VIt is up to the years that Christophe Eoche-Duval has, in his free time, the hunt not at the pheasant or the partridge, but … to the standards. These various and varied laws and regulations which constitute, such as cheeses, one of the specialties of France.
Until now, this senior official, author of a remarkable essay on the subject, Normative inflation. When France dies too many laws! (Plon, 2024), feverishly watched the exit, on the Catimini, of the official statement of the General Secretariat of the Government (SGG), an organization attached to Matignon. “Now, not only is its date of publication random but, in addition, it is an incomplete and dated document, since it does not identify the last texts,” he recalls.
According to this cantor of legislative clearing, everything is done so that the French do not notice the evidence: standards, such as weeds, accumulate in an uncontrolled way and the state would like to look elsewhere. Think! It would be so tedious for his agents to have to ratibish this thick taiga …Read too Simplification: 50 years of headache for governmentsBut now, no need to wait and consult Légifrance to read the latest data. Because Christophe Eoche-Duval, helped by the associate taxpayer association, has just launched this May 6, vigienormes.fr*. A website that measures normative inflation no more than one year on the other but months per month. “With a little more development, we could even update it daily,” anticipates the administrative magistrate.
335 385 new legislative words from Bayrou
For the time being, this platform complies 19 codes out of the 77 in France, six more than the official accounting held by the SGG. “Ultimately, we hope to be able to put all the codes there, as well as the whole of the uncommged law, which represents 53 % of the normative corpus”, continues the founder of the site.
What do we see on vigienormes.fr? That, since the year 2000, the main codes have swelled, in number of words, such as highs. + 476.75 % for trade, + 332.9 % for public health, + 287.73 % for consumption, + 82.99 % for taxes and + 144.29 % for tax procedures. “Since the appointment of François Bayrou, 335,385 new legislative words have appeared in the codes, which is enormous, continues Christophe Eoche-Duval. However, he had denounced normative inflation in the past, many times. »»Read too Normative inflation: “this political break is beneficial”
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A bill “to simplify economic life”, which “intends to lighten the administrative burden that weighs on businesses, in particular on the smallest”, dixit the government, is under study, at this very moment, in the National Assembly. It contains 26 measures, including the deletion of certain declarative approaches and a handful of CERFA forms.
It also includes a facilitation of access to public procurement for SMEs and VSEs, as well as simplification of salary slips or accelerated routes for certain industrial projects. However, parliamentarians are far from agreeing to sign it, and the very full legislative calendar could hinder its adoption. The real normative simplification will wait.
