Emmanuel Macron “took a good note of the decision of the Constitutional Council and will promulgate the law as deduced from this decision as soon as possible,” the Elysée announced, after the censorship of the “wise” of the reintroduction of a pesticide prohibited in the Duppomb law. The head of state now has fifteen days to promulgate the law.
Wise men have found this dispute provision provided for reintroduction under acetamipride conditions, considered contrary to the Environment Charter. On the other hand, administrative simplifications granted to larger farms, as well as to the construction of water storage work for agricultural purposes.
More than 2 million signatures for the repeal of the law
The Dupomb’s law, adopted in Parliament in early July with the support of the Government, was the subject of a vast protest movement despite the summer, even in the scientific world. A petition that demands its repeal brought together more than 2.1 million signatures.
Acetamiprid’s derogatory reintroduction, prohibited since 2018 in France but authorized in other parts of Europe, has crystallized the protest. His return was claimed by the powerful Fensea Agricultural Union, from which Senator LR Laurent Dupomb arrived, for beet and hazelnut producers.
The Constitutional Council, recently chaired by Richard Ferrand, had to make a decision under pressure from both the opinion and the agricultural world. Finally, he considered that “lack of sufficient supervision”, this measure was contrary to the “framework defined by its jurisprudence, which arises from the Environment Charter,” according to a press release. This letter has constitutional value.
“Incidents in biodiversity” and “risks to human health”
In their decision, the wise remember that neonicotinoids “have implications for biodiversity, especially for insects and pollinating birds” and “induce risks to human health.”
In 2020, they had made a temporary defeat to their prohibition, confined to the beets sector and seed coating.
This time, the Constitutional Council censures the defeat introduced in the law by pointing out that it is not limited in time, nor to a particular sector, and also refers to spray, which presents a high risk of substance dispersion.
When introducing said defeat, the legislator “has deprived of legal guarantees the right to live in a balanced and healthy environment guaranteed by article 1 of the Environment Charter,” write to wise men in their decision.
They also censored provisions that referred to the repression of certain environmental crimes, considered as “legislative rider”, that is, without sufficient link with the initial text.
Source: BFM TV
