"Zero net artificialization": the Senate puts pressure on the government

The mayors of the 35.000 municipalities in France are awaiting the answers provided by this text to their questions and to the uncertainties associated with a law whose implementing decrees are now referred to the Council of State. Faced with the risks that a standardized and centralized application of "ZAN" would create, the Senate's proposals, the fruit of long months of meticulous work of expertise and listening to the various actors of "ZAN", adapt its application to reality. ground without calling into question any of the programmatic objectives set by the Climate Resilience law.

Territorialisation, pooling of projects of common interest, separate calculation of major national and European projects, right of pre-emption and stay of proceedings, consideration of renaturation, are all tools that will enable local authorities to implement the policy of land sobriety provided for by the "ZAN" in a sustainable and secure manner.

The Government continues to procrastinate as these deadlines are now dangerously approaching and concern and anger are rising among local elected officials.

For Valérie Létard, president of the special commission in charge of this text, taking into account the deadlines for consultation and approval of the planning documents provided for by law, if the senatorial bill is not examined in the National Assembly before the summer, "for the regions, the game will be over, and it will be too late".

At a time when the Government is highlighting its desire to consult and urges responsibility, the Senate can only urge it to support the creation of a consensus on such a structuring subject for the environmental and economic resilience of our country. for decades to come.

For Jean Baptiste Blanc, rapporteur: “It is a fundamental land reform for the country, for ecological transition, but also for reindustrialisation. Much effort is required from local communities. The government can't push through on this. »

The High Assembly therefore expects the Government to keep its promise to continue the discussion on the "ZAN" on the basis of the text which was adopted by the Senate, within the framework of the parliamentary debates.