Question 12039 — telecommunications

Summary

Mr. Pierrick Courbon draws the attention of the Minister of the Economy, Finance and Industrial, Energy and Digital Sovereignty to the results of a consultation launched during the summer of 2025 aimed at collecting the opinion of the general public on the hypothesis of raising the threshold for attention to so-called “atypical” points. These are places where exposure levels to electromagnetic fields currently exceed 6 V/m and which would be now increased to 9 V/m. The National Frequency Agency (ANFR) motivates this project by its inability to cope with the number of files due to the budgetary constraints weighing on the agency and by the operators' failure to resolve these atypical points. These arguments seem difficult to accept for many stakeholders in the protection of the environment and health because the raising of the attention threshold of atypical points would contravene the spirit of the law of February 9, 2015 relating to sobriety, transparency, information and consultation regarding exposure to electromagnetic waves. This proposal implicitly recognizes what associations have been denouncing for many years, namely a State which requires the environment to adapt to "new" technologies such as the generalization of 5G and not the opposite. The explosion of mobile data leads to an increase in the exposure of those living near relay antennas; so much so that the National Frequency Agency prefers to propose an increase in the alert threshold in order to avoid intervening on a growing number of highly exposed sites. This way of doing things is, both in form and substance, intolerable. On the form, because the consultation which accompanied this proposal made appear very strong opposition from contributors, notably the Association of Mayors of France, who are mostly hostile to this unfair measure. In substance, because this alert threshold, one of the only measures making it possible to obtain a modification of radio installations, cannot be a budgetary adjustment variable but constitutes a tool serving the reduction of exposure of those living near relay antennas. By proposing to increase the attention threshold for atypical points from 6 to 9 V/m, the National Frequency Agency favors the economic interests of mobile telephone operators to the detriment of the populations who suffer the greatest exposures. He therefore asks how the Government intends to take into account the anger of the associations which go so far as to question their participation in the AFNR dialogue committee, a rare place where controversies can be expressed and where solutions can be co-constructed, and wishes to know its position on the hypothesis of raising the threshold of attention to “atypical” points.

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