Senator Laurent Duplomb submits a brand new textual content to reintroduce banned pesticides | EUROtoday

A number of months after sparking an unlimited protest motion following a primary Duplomb legislation, Senator Laurent Duplomb (Les Républicains) introduced that he had tabled, Monday, February 2, a invoice aimed toward authorizing the reintroduction of a number of pesticides banned in France.

After the censorship by the Constitutional Council of sure measures contained on this first legislation, the senator from Haute-Loire reiterates his proposal with this new textual content, recorded Monday by the Senate companies, aimed toward “mitigate overtransposition relating to the use of plant protection products in order to avoid the disappearance of certain agricultural sectors”.

His invoice, the examination schedule of which isn’t but recognized, is summarized in three articles. They present for the strictly supervised reintroduction of two pesticides from the neonicotinoid household, banned in France however approved elsewhere in Europe: acetamiprid and flupyradifurone.

“We can no longer continue to procrastinate on this subject which constitutes entire sections of our food sovereignty”launched the senator throughout a convention within the Senate on the “agricultural decline”. “If we continue to turn a blind eye and sweep the dust under the rug, it would make us guilty [de voir] our children, not live less well in terms of health, but perhaps in the future be hungry”he added.

“Right to live in a balanced environment”

This shut buddy of Laurent Wauquiez, who submits this textual content with a number of centrist, macronist, radical and Horizons co-signatories, defined that the Council of State can be seized upstream of this textual content, the technical modalities of which have been designed to cross the filter of the Constitutional Council.

This summer time, the Constitutional Council had, the truth is, censored essentially the most contested provision of the primary Duplomb legislation, which supplied for the conditional reintroduction of acetamiprid. The sensible males estimated in August 2025 that “lack of sufficient supervision” on the length, sort or strategy of remedy and on the sectors involved, this measure was opposite to the Environmental Charter, which has constitutional worth and states specifically “the right to live in a balanced environment that respects health” in addition to the “duty to take part in the preservation and improvement of the environment”.

The reintroduction of acetamiprid, poisonous to biodiversity and doubtlessly to human well being, was demanded by the FNSEA and Rural Coordination (2^e union), significantly for sugar beet producers who declare to don’t have any resolution to successfully defend their crops.

A petition calling for its repeal has gathered greater than 2.1 million signatures, nicely over the five hundred,000 signature mark permitting a debate within the National Assembly. This debate will happen on Wednesday February 11 on the Palais-Bourbon.