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“We reviewed all the files.” Ten days after the lifting of the blockages, Gabriel Attal met, Tuesday February 13, in Matignon the representatives of the FNSEA and the Young Farmers (JA), who are maintaining pressure on the executive less than two weeks before the Salon de agriculture. “It went well. We continue to move forward. On simplification, it’s encouraging. Now, everything must be in place at the time of the show”, declared Arnaud Rousseau, the president of the powerful FNSEA, upon leaving Matignon. Follow our live stream.
New actions to come? The president of the majority union FNSEA warned that farmers were “ready to go back into action” if the concrete measures expected from the government were not there by the Agricultural Show, which will be held from February 24 to March 3.
The unions also received at the Elysée. Emmanuel Macron will receive the Rural Coordination and the Peasant Confederation on Wednesday, before the FNSEA and the Young Farmers “next week”, specified the Elysée. A usual meeting before the Agricultural Show.
Brussels adopts exemption from fallow obligations. The European Commission has adopted for the year 2024 a partial exemption from the fallow obligations provided for by the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), a key demand of recent agricultural protests. To receive CAP aid, farmers will now have to leave at least 4% of arable land in intermediate or nitrogen-fixing crops (lentils, peas, etc.) and no longer just in fallow and non-productive areas (hedges). , groves, ponds…). This threshold has also been lowered compared to 7% initially proposed at the end of January.
NGOs leave a meeting on pesticides. Eight environmental NGOs announced that they had left a meeting on the Ecophyto plan, which was held at the Ministry of Agriculture. This plan, which aims to halve the use of pesticides by 2030 (compared to 2015-2017), was suspended by Gabriel Attal. A decision which satisfied the majority agricultural unions and dismayed environmental associations.
