This subject was submitted on 21 may at the last commission of finance

The initiative somewhat surprised the relatives of the Socialist President of the Regional Council of Ile-de-France, Jean-Paul Huchon. Europe ecology, the green component of its majority, yesterday announced that the Regional Council will vote in 15 days, on his proposal, a deliberation on the rules of transparency sought from banks and financial institutions called upon to work with the region. In the future, the region, which could borrow up to 971 million euros this year - his debt amounted to 3.1 billion in 2009 - will therefore be even more careful than today ' to the policy of financial institutions to which it will address. It will ask them "to clarify their situation or that of the entities in which they have a majority participation on the list of non-cooperative States" (havens) established every year by the Ministry of finance. Likewise, should refer to the "tools they have to fight against money laundering, corruption and tax fraud."

Is that legal tools are not yet in place. It will be that "the rules applicable to the purchase of financial services opens up the possibility" to exclude offers from institutions that do not match these criteria.

The presidential majority in the regional group expressed "support for this principle of vigilance" and was pleased to see the region "following the policy of the Government in this matter" but warns that it will be "very attentive to the methodology used. He joined the Socialists, attached to a formula "mostly rigid step" who prefer to refer to "a modest experiment" explaining unable to "substitute for a law that does not exist."

"Matter of ethics".

The Ile-de-France region is not the only one to be taken in the direction of this moral. More quietly, the elected representatives of Rhône-Alpes have also started to explore. "This subject was submitted on 21 may, at the last commission of finance." It has been requested the services of the region concerned to work on the subject. "It is not to make an announcement effect which is not applicable later", said Eric Piolle, Vice-President of the European ecology group. His movement between the two towers of the regional had obtained without any difficulty on the part of the PS that Community loans are "contracted from banking organizations unrelated to tax havens".

The Paca region, in its majority the judge Laurence Vichnievsky is not at rest. The ecologist group to which the elected belongs, did adopt the same type of vow at the first plenary meeting of the new parliamentary term. "I wish now that the Regional Council quickly realized the work on these issues of ethics, transparency and governance," said the former magistrate of affairs Elf, Dumas and frigates of Taiwan.

At the Association of regions of France (ARF), is no doubt the usefulness of these first initiatives. "Financial institutions that have nothing to blame to have no reason not to disclose the information they are requested." "Those who will not play the game of transparency exclude de facto," said one of its representatives. "It's a declarative measure that backs on non-binding assessment criteria." "I doubt that the banks dare go on the grounds of falsehood", confirms Laurence Vichnievsky.