Question 2430 — animals

Summary

Ms. Geneviève Levy draws the attention of the Minister of State, Minister for Ecological and Inclusive Transition, to the scourge of the red palm weevil. France, like all other European countries, is engaged in a fight to reduce the use of phytosanitary products in crop protection. The palm tree population which concerns a large part of the southern departments is very seriously threatened by a pest: the red palm weevil. The fight for its eradication initiated in 2010 was not crowned with success, so the Commission has just lifted its compulsory control requirement. However, States must continue to implement measures to control this pest. Among these, the mass trapping of this pest, the first act of biocontrol, has been recommended by the FAO since the Rome conference in March. 2012. The regulations still in force in European countries including France still hinder this strategy involving the use of semiochemical substances, such as pheromones or essential oils. The evaluation, authorization and registration procedures for these low-risk pesticides are still most often not harmonized at European level but above all extremely cumbersome in France. This situation cannot remain as is. It therefore asks the ministry to examine favorably for these substances: the issuance of provisional authorizations, even if it means subjecting them to specific implementation constraints (traps placed overhead, pheromone reservoir not accessible), the acceleration of these evaluation, authorization and registration procedures for low-risk pesticides independently of the decisions of the Commission.

Machine translation from French. The official text remains authoritative.

Timeline

No timeline events have been ingested for this record yet.

Votes

No vote records are attached yet.

Versions

No version snapshots stored. Document URLs remain at the source.

Documents

No documents linked.

Sponsors

No sponsors or actors listed by the source.

Related records

No cross-record relationships stored yet.