Many people say that the clocks tick differently in the countryside. The background noise is often different too. Roosters crowing, cows mooing: what sounds like music to some people’s ears or at least doesn’t bother them, others find annoying. A new law in France now makes it more difficult to go to court.
Yes, you heard right! It will become more difficult for city residents who are bothered by crowing roosters or odors from manure piles in the countryside to go to court in the future.
The parliament in Paris passed a law late Monday evening that protects farmers and other companies in their activities as long as their activities are legal.
Tractors and animals are part of the country idyll
Those who move to the countryside cannot sue their neighbors because mooing cows, rattling tractors or nightly work in the ground-floor bakery disrupt their idea of the rural idyll.
All activities that farmers were already legally carrying out when new neighbors moved in are now protected.
To curb neighborhood disputes over sounds and smells in the countryside, France had already passed a law in 2021 aimed at defining and protecting the so-called sensory heritage of France’s landscapes.
The Environmental Code has since established that the sounds and smells that characterize natural areas are part of the country’s shared heritage.
Source: Krone
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