2022-12-07 23:00:00
The Senate announced on Wednesday, December 7, 2022 the imminent tabling of a senatorial initiative bill relating to the objectives of “zero net artificialisation” (ZAN).
On the occasion of the hearing with Minister Christophe Béchu and Minister Dominique Faure, and at the conclusion of its work, the joint control mission relating to the application of the ZAN announced that it will file a legislative proposal next week to facilitate the deployment of ZAN objectives within the territories.
The President of the mission, Valérie Létard, told the ministers during the hearing held on December 6: “if the objective of land sobriety is necessary and legitimate, the assessment of our work, unanimously drawn, is that ZAN’s legal framework can now be largely improved. Yet, despite ministerial working groups, consultations and government declarations, to date, nothing has changed concretely, either in the law or in the decrees“.
The questions of the senators to the ministers focused in particular on the way in which the structuring projects of reindustrialization, infrastructures or decarbonization, could be preserved under the “ZAN” regime. THE economic land was discussed at length, while the minister confirmed the fears of senators about the expected rise in land prices and its increased scarcity.
The rapporteur Jean-Baptiste Blanc also recalled that “ZAN today only creates obligations for local authorities. However, the State, like the communities, is a developer and builder: it must be faced with its responsibilities“calling for better sharing of the effort to reduce land take between the State and local authorities.
Asked about the “rural guarantee” announced in a sibylline way during a hearing in the Senate last month, the minister did not provide any additional details on the solutions envisaged by the Government. The senators of the mission estimated, them, “essential to ensure minimum possibilities for the municipalitiesparticularly rural ones, in order to carry out the projects essential to their development”, announcing proposals in this direction.
Finally, the senators of the joint mission highlighted the contradictions of the imposed timetable to local authorities to set out the objectives of the ZAN, leaving only a few months to the Regions to set up a qualitative dialogue between local authorities and to devise an equitable distribution between territories. This observation also calls, according to the senators of the mission, to the establishment of a sustainable and reinforced governance of the policy of the fight against artificialization.
Reacting to the announcement of the imminent tabling of a bill by the joint control mission, Minister Béchu declared that “it may be on the basis of the legislative vehicle proposed by the Senate that the discussion around the evolution of the ZAN framework will be established”.
The joint control mission will present to the press, on December 14 at 2 p.m., the bill resulting from its work relating to the implementation of “ZAN” in the territories.
Mrs Valerie Letard (Centrist Union – Nord) is president of the joint control mission.
Mr. Jean-Baptiste Blanc (Les Républicains – Vaucluse) is rapporteur for the joint monitoring mission.
Philippe Péjo – Senate Communication Department
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