Faced with the major crisis caused by the spread of the coronavirus, COPACEL welcomes the Government’s preparation of the Emergency Law to deal with the Covid-19 epidemic, which should be adopted on Friday March 20. As part of the preparation of this text, COPACEL asked the public authorities that the paper industry be recognized, in accordance with article 15, as being one of the “sectors particularly necessary for the security of the Nation or for the continuity of economic and social life ”.
This recognition should allow the continuation of the activity of industrial sites essential to the life of the Nation because, as examples:
– Without papers and cardboard boxes, the production of packaging cases, bags, cardboard boxes becomes impossible and blocks supply chains (foodstuffs, medicines, medical equipment, etc.);
– Without toilet papers and cellulose pulp (handkerchiefs, hand towels, etc.), there would be a shortage of articles essential to public health and enabling the spread of the virus to stop;
– Without graphic and special papers, pharmaceutical leaflets, surgical mask papers could no longer be used by downstream industries.
This recognition must be accompanied by a wide-ranging communication from the public sphere, this in order to remind the importance of the productive sectors necessary for the security of the Nation.
Such an approach would indeed make sense of the professional involvement of employees, in a context where, understandably, many of them, despite the drastic protection measures taken by paper companies, are asking the question whether they should go to their place of work.
This recognition, finally, must secure the supply of raw materials (Paper and Cardboard for Recycling from sorting centers, etc.) and the various activities (logistics, etc.). All these activities are essential so that the French people will find in the shops, in the coming days, the food and essential products they need.
At the time of this release, several paper mills are in the process of stopping production.
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