DUPLOMB law: “I hear the fears but the government wants the text to be adopted,” says Annie Genevard on TF1

• This Monday, a joint joint committee meets to find an agreement on the Act respecting the so -called Duplomb agriculture, criticized for its measures on pesticides or water reserves.
• On TF1, the Minister of Agriculture Annie Genevard recalled why the government wanted to see this adopted text.

– Duplomb law: "i hear fears

She still mobilized thousands of people against her this weekend. However, The so -called DUPLomb law is the subject of a joint joint commission on duplomb law: “i hear fears Monday. Consequently, June 30, during which seven deputies and seven senators will have to agree on a version of this bill aimed at “Raise constraints to the exercise of the farmer profession”. In addition, On TF1 this morning. Similarly, the Minister of Agriculture Annie Genevard came to say that she wanted an agreement to be reached. However, “I hear the fears that express themselves. However, but the government has a clear position: it hopes that this text will be adopted because it is a text of balance”she said. Similarly,

“It is a much awaited law for farmers (…) because it deals with many subjects”continued the minister : “The question of water. the facilitation of water storage, it deals with the simplification in the installation of breeding buildings and we are loss of food sovereignty in matters of meat so we must be able duplomb law: “i hear fears to install breeding buildings, and the reintroduction of a substance, acetamipride, which is authorized everywhere in Europe, therefore in the same production and competition space”. “The reintroduction of acetamipride is not the reintroduction of pesticides. Our country is engaged in the reduction of phytosanitary products”said Annie Genevard. But she specifies that this substance is “Authorized everywhere in Europe because it was not judged by European scientists as dangerous for the environment. human health”.

Acetamipride. a pesticide that worries

However, it is the reintroduction, certainly supervised and on a derogatory, of acetamipride, pesticide of the family of neonicotinoids prohibited in France since 2018, which worries. Its effects in humans are a source of concerns, even if the risks remain uncertain, for lack of major studies. Authorized elsewhere in Europe. it is notably claimed by producers of beets or hazelnuts, who believe that they duplomb law: “i hear fears have no other solution against pests. Conversely, beekeepers warn against “A bee killer”.

This also divides: the increase in the government’s degree of influence in the work of. the Anses health agency on pesticide authorizations. Ditto for the recovery of environmental authorization thresholds for intensive farms. or the facilitation of water storage for the irrigation of crops, whose works will be “presumed of major general interest” in certain private areas of water.

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A dozen thousand people – activists. elected officials, scientists and peasants – participated during the weekend in rallies in Paris and other cities in France to denounce the text. The Paysanne Confederation, the third union, is notably opposed. Another mobilization is announced on Monday at midday before the Senate. at the call of the “Nourrir” collective which is indignant at a law “In the service of agro-industry”.

If the joint joint committee manages to find an agreement. the text will be submitted to the Senate during a final vote on July 2, and on the 8th in the National Assembly.