France, Aug. 12 -- French President Emmanuel Macron has signed into law a modified agriculture bill that bars a banned pesticide from being reintroduced. The move comes after the Constitutional Council - the country's highest court - struck down the clause last week, ruling it violated France's environmental charter.

Known as the Duplomb law, the legislation has been at the centre of a heated debate and fuelled a student-led petition that gathered more than two million signatures.

The law was published in the government's official journal on Tuesday after the Constitutional Council, the country's highest court,struck downthe contested provision about the reintroduction of acetamiprid.

Judges said the family of pesticides known as neoni...