the socialist deputies will create a commission of inquiry

The Socialist deputies announced on Friday June 2 that they were going to create a parliamentary commission of inquiry into “France’s inability to control the impacts” pesticides, accentuating the pressure already exerted on the State by several NGOs.

The PS group has decided to use its “drawing rights”, which allows it to create one commission of inquiry per year, to seek “the causes of France’s inability to achieve the objectives of successive plans to control the impact of phytosanitary products on human and environmental health”, according to a press release. It is also about carrying out investigations “on the conditions for the exercise of the missions of the public authorities in charge of health security”.

“Shedding light on interference by public or private actors”

Led by Dominique Potier, a farmer by profession, the Socialist parliamentarians say they observe “For almost a decade there has been a form of negligence, as evidenced by the lack of anticipation and support for the sugar beet sector, following the ban on the use of neonicotinoids” in 2018.

We have been observing for nearly a decade a form of negligence: France is unable to control the impacts of products #phytosanitary.

We are using our “drawing rights” to create a parliamentary commission of inquiry.

Our press release ➡️ https://t.co/t7dYeH8Bbg pic.twitter.com/7PIYB9jQHB

— Socialist and related deputies (@socialistesAN) June 2, 2023

Moreover, “the major political decision taken in 2014 to entrust the National Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health and Safety with the mission of issuing or withdrawing marketing authorizations for phytosanitary products is today publicly challenged”they denounce, wanting ” shed light on interference by public or private actors”.