Home » Business » How the French Government is Removing Legal Barriers to Promote Innovation in Industry

How the French Government is Removing Legal Barriers to Promote Innovation in Industry

Emmanuel Macron traveling to the Novo Nordisk factory in Chartres last November.
MOHAMMED BADRA / AFP

Very effective but little known, an interministerial unit makes it possible to experiment with innovative projects, sometimes leading to the definitive modification of certain regulations.

Heavy, complex, infernal… the French administrative machine does not have good press with the bosses. But if France is known for being the country with 400,000 standards, sometimes the State questions itself. And goes so far as to lift its own legal and regulatory barriers. He thus removed a legal blockage preventing Danone to develop a solution to save 30% water per year on one of its production sites, a Veolia to develop an innovative irrigation solution, or the start-up OKE CHARGE to launch a shared electric vehicle charging service.

“This is proof of the open-mindedness that the State can be capable of allowing us, industrialists, to develop innovative and disruptive projects”rejoices Patrick Hamiel, vice-president of the French subsidiary of Novo Nordisk in charge of economic affairs, who benefited from the flexibility of the administration to launch the recycling of…

2024-04-14 05:52:59
#Aberrant #standards #unenforceable #obligations #companies #circumvent #State #rules #completely #legally

Leave a Comment

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.