{"id":"dossiers/PL8425","title":"PL8425 — Blockchain","type":"dossier","html":"<p>Bill 8425 (\"Blockchain\"). The Chamber debated it on 18 December 2024 and voted on 19 December 2024.</p>\n<p>Sittings: <a href=\"/lhoft?page=seances%2F2024-12-18-n055\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"seances/2024-12-18-n055\">Sitting of 18 December 2024</a>, <a href=\"/lhoft?page=seances%2F2024-12-18-n056\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"seances/2024-12-18-n056\">Sitting of 18 December 2024</a>, <a href=\"/lhoft?page=seances%2F2024-12-19-n057\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"seances/2024-12-19-n057\">Sitting of 19 December 2024</a>, <a href=\"/lhoft?page=seances%2F2024-12-19-n058\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"seances/2024-12-19-n058\">Sitting of 19 December 2024</a></p>\n<h2>Debate</h2>\n<h3>18 December 2024 — <a href=\"/lhoft?page=topics%2Ffinancial-centre\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"topics/financial-centre\">The financial centre and financial regulation</a></h3>\n<p>Speakers from the majority linked the budget's revenue to the financial centre, announcing the crypto-asset rules and the bill 8425 on a control agent for dematerialised securities, to be voted the next day; the finance minister set out the sector's weight in corporate tax receipts.</p>\n<p>Diane Adehm (CSV), stating that the majority gives the financial centre its legal framework:</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Mir ginn eiser Finanzplaz och de legale Kader, dee si brauch, andeems mir zäitno déi relevant EU-Reglementatiounen ëmsetzen a punkto Blockchain an Daisychains.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p><em>We are also giving our financial centre the legal framework it needs by transposing the relevant EU regulations on blockchain and daisy chains in good time.</em></p>\n<p><a href=\"/lhoft?page=seances%2F2024-12-18-n056\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"seances/2024-12-18-n056\">Sitting of 18 December 2024</a>, <a href=\"/lhoft?page=deputies%2Fdiane-adehm\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"deputies/diane-adehm\">Diane Adehm</a>, CSV</p>\n<p>André Bauler (DP), stating his party's support for a strong and regulated financial centre:</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>An als DP erkenne mer ganz kloer de Besoin vun enger staarker, kloer reguléierter an zukunftsorientéierter Finanzplaz, mat där mir als Land och international konkurrenzfäeg an interessant bleiwen.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p><em>And as the DP we clearly recognise the need for a strong, clearly regulated and future-oriented financial centre, with which we as a country stay internationally competitive and interesting.</em></p>\n<p><a href=\"/lhoft?page=seances%2F2024-12-18-n056\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"seances/2024-12-18-n056\">Sitting of 18 December 2024</a>, <a href=\"/lhoft?page=deputies%2Fandre-bauler\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"deputies/andre-bauler\">André Bauler</a>, DP</p>\n<p>Gilles Roth, Ministre des Finances, stating that the financial sector must be strengthened further:</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>De Finanzsecteur musse mer weiderhi stäerken, dat ass, op gutt Lëtzebuergesch gesot, „d’Mëllechkou“ vun eisem Staat.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p><em>We must go on strengthening the financial sector; it is, to put it in plain Luxembourgish, the cash cow of our state.</em></p>\n<p><a href=\"/lhoft?page=seances%2F2024-12-18-n056\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"seances/2024-12-18-n056\">Sitting of 18 December 2024</a>, Gilles Roth</p>\n<h2>Votes</h2>\n<h3>Main vote: PL 8425 - \"Blockchain\"</h3>\n<p>19 December 2024 — Premier vote constitutionnel.</p>\n<table><thead><tr><th>Party</th><th style=\"text-align: right;\">For</th><th style=\"text-align: right;\">Against</th><th style=\"text-align: right;\">Abstain</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><a href=\"/lhoft?page=parties%2Fcsv\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"parties/csv\">CSV</a></td><td style=\"text-align: right;\">21</td><td style=\"text-align: right;\">0</td><td style=\"text-align: right;\">0</td></tr><tr><td><a href=\"/lhoft?page=parties%2Fdp\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"parties/dp\">DP</a></td><td style=\"text-align: right;\">14</td><td style=\"text-align: right;\">0</td><td style=\"text-align: right;\">0</td></tr><tr><td><a href=\"/lhoft?page=parties%2Flsap\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"parties/lsap\">LSAP</a></td><td style=\"text-align: right;\">12</td><td style=\"text-align: right;\">0</td><td style=\"text-align: right;\">0</td></tr><tr><td><a href=\"/lhoft?page=parties%2Fadr\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"parties/adr\">ADR</a></td><td style=\"text-align: right;\">5</td><td style=\"text-align: right;\">0</td><td style=\"text-align: right;\">0</td></tr><tr><td><a href=\"/lhoft?page=parties%2Fdei-greng\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"parties/dei-greng\">déi gréng</a></td><td style=\"text-align: right;\">4</td><td style=\"text-align: right;\">0</td><td style=\"text-align: right;\">0</td></tr><tr><td><a href=\"/lhoft?page=parties%2Fpiraten\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"parties/piraten\">Piraten</a></td><td style=\"text-align: right;\">2</td><td style=\"text-align: right;\">0</td><td style=\"text-align: right;\">0</td></tr><tr><td><a href=\"/lhoft?page=parties%2Fdei-lenk\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"parties/dei-lenk\">déi Lénk</a></td><td style=\"text-align: right;\">0</td><td style=\"text-align: right;\">2</td><td style=\"text-align: right;\">0</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Total</strong></td><td style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>58</strong></td><td style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>2</strong></td><td style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>0</strong></td></tr></tbody></table>\n<p>Party splits: <a href=\"/lhoft?page=parties%2Fcsv\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"parties/csv\">CSV</a>, <a href=\"/lhoft?page=parties%2Fdp\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"parties/dp\">DP</a>, <a href=\"/lhoft?page=parties%2Flsap\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"parties/lsap\">LSAP</a>, <a href=\"/lhoft?page=parties%2Fadr\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"parties/adr\">ADR</a>, <a href=\"/lhoft?page=parties%2Fdei-greng\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"parties/dei-greng\">déi gréng</a>, <a href=\"/lhoft?page=parties%2Fpiraten\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"parties/piraten\">Piraten</a> voted for; <a href=\"/lhoft?page=parties%2Fdei-lenk\" class=\"wikiLink\" data-target=\"parties/dei-lenk\">déi Lénk</a> voted against.</p>\n<p>No deputy voted against the majority of their party in this vote.</p>"}