France's Council of Ministers have approved a Paris 2024 bill ©Getty Images

A bill has been adopted by France's Council of Ministers which could see video surveillance cameras used at the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games if accepted by the Senate when it is sent on January 24.

The "intelligent, but anonymised algorithms" are hoped to help manage crowd movements in transport.

The country's Sports Minister Amélie Oudéa-Castéra has guaranteed that it will not feature facial recognition technology.

The bill specifies that the cameras will be used "exclusively to a signalling of attention, strictly limited to the indication of the event or events that they have been programmed to detect" and that the use of this tool cannot lead to "any individual decision or act of prosecution," as reported by Le Monde.

Body scanners, as used in airports, are also authorised by the bill.

It will allow judicial bans on stadiums "from now on be a compulsory complementary measure and not no longer optional for a certain number of offenses linked to violence or disturbances during sporting events."

The bill also aims to authorise Sunday work in shops between June 1 and September 30.

Amélie Oudéa-Castéra has said she is favourable to all businesses being able to open on Sundays beyond Paris 2024 ©Getty Images
Amélie Oudéa-Castéra has said she is favourable to all businesses being able to open on Sundays beyond Paris 2024 ©Getty Images

This can only be done on the basis that employees are either volunteering or earning twice the amount they would on another day.

Oudéa-Castéra said that she was "favourable" to the law going beyond the Games and authorising businesses to open on twelve Sundays per year but specified that "it is not on the agenda".

The bill also proposes that certain rules governing advertising should be put on hold during the three-month-long Olympic Torch Relay, which begins in April 2024.

It will allow the Relay's sponsors to have advertising panels near historical monuments 15 days before the Flame passes and seven days after.

In terms of transport, the Government wants to proceed with the creation of new taxi licenses to help transport disabled people.

The plan aims to make 100,000 taxis accessible to people with reduced mobility as only 200 are currently registered.

It also looks to authorise foreign doctors to practice during the Games.