Pesticides and intensive livestock farming: nearly 3,500 amendments tabled on the “Duplomb” law

By The New Obs with AFP

Published on May 23, 2025 at 8:02 a.m.

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The breeding ground for a political battle in Parliament, the so-called "Duplomb" bill, a flagship measure of which reintroduces an insecticide from the neonicotinoid family as an exception, is the subject of nearly 3,500 amendments, a large majority of which come from environmentalists.

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The number is not final: amendments can still be withdrawn or declared inadmissible because they constitute a financial burden or are considered too far removed from the text, already adopted in the upper house on the initiative of LR Senator Laurent Duplomb.

But they demonstrate the willingness of a section of the left and the ecologists to fight, and this "step by step, paragraph by paragraph" , in the words of the ecologist MP and former minister Delphine Batho. The ecologists have tabled nearly 1,500 amendments, the Insoumis nearly 800.

“Trumpian inspiration”

"This reflects a full-fledged obstruction by the far-left bloc," denounces the text's rapporteur, Julien Dive (LR). "With some rather questionable amendments on the substance, it will only have the effect of further annoying the agricultural world," he predicts. Criticizing "the Trumpian inspiration of this text," Delphine Batho, on the contrary, defends "serious amendments" on a "long" text (27 articles).

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But the number of amendments will, whatever happens, be at the heart of the debates in the hemicycle , scheduled at this stage from May 26 to 31, and which could be fragmented. All this in a tense context, between farmers' demonstrations and damage to MPs' offices. Many parliamentarians wishing to spend the Ascension Day bank holiday in their constituencies, while they will have already sat the two previous weekends, the Assembly and the government discussed a change to the agenda on Wednesday, May 22. If it is confirmed at the next Conference of Presidents on Tuesday, the MPs would not sit on May 30 and 31, and would work on another Saturday in mid-June.

In addition to the article on both pesticides and the government's influence on the work of the health agency Anses, the text includes measures on the expansion of livestock farms . A divisive provision to facilitate water storage was rejected in committee, and the government will propose its reintroduction, promising "a balance between environmental issues and the needs of agriculture." On the issue of livestock farming , it will seek the right to legislate by order on thresholds, to create a special regime corresponding to the expectations of livestock farmers.

"As it stands, this bill does not have a certain majority in Parliament to be adopted and, moreover, contains several unconstitutional provisions," warned the leader of the MoDem deputies Marc Fesneau on Thursday evening, in a letter addressed to the president of the French Chambers of Agriculture and to the presidents of the regional and departmental Chambers of Agriculture. My group will ensure that "we find a solution for each measure so that this bill can be adopted," he assured.

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