Emmanuel Macron opens the hunt for standards
Since the start of the 2017 academic year, the executive has been compelling ministries to offset any adoption of a new standard "by removing or simplifying at least two existing standards".
It is an antiphon as old as politics. France produces too many standards, regulations, orders, circulars, accusations, right and left, for decades. "There are as many laws in France as in the world," wrote Montaigne already in the sixteenth century. "We must stop pestering the French! In 1966, Georges Pompidou grumbled at Jacques Chirac, then a young missionary at Matignon, who presented him with a pile of decrees to sign.
Emmanuel Macron is no exception to the rule. During the campaign for the presidential election, the candidate of En marche! said he wanted to "let people breathe" and had also committed to put an end to normative inflation, source to hear of ankylosis for businesses and harassment for individuals. "The society I want will be freed from the shackles and blockages," the former senior official promised in his program.
According to specialists, France suffers from an acute "normality". A report written in 2013 by former budget minister Alain Lambert and Le Mans mayor Jean-Claude Boulard, who recently passed away, estimated at 400,000 the stacking of standards established over the years. In total, 64 codes (town planning, insurance, public procurement, etc.) govern our daily lives and the new standards introduced each year by law would result in an average annual additional cost of around 500 million euros.
"Circular Policy"
Since his election, the Head of State never misses an opportunity to denounce this French way. "I want us to get out of this fascination with the circular's policy to have a central policy strategy. When the strategies are clear, they do not need to look at every turn in each department, "said the head of state at the conference ...
