Category:France

The implementation process in France
The implementation process in France engages a lot of different actors like the President, the Government, the parliament, the citizens or the Constitutional Council.

The main National Actors are then the President, the Government, the Parliament and the Constitutional Council.

But there are some regional actors. In fact, the parliament is composed of ministers and deputy elected by territorial collectivities (each responsible of a department or a region). Furthermore, citizens play a role in the election of the parliament.

How is law implemented then ?

Well, the most common way is the following one:

The president and the government receive a directive (in the case of the MOOC, a directive from the EU) or have a project for a new law. They formulate and transmit the project/directive to the Parliament. Within the Parliament, the Sénat and the National Assembly will decide by voting wether to implement the directive/law or not, and how to formulate it. If there no conflict about the implementation, the project becomes a law that is judged by the Constitutional council. If the constitutional council validate the law, it is adopted.

If there is a conflict about this law, the parliament can ask for the citizens to vote a referendum.

But the project for a new law can also come from the parliament itself. Then, it is not called a project but a proposition. However, the parliament does not receive directives from the EU. Then, as we are talking about the implementation of the EU directives, the first actor is still the Government.

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