A Senate amendment to the legislation on alcohol advertising is discussed this week at the National Assembly in committee under the second reading of Bill Macron.
“The debate was held in the framework of the law of modernization of our health system, between those who wanted harden and those wishing to relax the Evin law, reports . the Health Minister, Marisol Touraine With Stéphane Le Foll, we made the choice to balance: nothing more, nothing less “
“It is this choice that is today called into question” Marisol Touraine continues in reference to the amendment of Senator Gérard César (Republicans, former UMP) adopted in early May by the Upper House. But for Ms. Touraine “The Macron law can not be used to unravel public health policies” . “I call on everyone to take responsibility, that is to say not to change the law” she said.
Status quo
The spokesman of the government and Minister of Agriculture Stéphane Le Foll, while saying defender of viticulture, has also decided Monday morning to the status quo on the Evin law, passed in 1991.
“Lobby hygienist “
The PS deputy of the Gironde Gilles Savary himself has denounced the ” overreaction of Chief lobby “ the amendment passed the Senate.
This amendment “does not call into question, neither the spirit nor the letter of the Evin law, but aims to avoid that in our countries, including the ancestral wine tradition was strongly impressed in the culture, and now in our economy and in the rare success of our foreign trade, it becomes risky for a journalist, a filmmaker or novelist to raise our wine products or refer to it “ he justified.
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