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Tractors occupy part of the road before the National Assembly as part of a rally of farmers organized by the FNSEA and JA unions, upstream of a debate of deputies on the DUPLomb bill.
POLITICS – Politicalized by a part of the agricultural world, denounced by the left and environmentalists, the Duplo law is often reduced to one of its articles authorizing the framed and derogatory reintroduction of acetamipride, a neonicotinoid which was prohibited in France since 2018.
However, the text of the law includes other measures which do not always make unanimity. Overview of the key points of this law that you will still hear a lot about.
- The legitimization of “mega-bassines”
It could have been the most irritating measure of the text. Article 5 provides for a presumption of“Major general interest” For water storage structures used for crop irrigation. A provision that must facilitate procedures to obtain construction authorizations.
Highlighting by the mobilization in Sainte-Soline in 2023, the construction of these “mega-bassines” which pumping water in the water tables, is increasingly requested by part of the agricultural world. However, farmers remain divided on their number and the surface that these mega-bassines must represent. The left and environmentalists are deeply opposed to it, and denounce an grabbing of resources for the benefit of intensive agriculture.
- Simplified procedures for intensive farming
The text facilitates the expansion or the creation of intensive farming buildings. In particular, it allows, during the public inquiry, to replace the public meeting with a permanence in town hall. Environmental assessments and authorizations necessary for the establishment of larger herds will also be facilitated, via a more permissive directive than the European text on which they rested so far.
For example, as details theAFPfrom the end of 2026, a chicken coop will only have to request an authorization from 85,000 chickens against 40,000. For a pigsty, the threshold will go from 2,000 to 3,000 pigs.
- An ANSES cropping
The bill initially provided for the possibility for the government to impose “Priorities” In the work of the National Health Security Agency (ANSES) which is notably responsible for assessing the dangerousness of pesticides, but also authorizing their placing on the market. The version of the Senate proposed to create a ” guidance council », Under surveillance of the Ministry of Agriculture, as recalled Nature of Sciences.
A ” supervision Unacceptable for the left, but also for Macronie. The parliamentarians found a compromise by largely evacuating this provision to guarantee the independence of the agency. The text specifies, however, that it will have to take into account “Agronomic, phytosanitary, and environmental circumstances, including climatic people prevailing on the national territory”.
However, if it is ultimately relatively spared by the Duplo law, the agency is in parallel referred to by a decree of the government which in substance takes up the initial measure of the bill. The text also provides that the agency must take into account the priorities of the Ministry of Agriculture to establish ” The schedule for examining the marketing authorization requests (MA) of plant protection products ». And « passage “Denounced by NGOs including Act for the environment who filed an appeal to the Council of State Monday, July 21.
