#2015-510Decree No. 2015-510 Establishing the Charter of Deconcentration
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This decree establishes the principles for decentralizing the powers of the French State's civil administrations to regional and departmental levels, aiming to improve efficiency, modernization, and fairness. It defines which responsibilities remain with national administrations and which are delegated to local levels, ensuring coordination between different services.
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Key Changes
- Establishes decentralization of state administration to regional and departmental levels
- Outlines which tasks are retained by national level and which are delegated locally
- Emphasizes coordination across different administrative services
Obligations
What this law requires
Ministers must elaborate multi-year action priorities for deconcentrated services formalized in national guidance directives
All regulatory text projects having consequences on deconcentrated services' missions and organization must be accompanied by a prior impact assessment form before inter-ministerial discussions
Central administrations must conduct impact studies for legislative proposals that affect deconcentrated services' missions or organization, verifying costs, benefits, adequacy of objectives against constraints and resources of deconcentrated services
The Prime Minister must ensure overall coherence of the action priorities and directives established by all ministers for deconcentrated services
Ministry secretaries general must verify that directives and instructions to deconcentrated administrations are coherent with national guidance directives and must manage their transmission