The Agency for State Holdings is undergoing a revolution. The scheduled departure in September of its CEO, Bruno Bezard, economic mission to Beijing, is an opportunity for the state to reassert its role as shareholder. The government Tuesday appointed by the Council of Ministers Jean-Dominique Comolli, former boss of Seita, Commissioner of State Holdings. He will then head the Agency state ownership.
A new title tailored, while the state wants to take over the industrial policy of the companies in which it holds shares now on, the boss of the EPA no longer depend on the Treasury, but will report directly to the Minister of Economy. "We consider that the state must play a role that heritage," says one in the entourage of Christine Lagarde.By appointing one person with a strong political status – the commissioner – "there is also a desire to reorganize things, establish a system that discourages employers from rushing to the Elysee to discuss their small business," says near the record.
The appointment of Jean-Dominique Comolli also fits into "a major change in the role" of state ownership and the EPA, said the report of the Council of Ministers.
As the President announced when the States-General of Industry in March, this development will lead the state "to be at the forefront of driving the vision of its shareholdings and so assert, for undertakings concerned, a strategy of industrial development and economic clear long term. "
Air France, EDF, France Telecom and other Safran now know they only have to behave! Already, Nicolas Sarkozy announced that a director would be appointed representing the state "consistently" next to the Director for the Department of Economics, but now for each company in which the State is a shareholder, a formal meeting between the relevant ministers and leaders will be held each semester – in addition to those that take place informally – "to make a strategic point. More question of discovering projects at the last minute.We remember last January, the invitation to the Elysee the boss of Renault, Carlos Ghosn, who had just unveiled its intention to produce some of the Clio in Turkey IV.
Set to music complicated
The state will also require "regular reviews" on the policy of personnel management, employment, subcontracting, procurement, investment, etc..
Jean-Dominique Comolli will have to partition complex music: establishing a more readable management companies, but does not give the impression of greater interference.The EPA had she not been established in 2004 to remove the political power of corporate management, after a report by Rene Barbier de la Serre, a former banker and is the financial center, had pointed to "the presence Excessive state in the daily management of the company?
Jean-Dominique Comolli "has the perfect profile, make sure there in the ranks of government. The future commissioner, 62, near the famous head of state despite a long career in the offices of the left, knows both the workings of government and enterprise. ENA civil administrator in the Directorate of Budget from 1977 to 1981, he became after election of François Mitterrand to the presidency of the Republic adviser to Laurent Fabius.
In 1986 he was appointed Deputy Director in the Budget, before becoming in 1988 Chief of Staff Michel Charasse Budget.In September 1989 he was appointed head of Customs, before becoming president of Seita, while public group in 1993. He co-chair Altadis after its merger with Tabacalera.
Since 2005, he chaired the Board of Directors of Altadis, since bought by Britain's Imperial Tobacco – which he became vice-chairman of the board of directors in 2008. He held up his new duties on September 15.
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