The agricultural orientation law adopted in committee in the Senate

It is long awaited by the unions. Many times postponed, the agricultural orientation bill resumed this Tuesday its parliamentary path with its adoption in committee in the Senate, before its exam in public session on February 4.

The High High Chamber Economic Affairs Committee examined this text presented at the beginning of spring under the Attal government, adopting more than 130 amendments, most of them emanating from rapporteurs Laurent Dupumb (Les Républicains) and Franck Menonville (Centrist Centrist ). The left, very critical of this text and which fears an environmental decline, has opposed it.

Final voting planned for February 18

Senators will examine it much longer in the hemicycle from February 4, with a final vote scheduled for February 18, just days before the opening of the Agricultural Show scheduled from February 22 to March 2 in Paris. The bill had been adopted at first reading in the National Assembly on May 28, just before dissolution, with the votes of macronistic deputies and part of the LR deputies.

Suspended by the dissolution, postponed by the censorship of the Barnier government, it was taken up among the priorities of the new Prime Minister François Bayrou, who had it registered in the Senate Agenda as soon as possible, after the end of the examination of the budget, with an unchanged minister of agriculture to defend it, Annie Genevard (LR).

Training, administrative procedures …

The majority-center-centurist alliance in the Senate also established a principle of “non-regression of food sovereignty”, according to which “public policies having an impact on agriculture can only improve the agricultural potential of the nation” .

Among its other provisions, the text offers measures on training, or the creation of a departmental single window supposed to promote the installations and transmissions of operations. He also intends to accelerate litigation procedures in the event of recourse against storage of water or breeding buildings.

The Senate voted in committee various measures to protect farmers, reducing in particular sanctions targeting them in the event of environmental offenses or non-compliance with a declaration prior to the destruction of hedges, revealing very lively debates in the Hemicycle when examining the text.