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#2025-978Decree No. 2025-978 Amending Cabinet Composition Regulations

🇫🇷France··Other·Medium Impact·View source ↗

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This law amends the regulations regarding the composition of ministerial cabinets in France. It stipulates that a full minister's cabinet cannot have more than fourteen members, while a delegated minister's cabinet can have a maximum of eight members. However, there is an exception that allows the cabinet of the minister delegated to the Prime Minister for relations with Parliament to have up to fourteen members.

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Key Changes

  • Full ministers' cabinets limited to 14 members
  • Delegated ministers' cabinets limited to 8 members
  • Exception for the minister delegated to the Prime Minister for parliamentary relations to have up to 14 members

Obligations

What this law requires

high

Ensure that a full minister's (ministre de plein exercice) cabinet does not exceed fourteen members

Full ministers and Prime Minister's office responsible for cabinet composition
operational
high

Ensure that a delegated minister's (ministre délégué) cabinet does not exceed eight members

Delegated ministers and Prime Minister's office responsible for cabinet composition
operational
medium

Allow the delegated minister to the Prime Minister responsible for relations with Parliament to have up to fourteen members in their cabinet as an exception to the eight-member limit

Prime Minister's office and the delegated minister for Parliamentary relations
operational
high

Publish this decree in the Journal officiel de la République française

French government (Journal officiel publisher)
disclosure

Affected Parties

Ministers of the French governmentDelegated ministers

Tags

cabinet regulation,government structure,France