Pollinis, our business to all and three other environmental organizations want to compel the government to revise the process of authorization of phytosanitary products.
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The government did not respond to the formal notice from September 2021 by several environmental associations. Monday, January 10, 2022, they decided to go to the next stage: gathered before the Paris Administrative Court, their representatives announced that they have filed a faulty remedy against the French State for failing to default. biodiversity. They are specifically targeting gaps in the authorization and marketing process for phytosanitary products.
“Scientific studies show that the populations of insects, but also birds, amphibians, small mammals or earthworms are down, details Julie Fisherman, advocacy director of the Protection Association Pollini pollinators. All ordinary biodiversity in France and Europe is collapse. Now, researchers are almost always designating the immoderate use of pesticides as one of the major causes of collapse. “” We in the sixth mass extinction and the use of pesticides is one of the most important factors; it therefore seemed important to act, “adds Manon Delattre, a lawyer to the Association for the Protection of Wild Animals (Aspas. ).
With the National Association for the Protection of Waters and Rivers (Anper-TOS) and Biodiversity Under our feet, Aspas joined Pollinis and our business to all, which had launched the procedure on the occasion of the World Congress of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature in Marseille, in September. The Association of Jurists Our matter at all is also at the origin of “the case of the century”, which led the justice to order the Government to “repair the ecological injury” which it is responsible, because of the non- Respect for its commitments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
“Emergency action needs to be taken”
By this new procedure concerning biodiversity, unpublished on a European scale, the five associations require the full revision of the pesticide approval process. The European regulation of 2009 , according to which products manufactured or on the market must have” no adverse environmental effects “, is considered one of the most protectors in the world. But in practice, the faults of the risk assessment system have been long-standing.
In their summary request filed Monday, that Le Monde was able to consult, the organizations for the defense of the environment refer to a series of shortcomings and call for taking into account the chronic toxicity of the evaluated substances (and not only the toxicity acute), the “cocktail” effects (the consequences of multi-substance coexposition), supersetal effects, deferred effects or those on non-target species.
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