Question 19827 — European Union

Summary

Mr. Fabien Gouttefarde questions the Secretary of State, attached to the Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs, responsible for European affairs, on the assertion that 80% of French legislation is of European origin. For several decades this unfounded figure has been used by various political leaders to accentuate the idea of ​​dependence on the European Union. While even today, most Studies carried out by research groups assess European activity as representing only 10 to 20% of the activity of the French Parliament, it is difficult to find official figures on this subject. It is generally considered that the difficulties for such an assessment would be due to the diversity of possible European legal acts as well as the sectors concerned. In its indicator for monitoring the normative activity of 2019, the General Secretariat of the Government succeeded in producing statistics on the number of published texts which participate in the transposition of directives from 2002 to 2018, thus counting 13 laws, 2 ordinances, 22 decrees and 38 orders. Due to its restriction to simple directives, this evaluation does not take into account the diversity of acts that may emanate from European bodies likely to be transposed into domestic law. In 2018, the National Assembly adopted 45 laws (excluding the application of article 53 of the Constitution). Of this number, he would like to know how many texts can be considered to have their origin in a European act.

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