Paris (AFP)
The government will make "very soon" proposals to "better protect" inhabitants of pesticide application, said Wednesday the Minister of Ecology Elisabeth Borne, while a decree on the subject of a mayor of Ille-et -Vilaine will be examined Thursday by the administrative justice.
"We have work underway, which will be the subject of a consultation very soon, on how to better protect residents on pesticide application," the minister told RTL.
The mayor of Langouët (Ille-et-Vilaine), a municipality of 602 inhabitants, appears Thursday before the administrative court of Rennes for taking a decree in May prohibiting the use of pesticides near homes to "protect the health" of its administered.
Attacked by the prefecture, the decree of May 18 prohibits the use of plant protection products "at a distance less than 150 meters from any cadastral parcel including a building for residential or professional use".
"The mayor is right on one point: we must better protect the inhabitants when we have pesticide spraying" but "everyone can not define his rules like that, in his corner," commented Elisabeth Borne.
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