#97-1194Decree on the Decentralization of Administrative Decisions
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This decree clarifies who is responsible for making specific administrative decisions in France. It permits decisions to be made by the Minister of Economy, Finance, and Industry alone, jointly with other ministers, or through decrees, depending on the existing legal framework. It maintains the existing authority of local officials like prefects and mayors for certain decisions.
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Key Changes
- Defines who can make specific administrative decisions
- Allows ministerial or joint ministerial decision-making
- Preserves local authority for certain decisions
Obligations
What this law requires
Individual administrative decisions listed in the Annex must be made either by the Minister of Economy, Finance, and Industry (alone or jointly with other ministers) or by decree, depending on applicable legal provisions
Maintain and continue applying existing provisions that attribute competence for administrative decisions to prefects, heads of nationally-competent services, zone prefects, regional prefects, police prefects, maritime prefects, other decentralized state authorities, administrative or judicial magistrates, and mayors
Preserve and maintain in force existing rules for determining thresholds when administrative competence is attributed by reference to a specific threshold
Publish this decree in the Journal officiel de la République française
Implement and execute the decree provisions, with the Prime Minister, Minister of Economy/Finance/Industry, and Minister of Civil Service/State Reform/Decentralization each responsible for execution within their respective competencies