What the “simplification” invoice incorporates, the target of which is to “give more freedom of action” to communities | EUROtoday

The Lecornu authorities continues its hunt for requirements with the purpose, it guarantees, of simplifying the lives of native elected officers. After the publication on February 21 of its first “mega-decree” of simplification and whereas awaiting the “decentralization” invoice, the manager is placing the ending touches to the legislative facet of its strategy to pruning the principles weighing on the native sphere. Viewed by The Worldhis invoice “bringing simplification of the standards applicable to communities” was detailed on Friday February 27 to associations of native elected officers. Its presentation to the Council of Ministers will happen after the municipal elections, in April, earlier than a subsequent examination within the Senate.

No“operation punch”however, as indicated by the Minister of Territorial Planning and Decentralization, Françoise Gatel, on February 18, throughout a listening to within the Senate. Made up of 40 articles, the invoice is meant “modest and concrete”. “It’s about giving more freedom of action to take into account the realities of each territory, says the government in the explanatory statement of its text. Communities must be able to devote themselves to their territorial project without wasting time due to obsolete and useless rules. » And, sometimes, “surreal”, thundered the Prime Minister, Sébastien Lecornu, on November 20, 2025, on the shut of the congress of mayors. “I hope that the start of the next municipal term can take place with the greatest simplicity”, he then introduced.

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