The tax credit for farmers who no longer use glyphosate-based herbicide, a provision attached to the finance law for 2021, comes into force in France, according to a decree published this Saturday in the Official Journal.
This text concerns agricultural companies - with the exception of nurseries, arable land outside fallow or greenhouse areas - which "do not use plant protection products containing the active substance of glyphosate during the years 2021 and 2022".
Presented at the end of 2020 in the form of an amendment to the finance bill for 2021, this measure grants a tax credit of a lump sum of 2,500 euros for farms that renounce using glyphosate in 2021. It applies not only to the field crops sector, but also to arboriculture and viticulture, as well as to livestock farms present in a significant way in at least one of these plant productions, according to the Ministry of Agriculture.
President Macron's promises
The European Commission gave the green light to France in May for the implementation of this tax credit.
President Emmanuel Macron had committed in November 2017 in a tweet for a ban on glyphosate "at the latest in three years".
He admitted in December 2020 not having succeeded in keeping his promise, pleading a "collective" failure.
Since then, France has set itself the objective of eliminating most of the uses of this weedkiller classified as "probable carcinogen" by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) in 2021, before a total ban in 2023.
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