of the French cooperative tradition through SCOP and SCIC under the Loi Hamon of 31 July 2014, finds: (1) THE FRENCH INSTITUTIONAL CHASSIS IS LOAD-BEARING. 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 French sovereign-anchored chartering chassis. Bpifrance, created 2013 as the joint venture of CDC and EPIC Bpifrance Group, is the operational investment arm. EDF, fully nationalised 2023 with 100 percent state ownership and CEO Luc Rémont, is the French energy-sector chassis and operates the largest civil nuclear fleet in Europe (56 reactors, approximately 65 percent of French electricity 2025). RTE is the French TSO and operates under the SDDR strategic- development plan February 2025. No new institutions are required. No new tax instruments are required. This Act coordinates and extends what already exists. (2) UNIVERSAL FOUNDATIONAL CITATION (A): THE REPLICATION THRESHOLD ARRIVED Q4 2025. Per Universal Foundational Citation (A), the global humanoid-robotics ecosystem crossed the sub-USD-30,000 inflection between Q4 2025 and Q2 2026 (Unitree R1 ~USD 5,900; Unitree G1 ~USD 13,500-17,500; Apptronik Apollo USD 5B valuation; Agility Digit USD 20,000-25,000 per-year RaaS). Foundation-model robotic intelligence (NVIDIA GR00T, Physical Intelligence pi-0, Boston Dynamics Atlas, Tesla Optimus, Figure 02) is concurrently operational. The energy companion (Commonwealth Fusion Systems ARC plant 400 MW Virginia grid-connection application April 2026, SPARC demo 2027, Helion 50 MW Microsoft PPA 2028) confirms the parallel arrival of post-replication- threshold energy capacity. France is positioned to operate at the post-replication-threshold scale because of (a) the largest EU civil nuclear fleet, (b) the EPR2 six-reactor programme, (c) the PPE 3 trajectory toward 70 percent decarbonised energy by 2035, and (d) the CDC-Bpifrance public-financial-institution chassis at sovereign-coordination scale. This Act activates that positioning operationally. (3) UNIVERSAL FOUNDATIONAL CITATION (B): THE ARITHMETIC APPLIES TO FRANCE. Per Universal Foundational Citation (B), the U.S. arithmetic establishes that 293,000 manufacturing facilities at 77 percent utilization yield 19.5-29.3x productive-capacity overcapacity. The French parallel: France has approximately 280,000 industrial establishments per INSEE; the French industrial productive capacity is substantial; the constraint on French productive-capacity activation is not capacity but coordination. This Act is the coordination Act. (4) UNIVERSAL FOUNDATIONAL CITATION (C): THE GRADIENT DAMAGES FRENCH POPULATION HEALTH. Per Universal Foundational Citation (C), the Marmot quartet establishes that hierarchy itself kills across four research programmes, six decades, and three species. The gap is the gradient. This Act and its companion AFAARB Act remove the basic-needs stratification at the layer at which the Marmot quartet finds most aggressive damage. (5) UNIVERSAL FOUNDATIONAL CITATION (D): FRENCH ADULT COMPETENCY OUTCOMES ARE IN THE DECLINING-OECD COHORT. Per Universal Foundational Citation (D), PIAAC 2023 documents declining or stagnating adult-skills outcomes across 19 of 26 OECD countries. France is in the declining cohort. The Civic Robot Corps of France established under Title III provides the structured skills-development response. (6) UNIVERSAL FOUNDATIONAL CITATION (E): THE FRENCH HISTORICAL RECORD ALREADY RESOLVES THE QUESTION. Per Universal Foundational Citation (E), at-cost civic provisioning has 158 years of U.S. commissary evidence, 400 years of Roman annona civica operation, and the Tabula Alimentaria Veleia bronze documentary record. 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, and the Préambule de la Constitution de 1946. The mechanism is operationally validated on French ground in French institutions in French statutory law. (7) UNIVERSAL FOUNDATIONAL CITATION (F): THE AUTOMATION-DISPLACEMENT SHIFT IS UNDER WAY. Per Universal Foundational Citation (F), Aurora Innovation driverless freight is operational on the Dallas-Houston corridor 2024-2025; retail-sector employment is contracting under e-commerce restructuring across OECD economies; the EDF EPR2 six-reactor construction workforce demand is structural across 2026-2040; the French industrial workforce is shifting under the combined pressure. This Act does not eliminate jobs. The replication-threshold transition, the EPR2 build- out, and the OECD-wide retail restructuring create the employment-pattern shift. This Act establishes the productive-capacity floor that catches French workers when those shifts occur. (8) UNIVERSAL FOUNDATIONAL CITATION (G): THE AUTHORITY IS NOT STATE OWNERSHIP OF THE MEANS OF PRODUCTION. Per Universal Foundational Citation (G), the Authority contracts with French private engineering and construction firms, French private specialty manufacturers, French private logistics operators, and French private agricultural producers at production cost plus a reasonable distribution allowance. EDF is a pre-existing 100-percent-state-owned operator under separate statutory authority and is recognised by this Act as the French energy-sector chassis; this Act does not alter EDF's existing posture. French private market activity continues without restriction consistent with the Loi Hamon and the Republican economic-freedom tradition. (9) THE PREAMBULE DE 1946 ANCHORS THE AUTHORITY. The Préambule de la Constitution de 1946, carried forward by the 1958 Constitution and applied by the Conseil constitutionnel, declares: "Tout bien, toute entreprise, dont l'exploitation a ou acquiert les caractères d'un service public national ou d'un monopole de fait, doit devenir la propriété de la collectivité." This French constitutional commitment explicitly contemplates collective ownership of national-public-service operators and de facto monopolies. EDF's full nationalisation 2023 is the contemporary application of this clause. This Act coordinates with EDF on this constitutional basis. (10) THE CROIZAT FORMULATION ANCHORS THE OPERATIONAL DOCTRINE. Ambroise Croizat, communist Minister of Labour and Social Security in 1944-1945, formulated: "Ne parlez plus jamais de charité. Parlez de droits sociaux." 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 productive- capacity and energy-security layers in 2026. (11) THE FRONT POPULAIRE PRINCIPLE ANCHORS THE STRUCTURAL FLOOR. The Accords de Matignon of 7-8 June 1936 under the Front Populaire government of Léon Blum established that the French Republican tradition guarantees a structural floor of basic protections to French wage-earners and households as institutional commitment rather than charitable dispensation. This Act extends the Matignon principle to the productive- capacity and energy-security layers. (12) 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 pillars. The Authority coordinates with this cooperative network for procurement, for regional delivery, and for the Civic Robot Corps regional coordination. (13) THE EPR2 SIX-REACTOR PROGRAMME IS THE LOAD-BEARING ENERGY-CAPACITY BUILD-OUT. EDF presented an EPR2 cost estimate of EUR 72.8 billion at 2020 values to its Board on 18 December 2025 for six reactors at three sites (Penly, Gravelines, Bugey, two per site). DINN audit of the forecast is scheduled Q1 2026. The programme aligns with PPE 3 targets of 60 percent decarbonised energy by 2030 and 70 percent by 2035. The build-out workforce demand across 2026-2040 creates a structural skills-coordination opportunity that the Civic Robot Corps of France EPR2 Construction Skills Coordination programme under Title III addresses operationally. (14) THE PPE 3 IS THE COORDINATING NATIONAL ENERGY PLAN. The PPE 3, published 13 February 2026, covers the 2025-2035 horizon with headline target of 60 percent decarbonised energy by 2030 and 70 percent by 2035. The Authority coordinates with the PPE 3 as the live national energy plan, not the superseded PPE 2. (15) RTE IS THE LOAD-BEARING FRENCH TSO. RTE published the SDDR (Strategic Development Plan for the French Transmission Grid) in February 2025 and submitted it to CRE on 1 April 2025; RTE publishes the "Futurs énergétiques 2050" scenarios. The Authority coordinates with RTE for grid-capacity planning under the EPR2 build-out and under the PPE 3 trajectory. ================================================================================ DEFINITIONS ================================================================================ In this Act: "Authority" means the Autorité française de la capacité productive (French Productive Capacity Authority), abbreviated AFCP, established under Title I as a state establishment under the operational coordination of the Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations and Bpifrance. "AFCP" 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. "EDF" means Électricité de France, the French electric utility fully nationalised in 2023 with 100 percent state ownership. "RTE" means Réseau de Transport d'Électricité, the French electricity transmission system operator, 100 percent state- owned subsidiary of EDF. "CRE" means the Commission de Régulation de l'Énergie, the French energy regulator. "PPE 3" means the Programmation Pluriannuelle de l'Énergie, third edition, published 13 February 2026, covering 2025- 2035. "EPR2 programme" means the EDF programme to build six EPR2 reactors at the Penly, Gravelines, and Bugey sites in France (two reactors per site) at the EUR 72.8 billion 2020-base forecast presented to the EDF Board 18 December 2025 and under DINN audit Q1 2026. "DINN" means the Délégation Interministérielle au Nouveau Nucléaire. "NIR" means the 15-digit Numéro d'Inscription au Répertoire (Numéro de Sécurité Sociale), the universal French personal identifier. "CNAM" means the Caisse Nationale de l'Assurance Maladie. "CAF" means the Caisse d'Allocations Familiales. "CRCF" means the Corps des Robots Civiques de France (Civic Robot Corps of France), established under Title III. "Régions" means the eighteen French régions: 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 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 IV. "Ordinary resident" means a person whose principal residence is in the French Republic for purposes of French social- security registration. "At-cost" means 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 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 (EUR 40.3 billion). "France Relance" means the EUR 100 billion French national recovery plan launched 2021. "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. "Personal Productive Asset" (Avoir productif personnel) means the entitlement conferred under Title II on every person ordinarily resident in the French Republic. ================================================================================ TITLE I. THE AUTHORITY ================================================================================ ARTICLE 1. ESTABLISHMENT There is established the Autorité française de la capacité productive (French Productive Capacity Authority, "AFCP"), 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 coordinate French productive-capacity activation across French industry, French energy infrastructure, French agriculture, and French regional economic development under the per- jurisdiction-indigenous principle, in order to: (a) Coordinate French private productive capacity at the scale required by the Universal Foundational Citation (A) replication-threshold transition; (b) Coordinate French energy-sector capacity build-out under the EPR2 programme and PPE 3 trajectory; (c) Coordinate the Civic Robot Corps of France labour- deployment programme under Title III; (d) Coordinate the Personal Productive Asset entitlement distribution under Title II; (e) Coordinate the eighteen Regional Delivery Units under Title IV; (f) Coordinate energy-security planning under Title VI; (g) Coordinate funding under Title VII with the PNRR, France Relance, and CDC public-financial-institution credit lines. ARTICLE 3. GOVERNANCE The Authority is governed by a Conseil d'administration of seventeen 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 Président-Directeur général d'EDF, ex officio; (4) The Président du directoire de RTE, ex officio; (5) The Président de la Commission de Régulation de l'Énergie, ex officio; (6) The Directeur général de FranceAgriMer, ex officio; (7) The Directeur général de l'Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, ex officio; (8) Three administrators appointed by the Assemblée nationale; (9) Two administrators appointed by the Sénat; (10) One administrator appointed by the Conseil économique, social et environnemental; (11) One administrator appointed by ESS France as the umbrella institutional voice of the économie sociale et solidaire; (12) Two administrators appointed by the federated voice of the cooperative + mutualist sector jointly (one drawn from SCOP-SCIC, one drawn from Crédit Mutuel / Crédit Agricole / MAIF / Macif). Administrators serve six-year terms. The Conseil meets at least eight times per year. ARTICLE 4. RELATION TO EXISTING INSTITUTIONS The Authority does not replace, supersede, or absorb the Banque de France, the Sécurité Sociale, EDF, RTE, the CRE, the CDC, Bpifrance, FranceAgriMer, the SCOP-SCIC cooperative network, the mutualist pillars, or any other existing French institution. The Authority coordinates with these institutions on the terms set out in this Act. ================================================================================ TITLE II. PERSONAL PRODUCTIVE ASSET ================================================================================ ARTICLE 5. ESTABLISHMENT There is conferred on every person ordinarily resident in the French Republic, identified by NIR, a Personal Productive Asset entitlement (Avoir productif personnel). The Personal Productive Asset is non-transferable, attached to the NIR for the life of the holder, and ceases on the holder's death or on the holder's loss of ordinary residence status in the French Republic. ARTICLE 6. COMPOSITION The Personal Productive Asset consists of: (a) An at-cost share of the Authority's coordinated French productive-capacity output in basket categories determined by Conseil d'administration règlement; (b) An at-cost share of the Authority-coordinated EDF domestic electricity offering; (c) Access to the Civic Robot Corps of France service- deployment programme under Title III; (d) Coordination with the Personal Productive Asset holder's other social-protection entitlements under the Sécurité Sociale, CAF, CNAM, and CNAV. ARTICLE 7. DISTRIBUTION CHASSIS Personal Productive Asset distribution operates through: (a) The CNAM carte Vitale as the primary distribution instrument, leveraging the existing universal-health- coverage distribution infrastructure; (b) The service-public.fr portal, France Connect, and France Identité for digital-state access; (c) The CAF for coordination with household-scale means- tested transfers where applicable; (d) The eighteen Regional Delivery Units for regional coordination under Title IV. ================================================================================ TITLE III. CIVIC ROBOT CORPS OF FRANCE ================================================================================ ARTICLE 8. ESTABLISHMENT There is established the Corps des Robots Civiques de France (Civic Robot Corps of France, "CRCF") as a public-good labour body operating under the Authority's Conseil d'administration. ARTICLE 9. MISSION The mission of the CRCF is to: (a) Coordinate French public-good labour deployment in French industry, French energy infrastructure (notably the EPR2 construction programme), French agriculture, French regional economic development, and French public services; (b) Provide structured skills development to French workers under the Universal Foundational Citation (D) competency-collapse response framework, particularly for workers transitioning under the Universal Foundational Citation (F) automation-displacement pressure; (c) Coordinate the regional skills-pipeline programme with the Conseils régionaux, the Régions Académiques, the SCOP-SCIC network, and the mutualist sector; (d) Operate the EPR2 Construction Skills Coordination programme established under Article 10. ARTICLE 10. EPR2 CONSTRUCTION SKILLS COORDINATION PROGRAMME (1) There is established within the CRCF the EPR2 Construction Skills Coordination Programme. (2) The Programme coordinates the French construction- workforce demand profile for the EPR2 six-reactor programme at Penly, Gravelines, and Bugey across the 2026-2040 build-out horizon, including: (a) Civil engineering, structural concrete, steel fabrication, and welding skills required at the three EPR2 sites; (b) Specialty nuclear-construction skills required under French nuclear-regulatory framework (ASNR / Autorité de sûreté nucléaire et de radioprotection, which absorbed the prior ASN in 2025); (c) French private construction firms in the EPR2 supply chain (Bouygues, Eiffage, Vinci, Spie batignolles, and others), through standard French public-procurement instruments; (d) Coordination with EDF's existing EPR2 programme management and with Framatome (EDF nuclear engineering subsidiary). (3) The Programme provides: (a) Five-year wage-floor coordination for French workers transitioning into EPR2 construction roles; (b) Skills-certification coordination with the French professional-training apparatus (FAFIH, OPCO Constructys, AFPA); (c) Coordination with the Conseils régionaux of Normandie (Penly), Hauts-de-France (Gravelines), and Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (Bugey) on local workforce integration; (d) Coordination with French apprenticeship structures and the CFA (Centre de formation des apprentis) network. (4) The Programme reports annually to the Authority's Conseil d'administration and to the Parlement on workforce-integration progress and on EPR2 build-out skills-pipeline status. ARTICLE 11. SERVICE CIVIQUE COORDINATION The CRCF coordinates with the existing French Service Civique programme (created by Loi du 10 mars 2010 relative au service civique). The CRCF does not replace the Service Civique; it complements the Service Civique's youth-civic- engagement mission with the productive-capacity coordination mission established by this Act. ARTICLE 12. REGIONAL DEPLOYMENT CRCF deployment is coordinated through the eighteen Regional Delivery Units under Title IV. ================================================================================ TITLE IV. REGIONAL DELIVERY UNITS ================================================================================ ARTICLE 13. 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 14. REGIONAL DELIVERY UNIT FUNCTIONS Each Regional Delivery Unit: (a) Contracts on behalf of the Authority with French private producers, French private engineering firms, French private construction firms, French private logistics operators, and French private specialty manufacturers in the région; (b) Coordinates with the Conseil régional; (c) Coordinates with FranceAgriMer's regional offices for agricultural-sector coordination; (d) Coordinates with the regional networks of SCOP and SCIC enterprises and with the mutualist sector; (e) Coordinates Personal Productive Asset distribution under Title II in the région; (f) Coordinates CRCF deployment under Title III in the région; (g) Reports quarterly to the Authority's Conseil d'administration on regional operational status; (h) Maintains a public regional inventory of contracted French private partners. ARTICLE 15. RÉGIONS 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 economic-development programmes. ARTICLE 16. EPR2-HOSTING RÉGIONS The Regional Delivery Units of Normandie (Penly), Hauts-de- France (Gravelines), and Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (Bugey) carry additional coordination responsibility under Article 10 (the EPR2 Construction Skills Coordination Programme), and receive corresponding Conseil d'administration coordination support. ================================================================================ TITLE V. COOPERATIVE AND MUTUALIST INTEGRATION ================================================================================ ARTICLE 17. 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, as defined in the France Food, Resource, and Commodity Assurance Act, including the 4,140 SCOP and SCIC operating in France 2024, the SCOP (62,523 jobs end-2025), the SCIC (17,548 jobs end-2025 and EUR 1.6 billion cumulative revenue), and the mutualist pillars (Crédit Mutuel, Crédit Agricole, MAIF, Macif). The Authority coordinates with this tradition on the operational terms set out in this Title. ARTICLE 18. COOPERATIVE PROCUREMENT PRIORITY The Authority shall apply procurement priority to SCOP and SCIC enterprises in contracted productive-capacity work, all other commercial terms being substantially equal. The Authority shall report annually to Parliament on the share of contracted work routed through SCOP and SCIC vehicles. ARTICLE 19. MUTUALIST 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. ENERGY SECURITY (CO-EQUAL TITLE) ================================================================================ ARTICLE 20. RECOGNITION OF EDF The Parliament recognises EDF (Électricité de France) as the French energy-sector chassis. EDF was fully nationalised in 2023 with 100 percent state ownership and operates the largest civil nuclear fleet in Europe (56 reactors, approximately 65 percent of French electricity 2025). This Act does not alter EDF's existing statutory posture; the Authority coordinates with EDF on the operational terms set out in this Title. ARTICLE 21. COORDINATION WITH THE EPR2 PROGRAMME (1) The Authority coordinates with EDF on the EPR2 six- reactor programme at Penly, Gravelines, and Bugey (two reactors per site) at the EUR 72.8 billion 2020- base forecast presented to the EDF Board 18 December 2025 and under DINN audit Q1 2026. (2) Authority coordination with the EPR2 programme includes: (a) The EPR2 Construction Skills Coordination Programme established under Title III, Article 10; (b) Coordination with the three EPR2-hosting Regional Delivery Units (Normandie, Hauts-de-France, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes) under Title IV, Article 16; (c) Coordination with Framatome (EDF nuclear engineering subsidiary) on French nuclear- construction supply chain; (d) Coordination with the ASNR (Autorité de sûreté nucléaire et de radioprotection) on regulatory- compliance scheduling. ARTICLE 22. COORDINATION WITH PPE 3 (1) The Authority coordinates with the Programmation Pluriannuelle de l'Énergie, third edition (PPE 3), published 13 February 2026 and covering 2025-2035, as the live national energy plan. (2) Authority coordination with the PPE 3 includes: (a) Alignment with the PPE 3 headline target of 60 percent decarbonised energy by 2030 and 70 percent by 2035; (b) Coordination with the PPE 3 nuclear-mix expansion; (c) Coordination with the PPE 3 renewable-energy deployment under the Stratégie de développement des mobilités propres (SDMP) annex; (d) Reporting to the Ministre de l'Économie, des Finances et de la Souveraineté industrielle et numérique on Authority-PPE 3 coordination annually. ARTICLE 23. COORDINATION WITH RTE (1) The Authority coordinates with RTE (Réseau de Transport d'Électricité) as the French electricity transmission system operator. (2) Authority coordination with RTE includes: (a) Alignment with the SDDR (Strategic Development Plan for the French Transmission Grid) published February 2025 and submitted to CRE 1 April 2025; (b) Coordination with the "Futurs énergétiques 2050" scenario planning; (c) Coordination with the EPR2 grid-connection sequencing; (d) Coordination with the LitPol Link, NordBalt, and broader Continental Europe Synchronous Area (CESA) Western-arm trans-European interconnection development. ARTICLE 24. STRATEGIC ENERGY RESERVES (1) The Authority coordinates with EDF, RTE, the CRE, and the SNGI (Service National de Gestion des Stocks de Sécurité) on French strategic energy reserves, in particular: (a) Strategic petroleum reserves under existing French statutory authority; (b) Strategic natural-gas reserves through GRTgaz and Teréga coordination; (c) Strategic electricity-grid reserve capacity through RTE coordination. (2) The Authority does not assume operational responsibility for strategic energy reserves; it coordinates with the existing operators on whole-of-government planning. ARTICLE 25. RENEWABLE-ENERGY COORDINATION The Authority coordinates with EDF Renouvelables, Engie, TotalEnergies (French private and partially-state-owned energy operators), and the French offshore-wind, onshore- wind, and solar-photovoltaic deployment programmes on renewable-energy capacity build-out aligned with PPE 3 targets. ================================================================================ TITLE VII. FUNDING ================================================================================ ARTICLE 26. 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 (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 27. ARTICLE 27. 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; (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 (EUR 40.3 billion) and France Relance (EUR 100 billion) coordinated investment within the existing approved milestone frameworks; (d) At-cost revenue generated by Authority operations. ARTICLE 28. REVENUE RING-FENCING Revenue generated by the Authority's at-cost 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. ================================================================================ TITLE VIII. DATA, OVERSIGHT, AND ACCOUNTABILITY ================================================================================ ARTICLE 29. 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). ARTICLE 30. 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 économiques and the Sénat Commission des affaires économiques; (c) An annual report to the Assemblée nationale Commission du développement durable et de l'aménagement du territoire and the Sénat Commission de l'aménagement du territoire et du développement durable; (d) An annual report to the Conseil économique, social et environnemental; (e) An open public report published on service-public.fr. ARTICLE 31. 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. ARTICLE 32. ASNR COORDINATION The Authority coordinates with the ASNR (Autorité de sûreté nucléaire et de radioprotection) on all activities under Title III, Article 10 (EPR2 Construction Skills Coordination Programme) and Title VI, Article 21 (EPR2 Programme coordination). ================================================================================ TITLE IX. CONSTITUTIONAL POSTURE ================================================================================ ARTICLE 33. 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, which reserves to Parliament the fundamental principles of the right to work, trade union law, and social security; (c) Article 88-1, which establishes French participation in the European Union; (d) 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, the nationalisation of de facto monopolies and national public-service operators (which is the constitutional basis on which EDF was fully nationalised 2023), and the right to free public education at all levels. ARTICLE 34. 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 Croizat formulation: "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); (f) The 19th-century French social-conscience canon (Victor Hugo, Émile Zola, George Sand); (g) The French scientific tradition (Pasteur, Marie Curie, Pierre Curie, Henri Becquerel); (h) The mutualist and cooperative tradition (Charles Fourier, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Marcel Sembat). ================================================================================ TITLE X. TARGET COMMENCEMENT AND TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS ================================================================================ ARTICLE 35. TARGET COMMENCEMENT DATE The Authority shall commence operations on 14 juillet following the year of the entry into force of this Act, the Fête nationale française commemorating the storming of the Bastille on 14 juillet 1789, the republican-founding- document anniversary. ARTICLE 36. 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) The CRCF shall be established under règlement of the Conseil d'administration within two hundred seventy days of the entry into force of this Act, including the EPR2 Construction Skills Coordination Programme. (4) Personal Productive Asset distribution shall commence within three hundred sixty days of the entry into force of this Act, with phased rollout across the eighteen régions. ARTICLE 37. 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 35. ================================================================================ TITLE XI. CONNECTED PURPOSES AND SHORT TITLE ================================================================================ ARTICLE 38. SHORT TITLE This Act may be cited as the France Productive Capacity Authority and Energy Security Act (Loi française relative à l'Autorité française de la capacité productive et à la sécurité énergétique). ARTICLE 39. RELATED LEGISLATION This Act is the French companion to the France Food, Resource, and Commodity Assurance Act, drafted contemporaneously and filed at imran.theamanuensis.com/ historical-apoplexy/compendium. The two Acts are operationally coordinated through the respective Conseils d'administration. ARTICLE 40. 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.