Politics. Emergency Agricultural Law: Will the Insecticide Acetamiprid Be Reintroduced? The Debate Returns to the Senate
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"The government is not in favour of this development," said Minister of Agriculture Annie Genevard on Wednesday.
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The Duplomb II law was incorporated by amendment into the emergency agricultural law, which senators will examine in committee this Wednesday, then in public session from June 29.
The examination of the agricultural emergency bill in committee reveals how much senators are more sensitive to the arguments of the FNSEA than to those of the elected associations, which nevertheless constitute the electoral corps of the second chamber. Context deciphers the reasons for this amazing paradox.
The Senate Committee on Economic Affairs has added to the text, which is to be considered at the end of the month in public sitting, an amendment by Senator Duplomb. It provides for the derogatory reintroduction of two insecticides banned in France, but allowed elsewhere in Europe, despite a petition bringing together 2 million signatures last summer.
The review of the agricultural emergency bill is about to take on a rather inflammable political dimension on Wednesday with the likely addition in committee to the Senate of defied measures of the "Duplomb" law on reintroduc...
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