Overview
- The National Assembly’s economic affairs commission voted unanimously on September 17 to examine the citizen petition challenging the Duplomb agriculture law.
- The commission bureau will set the timetable and list of hearings at its next meeting on Monday, with several weeks of testimony possible before a report is published.
- Any subsequent debate in the hemicycle would require sign‑off from the Conférence des présidents and would proceed without a vote.
- The petition surpassed two million signatures on the Assembly’s website over the summer, a level officials described as unprecedented under the Fifth Republic.
- The law remains in force after the Constitutional Council struck the planned acetamiprid reauthorization in August, as left and green groups file repeal bills and the law’s backers signal potential new legislative moves.