The Parliament definitely adopted on Tuesday, July 8, the proposal of an agricultural law DUPLOomb-Menonville, including, among other things, a measure measured reintroduction under the conditions of a neonicotinoid pesticide.
Started by Senators Laurent Dupumb (LR) and Franck Menonville (UDI, Center), the bill adopted by 316 votes against 223 during a last session on Tuesday in the Assembly, is presented as one of the responses to the wrath of the farmers of winter 2024.
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Presented as an response to the agricultural wrath of 2024, and claimed by the Fensea and its allies of young farmers, the Duplab law is criticized by the conferration Paysanne, the third French agricultural union.
Duplom’s law has also mobilized several groups against it, including cancer patients and environmentalists, who have alerted the consequences on health and the reintroduction environment in a danger and in acetamiprid conditions, pesticide of the neonicotinoid family.
Francelyne Marano, environmental toxicologist and vice president of the League against Cancer, guest of the BFMTV before the final adoption of the text, expressed concern about the reintroduction of certain pesticides denounced as carcinogens, and denounced insufficient vigilance, especially for children.
“The vote of this law is to confirm that most elected officials continue to promote an agroindustrial model that in no way meets the expectations of the peasant world. All the anger that brought us back to the street last year was to ask for a decent income,” he reacted to Fanny Metrat, spokesman for the Pacs Confederation.
Acetamipride, “a bee murderer”
Forbidden in France, but authorized in other parts of Europe until 2033, the effects of acetamiprid on humans are a source of concerns, even if the risks remain uncertain, due to lack of magnitude. The product is remarkably claimed by beet or hazelnut producers, who believe they have no alternative against pests and undergo unfair competition. On the contrary, beekeepers warn against “a bee murderer.”
The text provides reintroduction without establishing a delay. However, with a review clause of the Supervision Board, three years later, then annual, to verify that the authorization criteria are still fulfilled.
The Minister of Agriculture, Annie Ginevard (LR), defended this text to allow agriculture to “take its place in the ecological transition without being the collateral victim.” The rapporteur LR Julien Dive stressed the safeguards in the text and estimated that the areas in question would reach a maximum of 500,000 hectares, or “1.7% of agricultural areas.”
The National Institute of Research for Agriculture (INRAE) “already identifies the sectors in question” and “its conclusions are expected in autumn,” according to Annie Genevard.
THE LEFT AGAINST THE DUPLOMBO LAW
The left and environmentalists have opposed the text. It is a “great decline,” he judged the socialist deputy Mélanie Thomin, her group denouncing “a new stage of the reactionary offensive of the lines against ecology.”
This law “legalized by mortal pesticides, organizes the privatization of water resources, exempt from all ordinary ecological guarantees,” said Tancé Aurélie, president of the Economic Affairs Committee of the Assembly. The deputy criticized “a treatise on agrochemicals.”
“We will never vote for this law, quite nutritious,” said his colleague Manon Meunier, who announced a bill to “improve the recognition and compensation of pesticide victims.” “The Government has lost the battle of opinion. You have lost scientists, patients with pesticides, beekeepers,” said the environmental deputy and former minister Delphine Batho.
On the contrary, the vast majority of the government’s coalition and the RN-UDR alliance voted. The macronist group together for the Republic voted in two thirds (14 against, 10 abstentions). Nine modern deputies and three horizons also voted against.
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“This text is certainly a victory, but a partial victory,” said Hervé de Lépinau (RN), referring to “2027” an in -depth review of the conditions of exercise of farmers.
The law brings “new answers to help our farmers,” considered the Macronist Jean-Luc Fugit. This text “is not ultimately a cartoon that we would like to do on the one hand, or a miraculous response,” Eric Martineau (Modem) evaluated.
The text also provides measures to facilitate water storage for irrigation, in a context of rarefaction linked to climate change. But the left criticizes the “maladjustment.” As well as she protests against the measures that provide the expansion or creation of intensive agricultural buildings.
The insufficient parliamentarians, environmentalists and socialists have announced that they would appeal to the Constitutional Council, believing some that the law contravenes the principles of precaution and non -environmental regression.
Source: BFM TV
