The Goal of Simplification in the Recent Reforms of Local Government: The Case of the General Responsibility Clause
Gerardin, Noé
The Goal of Simplification in the Recent Reforms of Local Government: The Case of the General Responsibility Clause - 2016.
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Everyone agrees on the complexity of the distribution of competences between French local authorities. However, there is no consensus on how to simplify it. One of the long-considered solutions lies in the suppression of the “general competence clause” for regions and departments: these authorities would therefore only intervene within the competences explicitly defined by the law and granted to them. A law passed on August 7th, 2015 has finally suppressed this general competence clause: the question remains on the limits and the legal and political risks of this suppression that was originally meant to be simplifying.
The Goal of Simplification in the Recent Reforms of Local Government: The Case of the General Responsibility Clause - 2016.
92
Everyone agrees on the complexity of the distribution of competences between French local authorities. However, there is no consensus on how to simplify it. One of the long-considered solutions lies in the suppression of the “general competence clause” for regions and departments: these authorities would therefore only intervene within the competences explicitly defined by the law and granted to them. A law passed on August 7th, 2015 has finally suppressed this general competence clause: the question remains on the limits and the legal and political risks of this suppression that was originally meant to be simplifying.
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