Overview
- The full Parliament approved the emergency agricultural law that completes a package on water, pricing, wolf culls and farm protections after final votes in the Assemblée nationale and the Sénat on Tuesday.
- The law empowers the national health agency Anses to issue exceptional, tightly limited two-month derogations for acetamiprid and flupyradifurone only for specified filières and only if scientific review finds no human or environmental risk.
- The vote exposed sharp divisions inside the presidential majority and prompted reports that Monique Barbut, the minister for Ecological Transition, could resign if the derogation remains in force.
- Environmental NGOs, medical societies and left-wing parties said they will refer the law to the Constitutional Council to argue the pesticide insertion exceeds the bill's scope and risks public health and pollinators.
- The measure revives the wider Duplomb controversy from last year and leaves concrete outcomes uncertain because the Constitutional Council decision will determine whether the new Anses derogation can stand.