France - Implementation

Implementation processes in France

France has some difficulty adapting its standards-making processes and legalistic traditions to the exercise of transposition to which complex legal constraints are attached. The situation in France remains largely perfectible, given that it has at the same time an important, powerful and structured administration and a strong legal tradition in the drafting of the standard and its codification, provided that, However, that there is a strong political determination. (...) »

The Council of State then proposes solutions based on three main ideas: anticipating, adapting, simplifying. Anticipate, through participation as early as possible in the process of designing and developing the Community standard. Adapt, through a better association of the Parliament and the major institutions of the Republic, as well as by a modulation of the method of adoption of the transposition standard. Simplify the techniques of drafting the national transposition standard and simplify the many prior consultative regimes of the economic and social partners, while restoring their meaning.