Overview
- Lawmakers held an unprecedented but non-binding debate on a record 2.1 million-signature petition, a format that involves no vote and cannot change the Loi Duplomb.
- The executive signaled no clear support for a revised Duplomb text, saying it will await the Conseil d'État’s opinion; the prime minister has also excluded the measure from the forthcoming agricultural emergency bill.
- Agriculture minister Annie Genevard said she is personally open to strictly controlled derogations, while Senator Laurent Duplomb has refiled a proposal and the Senate is preparing a cross-party bill that could allow temporary exemptions for up to three years.
- Acetamiprid remains banned in France after the Constitutional Council struck its reintroduction for insufficient safeguards, even though the pesticide is authorized elsewhere in the EU.
- Hundreds protested near the National Assembly with support from more than 200 organizations, and a new counter-petition opposing “Duplomb 2” has surpassed 180,000 signatures.