French MPs vote down glyphosate ban

France's Government wanted to enshrine a commitment to phase out glyphosate into law, but could not get it through Parliament.

Thomas Hubert

6 June 2018

French Agriculture Minister Stéphane Travert.

France's National Assembly has voted against a Government bill to ban glyphosate in three years' time. The deadline was a promise of President Emmanuel Macron's Government when the country agreed to re-authorise the leading herbicide ingredient at EU level last year.

A far-reaching farming bill currently before parliament included an obligation to phase out glyphosate by 2021, but MPs voted down this article.

Minister for Agriculture Stéphane Travert has told French media that the Government remainscommitted to the three-year deadline.

Irish adults have low exposure to glyphosate - NUIG

Pesticide authorisation to be examined

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