Tuesday, February 15

Assurance-emprunteur

• The fee mixte paritaire, a fee of seven senators and 7 MPs whose mission is to evaluation payments handed by each homes, will evaluation a proposed legislation to enhance entry to assurance-emprunteur insurance coverage for folks in France.

Assurance-emprunteur is a mortgage insurance coverage taken out to compensate for any missed repayments that happen due to an surprising occasion corresponding to dying, unemployment, a protracted interval off work, or whole lack of autonomy.

Most banks use methods to make sure that house patrons start an assurance-emprunteur coverage, and, moreover, that they achieve this with them. 

Nevertheless, assurance-emprunteur shouldn’t be necessary by legislation and may be chosen freely. The proposed legislation goals to place measures in place to forestall banks from pushing clients into taking out the mortgage insurance coverage that they provide.

The proposed legislation factors out the dearth of effectivity of the ‘Lagarde legislation’ of 2010, the primary to have allowed French folks to decide on their very own assurance-emprunteur, hoping that there’ll now be a fairer, easier and extra clear extension of the legislation.

The invoice was proposed by centre-right MPs Patricia Lemoine, Olivier Becht, and Pierre-Yves Bournazel.

Orpéa nursing properties

• MPs of the Social Affairs fee will hear an account from Elodie Clair, from the Hauts-de-Seine departmental council, amid reviews of the mistreatment of aged folks in nursing properties run by the Orpéa group, a European chief within the sector.

Wednesday, 16 February

Audit accounts

Yearly round February-March, the court docket publishes a round-up of the monetary administration of most public establishments and a few personal establishments.

The 2021 version focused on the monetary administration of the Covid pandemic as an alternative of the standard round-up of public spending. The report identified that the general public well being sector was understaffed and overwhelmed with sufferers whereas missing in mattress capability.

Thursday, 17 February

Insecticide threat

• MPs will hear Senator Catherine Procaccia communicate on chlordecone, an insecticide utilized in Martinique and Guadeloupe, also referred to as Merex in anglophone international locations and below the model title Kepone in the US.

The chemical was used intensively between 1972 and 1993 in each islands to restrict the proliferation of black weevil on bananas, however severely impacted the expansion of many crops after it was revealed to have contaminated soils for the following hundred years.

Greater than 90% of individuals residing in Guadeloupe and Martinique are believed to hold chlordecone inside their our bodies, based on a 2018-study revealed by French well being physique, Santé publique france. Chlordecone is believed to extend the danger of prostate most cancers. 

Individuals who have labored with pesticides and later developed prostate most cancers have been eligible to have their well being prices lined below the work-related sickness provision since December 22, 2021.

Surname alternative

Though French folks have been formally allowed to decide on between their father or mom’s title since 2003, eight out of ten kids nonetheless have their father’s title, the invoice states.

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