The National Assembly acts the abolition of round twenty consultative our bodies inside the framework of the examination of the so -called “simplification” regulation | EUROtoday

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The Minister of Public Action, the Public Service and the Simplification, Laurent Marcangeli, at the Elysée, on March 12, 2025.

To take heed to the Minister of Simplification, Laurent Marcangeli, the present parliamentary firm, chargeable for judging the deserves of committees, observatories, senior councils and different nationwide commissions, responds to a relentless logic: “When they do not meet, when it harms public action, when it is redundant and it doubles, we delete!” »»

At the danger of lengthening the debates on the “simplification” invoice, which can prolong at the very least till the top of April, the deputies nonetheless took the time, Thursday, April 10, of the confrontation to determine on the destiny of a number of advisory our bodies

Assessment of the session: round twenty of them, already abolished in committee, on varied themes – surroundings, innovation, commerce, well being … – have seen their disappearance confirmed in public session, with the systematic voices of the National Rally (RN), Republicans (LR) and, much less ceaselessly, of the central block. But some might have been restored, not with out issue, reminiscent of regional financial, social and environmental councils (CERSER).

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These advisory our bodies, made up of corporations, unions, associations and certified personalities, had been deemed superfluous by the president of the fee chargeable for analyzing the textual content, Ian Boucard (LR, Territoire de Belfort). He maintained his place on Thursday, believing that the regional councils “Work” And “Already bring together actors from civil society” And “Associative actors”.

“Liquidation” or “reasonable pruner”

Matthias Renault (RN, Somme), he judged that the CERSERs had been solely “Provide reports that are not read by almost anyone”and referred to as to abolish the National Economic, Social and Environmental Council (EESC). Conversely, on the left, the socialist Gérard Leseul (Seine-Maritime) assured that the Ceser “Can by their plural composition, enlighten our regional policies”receiving the minister’s assist on this level.

During agitated debates, elected officers of the brand new Popular Front have continued to castigate a generally a “Chainsaw massacre”generally a “Vast liquidation operation”. “A completely reasonable pruningman”retorted Guillaume Kasbarian (Renaissance, Eure-et-Loir).

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In a type of return match of the Commission, the deputies additionally restored the Higher Digital Commission and the Posts, the Superior Council of Forest and Wood, the High Council of Family, Childhood and Age, the National Mountain Council, the Observatory of Food Quality or the High Council for the way forward for medical insurance.

Deletion pushed to 2026 for AFIT

The authorities, the left and a part of the central block, nonetheless, did not reintroduce some, such because the Transport Infrastructure Financing Agency (AFIT), the abolition of which has been postponed to 2026. By ending this construction which manages a number of billion euros “Without having the slightest idea of ​​what we replace it” we “Decreed all simplification procedures”was indignant Marc Fesneau, president of the Modem group within the National Assembly.

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This alliance of circumstance skilled the identical failure on the National Observatory for City Policy (ONPV), the abolition of which was maintained after shiny debates.

Also went to the hatch: the Higher Council for Construction and Energy Effectiveness, the Observatory of Natural, Agricultural and Forest Spaces or the National Committee for Expertise for Educational Innovation.

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Conversely, elected environmentalists and rebellious France have mobilized concurrently the RN to substantiate an abolition towards the opinion of the federal government: that of the High Council for the Evaluation of Research and Higher Education, chargeable for assessing the constructions of upper schooling and analysis.

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