Spreading standards, reforms of the common agricultural policy (CAP), rural code, vulnerable areas… A dozen large binders overflowing with regulations of all kinds fill the wheelbarrow decorated with the pennants of Young Farmers (JA) and the FDSEA 39 This Thursday, November 28, on a farm in Ruffey-sur-Seille, the dozen farmers included in the majority union welcomed the press to present – once again – their demands. A week after the demonstrations against the EU-Mercosur agreement, and a month and a half before the agricultural orientation bill, which will be debated in the Senate from January 14.
“A Parisian vision of things”
“Successive governments have been saying for fifteen years that they are going to work on administrative simplification. At one point, we say “stop”. » Christophe Buchet, president of the FDSEA 39 is heated: he denounces the “administrative inconsistencies”, the “overtransposition” of standards, the payment delays of the common agricultural policy (CAP), the excess of controls and a “Parisian vision things that put the precautionary principle above all else. » “It seems legitimate to us to be able to discuss certain things at the departmental level,” he adds.
Christophe Buchet then spoke out against the reports issued against farmers. “We have given the right to anyone to say anything, with complete impunity,” he is indignant, arguing for a revision of the status of whistleblower, which protects citizens at the same time. origin of these reports of criminal proceedings. Indirectly targeted are associations like L214, whose freedom to inform could be “attacked”.
The FDSEA 39 and the JA are considering actions in the coming days. The unions are currently awaiting instructions from national authorities.
