A decree revealed Thursday accused of calling into query the independence of ANSES | EUROtoday

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The Minister of Agriculture and Food Sovereignty, Annie Genevard, speaks about the Duplo law during the session of questions in the government, in the National Assembly, in Paris, on July 1, 2025.

It took barely forty-eight hours for the invoice (PPL) “Aimed at lifting constraints to exercise the profession of farmer”stated PPL DUPLomb, reinvites himself to the political agenda. Thursday, July 10, two days after its last adoption within the National Assembly (316 votes for, 223 towards), the publication of a decree Awakened the anxieties of environmental defenders anxious a couple of weakening of the independence of the National Agency for Food, Environment and Labor (ANSES). “We had avoided the worst in Parliament, the attacks come back through the window”sums up a authorities supply.

Co -signed by the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Sovereignty and by the Ministry of Ecological Transition, this textual content revealed within the Official Journal signifies that “The agency director” will now must “Take into account” of a decree of the Ministry of Agriculture which is able to outline “The list of uses” The objective of pesticides aimed toward combating crop pests or undesirable vegetation. In different phrases, ANSES should contemplate the priorities of the Ministry of Agriculture when it should set up its schedule for inspecting advertising authorizations.

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