On March 19, the Council of State canceled the 80 charters of good neighborliness on the spreading of pesticides established in France, on the grounds that they did not comply with the Environmental Charter.
In Gironde, this decision had aroused the hope of residents.
“With us, it was written with the help of stakeholders in the agricultural and wine world, without sufficiently consulting the inhabitants, whereas the Food Directorate (DRAAF) had counted, in 2014, 128 municipalities with a school, nursery or nursing home. , located less than 50 m from the vines ”, deplores Sylvie Nony, vice-president of the Alerte Pesticide Haute-Gironde association.
Two condemned wine châteaux
His association was born in 2014 after students from Villeneuve-sur-Blaye school and their teacher suffered from dizziness and headaches following the spraying of pesticides on the plot next to the playground.
Two wine châteaux have been condemned.
"We are in a wine-growing environment where there is a lot of omerta but more and more parents are becoming aware of the dangerousness of these products", explains Ludovic Coutant of the Parempuyre Parents' Collective, who opposed to the construction of a college in front of the vineyards.
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The canceled Gironde charter provided for a safety distance of “20 m incompressible for the most dangerous pesticides” and exemptions to 3 and 5 m for other products.
“We were asking for 200 m,” deplores Sylvie Nony.
Tuesday, the parents of FCPE 33 students, the FSU 33 union, doctors and environmental activists called for a referendum, "so that the next charter is written in a democratic way".
"No question," replies the Gironde prefecture.
A public consultation has already taken place and it has not been established that all the charters of France are unconstitutional.
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