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Draft orientation law on agriculture: “short-term gifts” according to the vice-president of France Nature Environnement
Cécile Claveirole, vice-president of France Nature Environnement (FNE) and Luc Smessaert, vice-president of the FNSEA are the guests of 12/13 info, Wednesday April 3, while the draft orientation law on agriculture is presented to the Council of Ministers.
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Cécile Claveirole, vice-president of France Nature Environnement (FNE) and Luc Smessaert, vice-president of the FNSEA are the guests of 12/13 info, Wednesday April 3, while the draft orientation law on agriculture is presented to the Council of Ministers.
The draft orientation law on agriculture is presented on Wednesday April 3 to the Council of Ministers. This project must, among other things, promote the transmission and settlement of young people. Luc Smessaert, vice-president of the FNSEA, guest of 12/13, info, Wednesday April 3, requests in particular that there bet “no ban without solution”. Farmers also asked for a simplification of several standards, such as those concerning hedges.
No measures concerning phytosanitary products
According to Cécile Claveirole, vice-president of France Nature Environnement (FNE), the proposed measures are “short-term gifts, and are not answers to the majority of farmers who were on the blockades and in the demonstrations”. For the vice-president of the FNSEA, the reduction of constraints will push young people to settle down. Cécile Claveirole recalls that a “breeding of 30 or 50 cows, on grass, does not need authorization for breeding buildings”. She regrets that there are not yet measures for phytosanitary products.