Original scientific paper
Contractual Processes between Public Law Partners: Contracts between the State and Local Authorities
Marc Gjidara
; retired from the Université Panthéon-Assas – Paris II, France
Abstract
The paper is devoted to exploring the contractual relations that exist between public law partners in France especially after the decentralization processes that started in the beginning of the 1980s. It is especially interested in contractual relationship between the central state and local authorities. After introduction, the paper reviews the evolution of contractual relationship between the state and local authorities presenting political justifications, legal foundations as well as administrative areas in which these relations take place in France. These areas include city policy, tourism, cultural development, environment, education, etc. It also deals with the recent extensions and limitations to contracting such as the sovereign priorities of the state, security sector and police activities. It is argued that the contract has enabled the operation of administrative systems that would otherwise be blocked. Wherever administrative coordination is insufficient, and when in the absence of effective deconcentration the relationships between services are poorly organized, contracts are useful.
Keywords
public contracts; central state; local self-government; France
Hrčak ID:
130488
URI
Publication date:
3.12.2012.
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