It is a "belle endormie" that Nicolas Sarkozy has come to wake up today in Alsace. During a visit to the sawmill Siat-Braun, Urmatt, the President of the Republic must announce a series of measures to boost the sector wood, which carries out 40 billion euros of turnover per year, with 450,000 persons, but is very scattered and accuses a huge trade deficit.
The lighthouses decisions include the creation of a strategic Fund, on the model of funds to assist sectors of aerospace, automotive and may soon biotechnology. With 100 to 150 million euros, it would be launched with the State, the Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations, institutional financiers, Ademe, the NFB, industrialists concerned, etc. This creation is one of the measures recommended by Jean Puech in a report commissioned by Nicolas Sarkozy in December and released the month last the President of the Republic. The first operations of the Fund "may be announced soon, the first half", said the report.
In total, the former Minister of Agriculture and the fishing of Edouard Balladur made 41 proposals, among which 9 are presented as"lighthouses". Beyond the development of a joint to create a true "spirit of die", Jean Puech advocates to triple the price for the purchase of electricity from the wood, the bearing to 150 euros per megawatt-hour. And multiply by 10 the minimum threshold of incorporation of wood in construction. "Despite the framework agreement signed by the State and the occupation of the building in March 2001 ..." "the share of wood in the construction is still stagnant 10, then the objective was to carry it to 12.5 in 2010," points the report. A measure falling within the text of Grenelle of the environment and, in particular, its article 29.
From shortages feared
In fact, the French tend to sanctuarize the forest, the third in Europe, in a paradoxical attitude of its operation. In the end, only 60 annual production are consumed, while 36 million cubic metres of timber remain on foot. It is therefore feared shortages. As the sector suffers from the crisis that affects the economy since mid-2008, because the wood is highly correlated with the construction market. It is also very linked to the packaging sector, whose activity has fallen by 40. "Currently, we cannot get more wood, because the market it not absorb due to economic conditions." "Our biggest concern is to preserve the human potential to exit from the crisis," says Marie de L'estoile, President of the Union of the forest cooperation française.
The forests of the hexagon have also suffered storms of 1999 and beginning of 2009 (read here). A phenomenon unfortunately foreseeable because the forest, which continues to grow to 25,000 hectares per year, has been largely converted from coppice, offering less decision-making to the wind, in woodland.
The recommended measures must achieve the objectives set at the outcome of the work of the round table. The horizon of 2012, the sector must be able to produce 12 million cubic metres of additional timber, which would be the creation of 30,000 jobs. At the end of 2020, the production must be increased to 21 million cubic metres, with 80,000 new jobs.
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