The polluter-pays principle alone cannot solve everything.

Summary Reducing pollution and applying the polluter-pays principle more strictly: these are all injunctions from the European Union to France that directly question our water financing system. The polluter-pays principle cannot solve everything. Even if it can be considered to have played a positive role in reducing industrial pollution, the introduction of a tax has had little effect on pollution by plant protection products. The Comité pour la fiscalité écologique proposes to evaluate the effects of new tools such as certificates of savings on plant protection products, or even certificates of savings on agricultural inputs, as well as the implementation of an insurance system to support changes in practices.