“Administrative simplification should not prevail over democracy and our constitutional rights! » | EUROtoday

MOn January 30, in entrance of the nationwide illustration, the Prime Minister, Gabriel Attal, delivered his basic coverage speech and introduced the submission of a second “green industry” invoice, including that it “will propose in particular to concentrate the work of the CNDP [Commission nationale du débat public] only on projects of national scope. That’s six months saved in procedures on other projects.”

In the sadly nearly basic silence, we’re witnessing a brand new assault on democracy and the rights to data and participation assured by the Constitution.

The new sufferer of this discount in democratic area has a face and a reputation: the National Commission for Public Debate. This announcement attracts its supply from a report submitted to Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne in December 2023, rather more express: “The referral to the CNDP therefore constitutes a major factor in complexity and extension of deadlines for the investor, without the State being able to intervene to accelerate the consultation and debate procedures” (Charles Rodwell, “For a policy of “attack” attractiveness within the service of the independence and financial safety of France”).

With conviction and professionalism

All disgrace drunk, it’s subsequently proposed to take away the obligatory referral to the CNDP for native initiatives regarding the “green industry”. However, the CNDP will not be an administrative authority like another or yet one more committee of consultants. For twenty years, its mission has been to defend the constitutional rights of knowledge and public participation in choices having a powerful environmental impression (as offered for in Article 7 of the Environmental Charter).

These are ladies and men who perform with conviction and professionalism an important mission: guaranteeing that residents impacted by the implementation of a undertaking within the territory the place they dwell can have information of it and debate it. Environmental democracy is intertwined right here with native democracy and the standard of public debate.

The temptation to avoid wasting a couple of months will not be value the fee it entails: the discount of our constitutional rights and the danger of environmental harm hidden from view. Assuming that the success of the ecological transition is simply a matter of latest, greener industries, the federal government goes the fallacious manner.

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