Duplomb Act definitively adopted by Parliament

After being adopted by the Senate on July 2nd, the highly controversial bill put forward by senators Laurent Duplomb and Franck Menonville, known as the 'PPL constraints' (aimed at removing constraints on farming), was definitively adopted this week by the French National Assembly (316 votes in favor and 223 against).

✅ Adoption of the "Duplomb" bill to remove constraints on farming, taking into account the text of the joint committee.
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- Assemblée nationale (@AssembleeNat) July 8, 2025

On X (Twitter), the French minister of agriculture, Annie Genevard, welcomed the adoption of the text.
✅ Promise kept: the PPL "Entraves" is adopted!

After months of work, discussion, and compromise, this is a turning point in the lives of our farmers and a major step towards regaining our food sovereignty.

The chapter of doubts is closing... pic.twitter.com/NIy5BNo8H0
- Annie Genevard (@AnnieGenevard) July 8, 2025

She addressed the MEPs before the vote. "This is not just about passing a law, it is about closing a chapter, the chapter of doubts, and opening a path of recovery. By adopting it, you will be affirming one simple thing: that food sovereignty cannot be decreed, but it must be built, and that France knows how to keep the promises it makes to its farmers."

A highly controversial bill
The bill, which provides for the reintroduction of acetamiprid (a neonicotinoid insecticide) on a derogation basis, has met with strong opposition from left-wing MPs and environmentalists. Socialist MP Mélanie Thomin denounced it as a "major step backwards." The LFI chair of the Assembly's Economic Affairs Committee, Aurélie Trouvé, spoke of the legalization of "deadly pesticides" and of a law that "organizes the privatization of water resources and exempts us from all ordinary ecological guarantees," and denounced "a treaty of submission to agrochemicals."

Last May, more than 1,000 researchers, doctors, and carers published an open letter to the Ministers of Health, Agriculture, Labor, and Environment (the four ministries responsible for Anses) denouncing the proposed law, which includes the reintroduction of acetamiprid. Numerous environmental and health associations and NGOs have also spoken out against the bill.

"The path towards European harmonization of production conditions is opening up"
On LinkedIn, ANPP welcomed the adoption of the draft law aimed at removing constraints on the farming profession. "This vote reassures us because it opens up short-term solutions to deal with pest attacks that are impossible to control. It also opens up medium-term prospects for mobilizing water resources, without which our orchards will not be able to adapt to climate change."

"This vote represents a long-awaited response to the distress expressed for many months by the farming community"
For their part, Jeunes Agriculteurs (Young Farmers) and FNSEA (the National Federation of Farmers' Unions) salute the Members of Parliament "who have made the courageous choice to give back to French farmers the means to produce and to face up to often unfair foreign competition. They also applauded the commitment of the Minister of Agriculture and food sovereignty in favor of this text. This vote reflects a growing awareness and a long-awaited response to the distress expressed for many months by the farming community. It sends a strong signal to the men and women who produce food for us every day."

For FNSEA president Arnaud Rousseau, "the adoption of the draft law marks the culmination of more than 18 months of uninterrupted campaigning by our Jeunes Agriculteurs and FNSEA networks. Today, the ambition of food sovereignty is finally moving beyond rhetoric to become law. Members of Parliament have assumed their responsibilities. By voting in favor of this text, they have honored their commitments and recognized, by their actions, the absolute urgency of giving our agriculture the means to recover, to produce, and to last. This vote does not erase the difficulties, but it does offer a perspective."

Confédération Paysanne reacts: "The right and far right are sacrificing farmers for the benefit of agribusiness"
In a press release, Confédération Paysanne denounced a text that "ratifies extremely serious agricultural, health and ecological regressions, tailor-made for agribusiness and supported by the leaders of FNSEA, who are out of touch with their grassroots.

Encouraging the expansion of farms for industrial livestock production, monopolizing water through the construction of mega-basins, and reintroducing acetamiprid are deadly, short-term solutions. The stakes are quite different: guaranteeing farmers an income by introducing guaranteed minimum prices and setting up farms throughout the country."

According to Confédération Paysanne spokesman Thomas Gibert, "This bill does nothing to meet our main request, which is that all farmers should be able to make a decent living from their work. It will only benefit a small handful of farmers, always the same ones, who are being pushed by the leaders of FNSEA, who, as always, are only defending their own interests. This draft law is really pushing for the advent of a new agricultural model that nobody wants, a model of corporate agriculture, without farmers, run by a few financiers at the head of huge farms of several hundred or thousands of hectares, who are monopolizing everything - land, water resources - to the detriment of farmers and their health."

"A text designed for (and by) the agro-industry"
The Terre de liens movement, which works to preserve agricultural land, denounces "a text that is destructive for agriculture." It "strongly condemns the adoption of this text, calling for pressure to be maintained, in particular by appealing to the Constitutional Council. We wish to reaffirm our support for farmers and citizens committed to a vibrant and sustainable agriculture." In June, after the text had passed through the Joint Committee, Terre de Liens denounced a text "tailored for (and by) the agro-industry."

"Neither the 267,168 citizens' appeals nor the warnings from 1,200 doctors and scientists have been able to stop the mechanics of a law written in advance by the elites of the majority union and the agro-industry," wrote the association in a press release.

"Rather than draw the necessary conclusions, the MPs have taken a headlong rush forward. This text reinforces inequalities, encourages the expansion of farms, and exacerbates the precarious situation of the majority of farmers," explains Astrid Bouchedor, advocacy officer for Terre de Liens.