“Stop, it’s too much!
“, he proclaims.
Head of the Communist Party list for the European elections on June 9, Léon Deffontaines is making a rant that he shares in an open letter to farmers.
The young candidate denounces one of the aspects of the new directive on driving licenses which will be submitted to the vote of the European Parliament next week: the obligation to take up to eight licenses to drive agricultural or forestry vehicles.
Currently, farmers aged at least 16 years attached to a farm and who drive tractors are exempt.
Called “The European Union does not have the license to ruin our lives!”
» his missive, which we were able to consult, will be distributed in the coming hours in the markets and on farms in the rural departments.
In it, Léon Deffontaines denounces a "new constraint" and a "real provocation", a few weeks after the start of the angry movement of farmers in France and in Europe and a few hours before the opening of the Salon de l'Art on Saturday. agriculture in Paris.
The threat of “an uberization of agricultural employees”
“These new permits will have a significant cost for farmers, even though the overwhelming majority of them have been driving these machines for many years.
Such regulations risk completely destabilizing the agricultural world,” worries the head of the PCF list.
For him, these new permits open the way to “an Uberization of agricultural employees and an increase in posted work” by allowing their future holders to work on any type of farm and in all countries of the European Union. .
During the examination of the text in session, on February 27 and 28, Emmanuel Maurel, outgoing MEP and number three on the communist list, will table amendments to request the deletion of the creation of these eight new "tractor permits" and the placement of agricultural and forestry vehicles outside the scope of the Driving License Directive.
“Rather than this abstruse legislation which meets neither environmental imperatives nor social requirements, let us offer farmers an ambitious pact for the future, respectful of our sovereignty and guaranteeing the possibility of living with dignity from the fruits of their labor!
» writes Deffontaines.
The draft European directive on driving licenses aims to strengthen road safety on the continent.
If it is voted on, it would not be applicable before 2026 or 2027. The text, of around thirty articles, includes another measure which is causing debate: the end of the lifetime driving license for individuals.
Green MEP Karima Delli therefore proposes setting up a medical examination every fifteen years in order to renew the driving license.
A measure opposed by the 40 million motorists association, which has launched a petition to this effect.