"I prefer clear and collected texts. I recently launched an appeal for sobriety (energetic, editor's note). I believe that it must also apply to our texts", declared the Prime Minister before the Council of State, which organized for the first time a "back-to-school session", a long-established practice at the Court of Cassation.
"It is an imperative of efficiency. It is an imperative of clarity. It is also, today, a democratic imperative, because the new composition of the National Assembly further reinforces the need to focus parliamentary debates on the heart of the legislative matter", added the head of government and the presidential majority.
"The culture of the norm is rarely the work of lawyers. I would say that it is a French, even political evil, which consists in believing that each news item or difficulty calls for a text to respond to it; or that one measures a balance sheet to the quantity of texts adopted. That is not my vision of things, "said Ms. Borne.
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The Prime Minister invited the administrative judges to "identify the cases in which the use of a text is not necessary, and to write our laws, ordinances and decrees more simply, more soberly".
Elisabeth Borne closed the back-to-school session of the Council of State, the highest administrative court.
The vice-president of the Council of State Didier-Roland Tabuteau also judged that "normative inflation is not the solution".
"Evaluating public services, improving their operation, simplifying procedures are imperative needs".
Quoting his predecessor Bruno Lasserre, he regretted that "we equate public policies too much with changing the norm. What matters is to transform the reality on the ground", he said.
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