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Stuttgart (dpa) - In the ongoing dispute over the new insect protection law, the Baden-Württemberg Agriculture Minister Peter Hauk (CDU) wants to swear the federal states to a common stance against the planned federal project.
He will therefore present a proposal for a resolution at the special meeting of the agriculture ministers on Friday (11.00 a.m.) and request that the video link be expanded to include an item on the agenda.
The aim must be to prevent the Insect Protection Act and the related Plant Protection Application Ordinance.
Instead of bans and requirements, incentives should be created so that farmers voluntarily reduce the use of pesticides.
The farmers had previously increased the pressure on Federal Environment Minister Svenja Schulze (SPD).
In a letter to Chancellor Angela Merkel, the German Farmers' Association calls for the legislative package to be stopped, the draft of which is to be approved by the federal cabinet on Wednesday (February 10).
It stresses the relationship between nature conservation and agriculture and must be clearly dealt with.
Hauk and the two Agriculture Ministers Michaela Kaniber (CSU) from Bavaria and Barbara Otte-Kinast (CDU) from Lower Saxony also formulated similar concerns in a joint letter to the Chancellery.
The black and red federal government wrote the protection of bees in the coalition agreement after studies on insect death alarmed the Germans.
As pollinators of plants and prey for birds and other animals, insects have extremely important functions in the ecosystem.
If they die, the entire equilibrium of nature falls apart.
Last autumn, the government therefore agreed on an "action program" that Schulze presented to the cabinet for a vote.
It is intended to set the legal framework for insect protection and the reduction of the use of glyphosate.
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With her draft, Schulze is implementing what the cabinet had already decided with the action program.
In particular, it is about reducing light pollution, expanding protection zones and reducing the use of pesticides.
Among other things, there are plans for a mandatory distance between larger bodies of water and areas where weed poison is used.
Certain meadows, orchards, stone walls and unplastered walls should be specially protected as biotopes.
In nature reserves and national parks, certain insecticides and wood preservatives should be taboo.
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Letter from farmers' association to the Chancellery
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