Today the Environment and Natural Resources Commission of the Chamber of Deputies of Entre Ríos will meet again, chaired by the provincial deputy, Juan Manuel Rossi, in order to continue discussing “Project Law No. 26,117 on “Good practices in the use of phytosanitary and domestic pesticides in the Province of Entre Ríos”.
It should be noted that in the previous meeting on Thursday, April 11, in which speakers who belonged to environmental organizations spoke, they raised strong criticism of the project during the debate, they agreed that the initiative should be modified, as well as the level of contamination of the agrochemicals and that “the agribusiness model does not work.”
The project
The base draft is the same one that the Executive presented in November 2022, when the governor was Gustavo Bordet, legislative sources confirmed. This is a regulatory body that was promoted by the former Minister of Production and current deputy, Juan José Bahillo (MpER-PJ).
In this outline, the minimum distances for spraying agrochemicals where there are people is 100 meters for those carried out on land and 200 meters for aerial ones, Era Verde published.
In the case of rural educational institutions, a special regime is established, where “a distance of 150 meters measured from the perimeter of the school is considered to delimit the exclusion zone, with for aerial applications the distance being 500 meters, measured from the perimeter. of the educational establishment.
From this distance, a buffer zone is considered that goes from the limit of the exclusion zone (150 meters of the perimeter) to 500 meters for ground equipment; from the limit of the exclusion zone for aerial equipment (500 meters from the school perimeter) to 3000 meters.”
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