The decision of the Constitutional Council to censor the reintroduction of Acetamipride pesticides maintains “a divergence between French law and European law” and the “conditions for inequitable competence that increase the risk of disappearance of certain sectors,” said Agriculture Minister Annie GeneGard on Thursday night.
“Inrae carries out the work at the request to identify the sectors placed in a dead end: they will find the government at their side so as not to leave them without a solution,” added the minister, who supported the return, in conditions, of this product forbidden in France since 2018, but authorized until 2033 in another place of the European Union.
Annie Ginevard thus refers to the expression, popularized by the Fensea and largely adopted by the Government and President Emmanuel Macron, “without prohibition without solution.” However, the Minister of Agriculture praised the validation of other articles of the law that “will allow concrete advances for our farmers.” According to her, the Duplo law allowed “the derogatory and very framed use of acetamipride.”
“Impacts on biodiversity”
The Constitutional Council considered that the reintroduction of acetamipride, a pesticide of the neonicotinoid family, was not sufficiently framed, observing that it was not limited in time, or a particular sector, and also referred to spray, with the high risks of substance dispersion. Therefore, it is in accordance with the wise contrary to the “framework defined by its jurisprudence, which arises from the Environment Charter.”
In their decision, the wise remember that neonicotinoids “have implications for biodiversity, especially for insects and pollinating birds” and “induce risks to human health.”
The reintroduction of acetamipride was claimed by rural coordination and Fensea, particularly for sugar beets producers, who claim to have no solution to effectively protect their cultures from the prohibition of neonicotinoids in 2018 in France. Producers fear the competence of sugar and hazelnut imports produced with prohibited pesticides in France.
In 2020, at the request of the beets that face the invasions of aphids, a possibility of temporary repeal to this sector for wrapped seeds and, after an episode of jaundice (28% losses for the sector) is granted, the government launches a six -year plan with beets and scientists to get out of the neonicotinoids.
Source: BFM TV
