The main measures of the Grenelle II on lesechos

Aasian time where the écoloscepticisme won the points, the consideration of the Bill for national commitment to the environment, said "Grenelle II", from this afternoon to the Assembly, is sports. Two and a half years after the launch of this discussion to five process between Government, employers, trade unions, local authorities and NGOs, this text is a sort of "Toolbox" to achieve the objectives of the Grenelle I Act, passed almost unanimously in 2008. A set of rather technical measures, therefore, but some are several groups of pressure and parliamentary opposition. By as much as the Government's decision to abandon the carbon tax and the words of Nicolas Sarkozy at the Salon of agriculture ("the environment, it starts to do well") helped to demystify the commitments made in the negotiation of the round table. Concerned, environmental associations manifest, indeed, today, before the Palais Bourbon.

Housing. Measures to improve the energy performance of buildings are reflected, while advances. But the associations for the defence of the environment regret that no binding action is planned in the event of resale of housing. Now, for example, each developer must certify that the thermal regulation has taken into account in the construction; real estate announcements will be required to indicate the performance of housing; condominiums in addition of 50 lots will be required to conduct an energy audit and, in a period of eight years, the tertiary sector and buildings receiving the public will have to be renovated. But the text provides no sanction.

Transport. Transport, the national infrastructure scheme promised for months always been did not. But the Bill provides that the said device "green and blue frames" created to push local communities to be aware of the importance of biodiversity protection issues should be "taken into account" in the realization of the State infrastructure projects. Clearly, it is not possible to build a TGV line or one kilometre of motorway without cutting or, where appropriate, compensate for violations of the nature. Ticket transport must also indicate the amount of CO2 emitted when moving. And local communities or the State will have the opportunity to introduce a tax in the case of sale of land located within a radius of 800 metres of a new transit station or 1,500 metres of a railway station newly established. The proceeds of this tax will be paid to the organizing authority of the transport in question.

Consumption. The public will remember also that the draft law prohibits advertising for non-professional phytosanitary products, creates a new category of so-called "high environmental value" agricultural products, helps make compulsory the sale of a headset with mobile phones, not to mention the creation of a sector that supports the furniture end of life products, a tax credit for the neighbours of hazardous industrial sites or the removal of the monopoly of Parisian taxis in the international airports of Ile-de-France. But if they are concerned about the idea of eating vegetables containing pesticides, they will find no great thing for reassurance, if this is the fact that the sale of these products will be better framed. The removal of advertising outside built-up areas should be such as to better protect the landscape. But delaying the obligation to display the fact products CO2 content polemical.

In terms of environmental protection measures, a tax on waterproofed surfaces will fund pollution of rain water and Commons will be encouraged to reduce loss of water systems.

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