Left deputies seize the Constitutional Council to censor the textual content | EUROtoday

The “rebellious” deputies, environmentalists and communists filed on Friday 11 July an enchantment to the Constitutional Council towards the Duplomb legislation on agriculture. Parliamentarians specifically dispute the reintroduction below the circumstances of a pesticide which they take into account incompatible with the preservation of the setting and the best to well being.

Adopted on July 8 within the Parliament, this legislation supplies specifically the reintroduction as a derogatory and below circumstances of acetamipride, pesticide of the household of neonicotinoids, prohibited in France however licensed in Europe. The textual content supplies for a reintroduction immediately, with nonetheless a evaluation clause by a supervisory board, three years later, then annual.

But for the candidates, the derogation itself “Is not framed neither in space nor in time” And “The use of neonicotinoids is not circumscribed to defined agricultural production sectors”. They choose that reintroduction even in derogation contravenes the ideas of precaution and environmental non-regression.

They additionally imagine that there isn’t a “Legal characterization of what a serious threat could constitute compromising agricultural production”alleged to discovered the exemption to make use of acetamipride. “The scientific knowledge of the effects of acetamipride on human health have highlighted even more worrying concerns than they were in 2016, when the law prohibiting these products”they nonetheless argue, believing that the “Law ignores the objective of constitutional value of protection of human health”.

A textual content “adopted without debate”

The enchantment additionally goals at measures facilitating the growth or the creation of intensive farming buildings. During the general public inquiry, info conferences could also be changed by a permanence on the town corridor. According to parliamentarians, this restricted provision “Public ability to learn and invest in local environmental democracy”.

They additionally goal for the article which supplies specifically a presumption of“Major general interest” For sure water storage works, with the intention of facilitating constructions. The candidates choose that this presumption “Dispensate authorities to examine environmental risks”.

Finally, on the shape, the authors of the enchantment denounce the circumstances for analyzing the textual content. In the Assembly, he had been the topic of a movement of prior rejection, deposited by his personal rapporteur, Julien Dive (LR), but favorable to the legislation. Mr. Dive had justified it by the“Obstruction” from the left, which had deposited a number of thousand amendments.

It was used “To prevent the National Assembly from debating, and the opposition to exercise its constitutional law of amendment”. The authors of the enchantment due to this fact help “That the whole of this text, adopted without debate, must be censored for procedural defect”.