Decryption – Before the possible promulgation of the DUPLOM law, adopted on July 8, the use of the controversial neonicotinoid remains prohibited in France while the European Union authorized it until 2033. Le Figaro takes stock of the state of European law on this subject.
The DUPLOM law, definitively adopted at the Palais Bourbon two weeks ago, is now faced with a great dispute. This is embodied by a petition deposited on the site of the National Assembly by a 23-year-old student who collected more than 1.6 million signatures in just 12 days, reacting the entire political class. The debates crystallize around the reintroduction as a derogatory and under conditions of acetamipride, a pesticide of the family of neonicotinoids whose consequences on the environment and human health are worrying without being consensual. Actors of the agricultural world such as the president of the FNSEA Arnaud Rousseau have compared the state of French law with that of European law to justify such a measure.
In France, the law for the reconquest of biodiversity of August 8, 2016 prohibited the use of all active substances of the family of neonicotinoids in phytopharmaceutical products …
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