A69, pesticides, ZFE: environmental law, a threatened treasure

Is the door closed? Let's go through the window! At the end of February, the Toulouse administrative court annulled the prefectural decrees authorizing construction work on the A69 motorway linking Toulouse to Castres, on the grounds that this project "does not meet an imperative reason of major public interest" (RIIPM, to give it its nickname) and therefore does not justify endangering protected species along its route ? No problem, let's propose a text whose sole purpose is to validate these decrees, to allow the resumption of construction! This is what several senators in favor of the contested project did, by submitting a bill in mid-March relating to the imperative reason of major public interest for the motorway link . This text, enacting the forced passage, was adopted in the Senate, in a sparsely attended chamber, on Thursday, May 15. It will be examined in the National Assembly on June 2. Enough to make nature defenders, but also lawyers, howl.