MPs validate authorities invoice in committee | EUROtoday

After thirty-five hours of debate this week, the deputies authorised, Saturday May 4, in committee the federal government's agricultural invoice, specifically validating the measures to simplify disputes for water reservoir initiatives and new buildings above-ground breeding.

After the vote, the Minister of Agriculture, Marc Fesneau, referred to as for “ensure that the agricultural world finds meaning and understands what we want from it”and to him “provide the means to pass the immense milestone of generational renewal”.

The deputies of the presidential camp (Renaissance, MoDem and Horizons) voted for the invoice. Those on the left (LFI, PS and Ecologist) opposed it. The proper, the National Rally and the independents of LIOT abstained. If the debates have been calmed, the opposition lengthy deplored a scarcity of ambition within the invoice. “Many subjects are absent: income, land and adaptation to climate change”listed David Taupiac (LIOT).

Criticisms from the left

The invoice combines measures on coaching, operational transmissions, and even the“acceleration of litigation” within the occasion of an enchantment in opposition to water storage initiatives or the development of livestock buildings, regardless of alerts from the Council of State on “constitutionality risks”.

The authorities can be looking for the suitable to change by order the repression of sure environmental offenses, for instance by reclassifying legal sanctions as administrative sanctions. It is that this contested facet that the deputies authorised on Saturday, regardless of criticism from the left, which, along with its opposition to legislating by ordinance, is frightened about seeing this reassessment of the dimensions of penalties being completed to the detriment of environmental safety.

The minister introduced that the scope of this reassessment of sentences can be included “in the hard part” between now and the arrival of the textual content within the hemicycle in order that deputies can vote with full information of the details.

The deputies additionally took a step in the direction of a “right to make mistakes” farmers, by approving, on the initiative of LR, the truth that ” good faith “ of an operator “is presumed” throughout an administrative management, even when the suitable intends to go additional in public session. The textual content should now be examined within the hemicycle from May 14.