Elysee reports bills on racism, CBAM, and rectors - Speech Brief
9 July 2026 00:00 UTC · Elysee · Elysee Statement · Source · Email X Link

Elysee reports bills on racism, CBAM, and rectors

Key points

  • Bill to strengthen fight against racism and antisemitism
  • Ratification of Ordinance No. 2026-326 for CBAM and decree on rector appointments

TL;DR

  • The Prime Minister presented a bill for republican cohesion to fight racism and antisemitism, citing more than 16,000 recorded offences in 2024 and an estimated 1.7 million people experiencing at least one racist incident annually.
  • The bill extends aggravating circumstances to all crimes and misdemeanours, allows anti-discrimination associations to bring civil suits, permits employers to file complaints on behalf of employees on public service missions, clarifies the boundaries of Holocaust denial and enables penalties of ineligibility, and seeks removal of hateful statements via the Pharos platform.
  • The Minister for the Ecological Transition presented a bill ratifying Ordinance No. 2026-326 adapting French law to apply Regulation (EU) 2023/956, enabling information sharing by the Directorate General of Public Finances and the Banque de France with the administrative authority responsible for the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) and pursuing implementation since 1 January 2026, including a future "tell us once" principle for online procedures.
  • The Minister of National Education and the Minister of Higher Education, Research and Space presented a decree amending procedures for appointing rectors following the 2020 territorial reform.
Original text

PROJET DE LOI Cohésion républicaine par la lutte contre le racisme et l’antisémitisme Ratification de l’ordonnance n° 2026-326 du 29 avril 2026 portant adaptation du droit français aux textes pris pour l’application du règlement (UE) 2023/956 du Parlement européen et du Conseil du 10 mai 2023 DECRET Modification des modalités de nomination des recteurs COMMUNICATION Bilan de l’application des lois MESURES D'ORDRE IND...

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