Bill 7479. The Chamber debated and voted it on 20 March 2024.
\nSittings: Sitting of 20 March 2024
\nThe Chamber debated and adopted projet de loi 7479B, the last part of the 2022 competition law giving the government a time-limited power to cap prices, and rejected Sven Clement's motion 1 asking for ex ante merger control and self-referral by the competition authority.
\nOctavie Modert (CSV), stating why the six-month limit on the government's regulatory power matters:
\n\n\nEt geet drëm – an dat ass wichteg –, datt d’Chamber hir Kontrollfunktioune kann ausüben an net op onbegrenzten Zäit kee Gesetz do ass.
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The point is, and this is important, that the Chamber can exercise its control functions and that no law is missing for an unlimited time.
\nSitting of 20 March 2024, Octavie Modert, CSV
\nFranz Fayot (LSAP), defending the price-intervention power he tabled as minister:
\n\n\nAn an deene Krisekontexter kënne mer eebe Situatiounen hunn, wou et duerchaus utile ass a wichteg ass, dass eng Regierung och d’Méiglechkeet kritt, fir bei de Präisser ze intervenéieren, déi sech dann dee Moment net normal fixéieren.
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In such crisis contexts we can have situations where it is quite useful and important that a government also gets the possibility to intervene on prices that are not being set normally at that moment.
\nSitting of 20 March 2024, Franz Fayot, LSAP
\nTom Weidig (ADR), naming the risk of abuse in giving the government extra power:
\n\n\nWann een an Ausnamesituatiounen ass, wann een eppes ännert an der Regierung eng extra Gewalt gëtt, gëtt et natierlech ëmmer d’Méiglechkeet, datt do Mëssbrauch gemaach gëtt.
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When you are in exceptional situations, when you change something and give the government an extra power, there is of course always the possibility that it is abused.
\nSitting of 20 March 2024, Tom Weidig, ADR
\n20 March 2024 — Voté.
\n| Party | For | Against | Abstain |
|---|---|---|---|
| CSV | 0 | 21 | 0 |
| DP | 0 | 14 | 0 |
| LSAP | 1 | 10 | 0 |
| ADR | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| déi gréng | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| Piraten | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| déi Lénk | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 9 | 50 | 0 |
Party splits: LSAP, déi gréng, Piraten, déi Lénk voted for; CSV, DP, LSAP, ADR voted against.
\nDeputies who voted against the majority of their party in this vote:
\n20 March 2024 — Premier vote constitutionnel.
\n| Party | For | Against | Abstain |
|---|---|---|---|
| CSV | 21 | 0 | 0 |
| DP | 14 | 0 | 0 |
| LSAP | 11 | 0 | 0 |
| ADR | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| déi gréng | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| Piraten | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| déi Lénk | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 60 | 0 | 0 |