8th January 2009
While the Grenelle 1 law adopted last October by the National Assembly will be debated on January 27 in the Senate, the Grenelle 2 said national commitment law for the environment was adopted in the Council of Ministers yesterday Wednesday.
The text of Grenelle 2 includes 104 articles and is organized into six thematic chapters: Buildings and town planning, Transport, Energy and climate, Biodiversity, Risk, health, waste and Governance.
"This text sets up a system unique in Europe" affirmed Jean-Louis Borloo while Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet specified that it "removed the blocking points which still existed in French law and taxation". In any case, it appears to be in general compliance with the commitments made, even if FNE qualifies it as an "interesting but incomplete toolbox".
Without going into the details of a particularly dense text, we can cite a measure by theme. Thus, the obligation to work to improve the energy performance of tertiary buildings, the modulation of tolls according to CO2 emissions for heavy goods vehicles, the production of a greenhouse gas emissions report for companies with more than 500 employees and local authorities with more than 50 inhabitants, the generalization of a detailed inventory of the drinking water and sanitation heritage, monitoring of indoor air quality in public places and finally the extension the application of the NRE law to all companies with more than 000 employees with the obligation to publish a social and environmental report.
This text will enter into discussion in March at should be definitively adopted before the summer according to Jean-Louis Borloo. The text of the bill
source: http://www.environnement-magazine.fr/pr ... 89_em_.asp
Full text of the bill: http://www.developpement-durable.gouv.f ... 21193f.pdf
