The NGO believed that Emmanuel Macron, in his Belfort speech in February 2022, violated the energy transition law of 2015 and the energy roadmap (PPE), adopted by decree in 2020.
The Council of State rejected an appeal, Wednesday August 9, which had been filed by the NGO Greenpeace to contest a speech delivered by Emmanuel Macron on nuclear power. During a speech in Belfort, on February 10, 2022, the President of the Republic made several announcements on the extension of the life of existing reactors and on the construction of six new generation reactors (EPR2). The following month, the environmental association filed an appeal for “abuse of power”.
Among the arguments raised, Greenpeace maintained that these announcements violated the energy transition law of 2015 and the energy roadmap (PPE) adopted by decree in 2020, which stipulate a decline in the share of nuclear in the French electricity mix to 50% , with progressive shutdown of reactors. The NGO also believed that the decision to relaunch a nuclear program had been “taken by an incompetent authority” when she had to “be the subject of a decree issued by the Prime Minister”.
In its ruling, the Conseil d’Etat ultimately considered that the President’s announcements did not reveal “not the existence of an act capable of being challenged by way of recourse for abuse of power”. According to the highest administrative court, “Only future decisions, taken in accordance with the applicable legislative and regulatory provisions, [seraient] subject to litigation”.
The public authorities will work at the start of the school year on the energy and climate programming bill, expected in the fall, which will have to set the outlines of the country’s energy strategy to get out of fossil fuels and achieve carbon neutrality in 2050.
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