Overview

• The Toulouse administrative court of appeal is evaluating the government's request to suspend a February ruling that halted A69 highway construction over environmental permit issues.
• The public rapporteur has recommended supporting the suspension, which would allow work to resume temporarily while the appeal is reviewed.
• In parallel, the National Assembly's Sustainable Development Committee is debating a Senate-approved bill to retroactively validate permits annulled by the February court ruling.
• The proposed law has been criticized by left-wing and ecologist lawmakers as undermining judicial independence, while right-wing and RN deputies support it, citing economic and regional connectivity concerns.
• Opponents of the A69 have announced a symbolic protest event, a 'fête d’enterrement,' scheduled for July 5 in Tarn, to resist the project’s continuation.