#2026-358France sets membership rules for the national hedgerow strategy committee
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This decree creates the formal governance structure for France’s national strategy on sustainable hedgerow management and restoration. It names the consultation and monitoring body as the “national strategic hedgerow committee” and says it will help develop the national action plan and be kept informed of its implementation. The committee brings together agriculture and environment ministries, state agencies, farmers’ unions, local authorities, environmental and consumer groups, agroforestry and rural-sector organizations, and companies managing rail, motorway, electricity or telecom networks. For businesses and compliance teams, the practical point is that future hedgerow policy will be shaped through this committee, with affected sectors formally represented.
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Key Changes
- Creates the national strategic hedgerow committee as the consultation and monitoring body for France’s hedgerow strategy.
- Defines seven groups of committee members, including ministries, public bodies, farming unions, local authorities, NGOs, rural-sector organizations and network operators.
- Assigns the committee secretariat to agriculture and environment ministry departments and requires represented bodies to name their delegates.
Obligations
What this law requires
The ministers responsible for environment and agriculture must adopt the national strategy for sustainable hedgerow management and restoration.
The national strategic hedgerow committee must be associated with the preparation of the national action plan and must be kept informed of its implementation.
The ministers responsible for agriculture and environment must jointly designate the legal persons represented in the local authority, approved association, agricultural/rural sector, and network-operator colleges, ensuring their representativeness.
Legal persons in the agricultural unions, local authority associations, approved national associations, agricultural/rural sector organizations, and rail, motorway, electricity or telecommunications network operator colleges must notify the committee secretariat of their representatives.
The committee secretariat must keep the list of representatives notified by the legal persons in the relevant colleges up to date.