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Measures to promote sustainable food in school canteens

As part of the stimulus package, a €50 million aid plan for canteens in small towns has been put in place. The aim: to enable them to equip themselves to promote their supply of healthy, sustainable and local products.

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Cantine scolaire avec élèves
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The measure concerns:

  • the purchase of equipment and materials needed for cooking, processing fresh produce (peeler, spinner, vegetable-cutting robot, preparation robot...), combating waste (refrigerated cabinet, sorting table, salad bar, raw vegetable and fruit salad bar...);
  • intangible investments (software, electronic communication media...);
  • intellectual services (audits, studies, training for kitchen staff).

The aid is aimed at the most fragile communes (eligible for the target fraction of the rural solidarity grant - DSR - in 2020), or their public establishments for inter-communal cooperation (EPCIs), as well as all communes in Guadeloupe, Guyana, Martinique, Mayotte and La Réunion (and their EPCIs).

To qualify for assistance, local authorities must meet the eligibility criteria and submit an application to the Agence de Service et de Paiement (ASP), which is responsible for examining applications and financing those selected. Nearly 6,000 local authorities are expected to be concerned by this measure.

As a reminder..

The EGalim Law of 2018 calls for at least 50% by value of the meals served in public collective catering to be made up of sustainable food products, in particular under SIQO, by January 1, 2022.

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