Overview
- Filed on Feb. 2, the three-article proposal limits use to two insecticides and confines permissions to specified crops, with time‑bound derogations of one to three years.
- Targeted sectors named in the text include sugar beet, hazelnut, apple and cherry, reflecting claims from producers that effective alternatives are lacking.
- Senate President Gérard Larcher said he will transmit the bill to the Council of State this week, and President Emmanuel Macron urged prudence and a decision guided by that opinion.
- Agriculture Minister Annie Genevard welcomed the senator’s initiative without endorsing details, noting possible intersections with a forthcoming emergency agriculture bill.
- Opposition parties on the left and in MoDem condemned the move as a provocation, citing a petition against the earlier law that surpassed 2.1 million signatures and set a Feb. 11 Assembly debate.