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The Minister of State Reform, Decentralization and Public Service,
Vu la Act No. 83-634 of 13 July 1983 amended bringing the rights and obligations of civil servants, together with Act 84-16 of 11 January 1984, amended with statutory provisions relating to the public service of the State;
Vu le Decree No. 84-588 of 10 July 1984 amended on regional administrative institutes;
In view of the decision of 6 June 2008 setting out the nature, duration and program of the examinations for entry to regional institutes of administration,
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The 1st of Article 1 of the above-mentioned Order of June 6, 2008 relating to written examinations is replaced by the following provisions:
« 1° A composition on a general topic on the place of public authorities and their role in the major areas of public intervention (society, economy, employment, health, culture, territories, external relations...) to assess the openness to the world of candidates, their ability to analyse and question and their ability to project in their future professional environment (duration: four hours; coefficient 4). »
The 2nd of Article 1 of the same written examination order is replaced by the following:
« 2° A trial consisting of a series of six short answer questions, covering essential elements of public law, European issues, human resources management, social issues, public finances and the economy.
Each question may be accompanied by one or more documents related to the question asked that do not exceed a page in total.
For this test, the question of public law is noted on twenty points and the other questions on ten points (coefficient 4; duration: four hours). »
In the first paragraph of Article 1 of the same Order relating to oral examinations, the words "within ten minutes" are replaced by the words "within five minutes".
2° of Article 1 of the same oral examination order is replaced as follows:
"A foreign living language test consisting of an interview from a short text written in one of the following languages: German, English, Spanish and Italian (duration: fifteen minutes, preceded by a preparation of fifteen minutes; coefficient 1), the candidate's choice being expressed at the time of the examination.
For this test, scored on twenty, the score obtained in the foreign living language test is taken into account only within the limit of fifteen points. »
The second and third paragraphs of section 2 of the same order are replaced by the following paragraphs:
"The written eligibility test consists of:
― in writing, from an administrative record, a note to verify the candidate's writing, analysis and synthesis qualities and his ability to identify appropriate solutions;
― to answer one or two questions that may be related to the documentary record and to verify the candidate's general administrative knowledge and knowledge of human resources management in public administrations.
For this event, the documentary file cannot exceed twenty pages.
(Duration: four hours; coefficient 4 of which coefficient 1 for the question(s). »
The fourth paragraph of section 2 of the Order is replaced by the following paragraph:
"The admission test consists of an interview with the jury to assess the candidate's personality, abilities and motivation and to recognize the achievements of his professional experience. To conduct this interview, which has as its starting point a candidate's presentation on his or her professional experience, for a period of up to five minutes, the jury has the candidate's file for recognition of the achievements of the professional experience. During this interview, the candidate is also questioned on the place of public authorities and their role in the major areas of public intervention as well as on matters related to general administrative knowledge (duration: 25 minutes; coefficient 4). »
The second and third paragraphs of Article 3 of the same Order shall be replaced by the following paragraphs:
"The written eligibility test consists of:
– in a summary note on file on a general topic on the place of public authorities and their role in the major areas of public intervention (society, economy, employment, health, culture, territories, external relations...) to assess the openness of candidates to the world, their ability to analyse and question and their ability to project themselves in their future professional environment;
― to answer one or two questions that may be related to the documentary record and to verify the candidate's general administrative knowledge and knowledge of human resources management in public administrations.
For this event, the documentary file cannot exceed twenty pages.
(Duration: four hours; coefficient 4 of which coefficient 1 for the question(s). »
The fourth paragraph of section 3 of the Order is replaced by the following paragraph:
"The admission test consists of an interview with the jury to assess the candidate's personality, abilities and motivation and to recognize the achievements of his professional experience. To conduct this interview, which has as its starting point a candidate's presentation on his or her professional experience, for a period of up to five minutes, the jury has the candidate's file for recognition of the achievements of the professional experience. During this interview, the candidate is also questioned on the place of public authorities and their role in the major areas of public intervention as well as on matters related to general administrative knowledge (duration: twenty-five minutes; coefficient 4). »
In the first paragraph of Article 4 of the same Order, the words "German, English, Italian, Spanish and Russian" are replaced by the words "German, English, Italian and Spanish".
Section 5 of the same order is replaced by the following section 5:
"Art. 5.-Before September 1 of the year before that of the written examinations of the contest concerned, an order of the Minister for Public Service shall, on the proposal of the jury, set out the list of themes from which the jury proposes the subject of the composition test of the external competition, the administrative note of the internal competition and the summary note of the third competition.
For each contest, the tests are scored on twenty before applying the corresponding coefficient, except for the short answer test of the external contest whose total points are reduced to a score of twenty before applying the coefficient.
At the end of the eligibility examinations, each Eligibility Board sets out the list of candidates authorized to take part in the oral examinations, after the equalization of the grades awarded to candidates for the various eligibility tests.
Under the same conditions, at the end of the oral examinations of admission, each jury of admission shall establish the list of admissions, after equalization of the notes attributed to the candidates for oral examinations.
In preparation for the admission interviews of each competition, the jury uses an evaluation grid, the content of which is each year posted on the website of the Public Service Department.
A repository for the attention of candidates, summarizing the expectations of the jury, is posted on the website of the Ministry of Public Service. »
Title II, "Program of Tests", of the same order is replaced by title II:
« TITRE II
“PREUV PROGRAMME
"Art. 8.-The program of the second written examination of the external contest is as follows:
I. Public law
“1. Constitutional law
"A. ― State General Theory:
“1. The State and the Constitution:
"Definition and forms of the State; the original or derived power; flexible or rigid separation of powers; parliamentary or presidential regime; representative or direct democracy; Formal or material constitution; Written or customary constitution; Constitutional jurisprudence; Constitutional revision.
“2. The control of constitutionality in France:
"The rule of law and constitutionalism; the hierarchy of standards; the normativity of reference; the Constitutional Council; the control of constitutionality of treaties; control of constitutionality of laws through action or a priority issue of constitutionality.
"B. ― Current French political institutions:
“1. The executive branch:
"– the President of the Republic and the services of the Elysée;
"the Prime Minister and the Government; the General Secretariat of the Government; ministerial offices;
“—the criminal responsibility of members of the executive branch.
“2. The legislative branch:
"the organization and functioning of the National Assembly and the Senate;
“– Unqualified bicameralism and rationalized parliamentarism;
“– Parliament and the function of representation; the legislative referendum;
“– the function of legislation: ordinary laws; organic laws; Financial, security or diplomatic laws;
“—the function of control and political responsibility of the President of the Republic or Government.
“2. Administrative institutions
"A. ― The State's administrative organization:
“1. Legal and territorial frameworks of the administrative organization:
“– centralization, deconcentration and hierarchical power;
“– Territorial or functional decentralization; the administrative and financial control of the State over decentralized institutions.
“2. State administration:
"– central administration, services with national jurisdiction, decentralized services, disconnected authorities: prefects of region and department, sub-prefects and mayors, state agents;
“– Independent authorities: Autorité de la concurrence, Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel et Défenseur des droits ;
"– Central organs of council and control: Council of State; Economic, Social and Environmental Council; General Inspectorate of Finance; Court of accounts and regional or territorial chambers of accounts.
"B. ― The decentralized organization of the Republic:
“1. The constitutional framework:
“The free administration of territorial authorities; the general principles of decentralization; local democracy.
“2. Territorial authorities:
“– communities of common metropolis law: deliberate and executive assemblies of municipalities, departments and regions;
“– the local authorities with derogatory status of metropolis: Paris, Lyon and Marseille; Corsica;
" — overseas territorial authorities: Section 73 communities; Section 74 and New Caledonia communities.
“3. Other decentralized institutions:
“—public institutions of intercommunal cooperation: institutions and competencies;
“– functional public institutions of an administrative or industrial and commercial nature; public interest groups.
“3. Administrative law
"A. ― Administrative action:
“1. Administrative legality:
"—incompetence of the judge of excess power and acts of government; Inadmissibility of recourse for excess of power and domestic measures;
“—the sources of administrative law;
“– administrative jurisdiction and controls of conventionality or legality.
“2. Administrative acts:
“– unilateral administrative acts: decrees or orders; regulatory or individual administrative act; the regulatory authority; non-contentious administrative procedure: consultation, motivation, transparency; the conditions of entry into force of the administrative act; the repeal and withdrawal of the unilateral administrative act.
“– Administrative contracts:
"– criteria of distinction between administrative contracts and private contracts of the administration; the legal regime of administrative contracts; public procurement and public service delegations.
“3. The public service:
“– Definition of the concept of public service; constitutional public services; administrative public services and industrial and commercial public services; the main principles of public service; modes of public service management; public service and general economic service.
“4. The administrative police:
“– Administrative police and judicial police; definition of administrative police; General administrative police and special administrative police; municipal police;
“– Administrative police authorities; administrative police powers and measures;
“– the judicial control of administrative police measures.
"B. ― Administrative responsibility:
“1. The general principles of public responsibility; lack of service and personal fault; the theory of cumulative faults;
“2. Administrative liability for misconduct:
“– proven fault or alleged fault;
" – proven fault simple or heavy.
“3. The faultless responsibility of the administration:
Responsibility for risk and liability for breach of equality before public office;
“4. Legal administrative liability regimes.
« II.-European questions
“1. The main stages of European construction and the various enlargements
"A. ― The Founding Treaties of Paris and Rome.
"B. ― Luxembourg's compromise.
"C. ― The Single European Act.
"D. ― The Treaties of Maastricht, Amsterdam and Nice.
"E. ― The treaty establishing a constitution for Europe.
"F. ― The Lisbon Treaty.
“2. Institutional aspects of the European Union
"A. ― EU membership and withdrawal.
"B. ― Composition and powers of EU institutions.
“C. ― Composition and powers of the following bodies:
“– Committee of the Regions;
“– Economic and Social Committee;
“– COREPER;
« ― European Investment Bank.
"D. ― Role of National Parliaments:
“– competencies: internal and external;
“– categories; guiding principles (assignment, subsidiarity and proportionality);
"–performance skills.
“E. ― Revision of Treaties:
"F. ― Decision-making processes to the Council and the European Parliament.
“3. The law of the European Union
"A. ― The sources of European Union law:
“—primary law;
“—Conventional law;
“– general principles of law;
“– derivative right.
"B. ― Articulation between European Union law and national law:
"Primity;
“– direct effect;
“–Procedural autonomy;
“–actuivity.
“C. ― Protection of fundamental rights
“4. The law of the litigation of the European Union
"A. ― Cancellation and deficiency remedies.
"B. ― Default.
"C. ― Exception of illegality.
"D. ― Extra-contractual responsibility of the European Union and Member States.
"E. ― Prejudicial dismissal.
“5. The material law of the European Union
"A. ― Free movement of people and European citizenship.
"B. ― Free movement of goods.
"C. ― Free service delivery.
"D. ― Free movement of capital.
"E. ― Common Agricultural Policy.
“F. ― Regional policy:
“– Structural funds and cohesion funds.
"G. ― Common Trade Policy.
"H. ― Economic and Monetary Policy.
"I. ― Common Foreign and Security Policy.
"J. ― Social Policy.
« III.- Social questions
“1. Demographic concepts
"A. ― Demographic changes since the beginning of the 19th century:
“– Birth, fertility, mortality, life expectancy, natural surplus;
“– Urban, peri-urban and rural population.
"B. ― Migration movements:
"—historical perspectives and news.
"C. ― Population ageing.
"D. ― Structure of the working population.
“2. Social protection
"A. ― The French social security system including unemployment compensation:
“– essential principles;
"organization;
“—the role of social partners;
“– Governance;
“– the “risks” covered;
“– Financing;
“– expenditure and cost control;
“– the various reforms.
"B. ― Additional social protection.
"C. ― Social assistance.
"D. ― Social action (definition and examples).
"E. ― Social Europe: essential principles.
“3. Social policies
“A. ― Social cohesion policy:
"inequalities and redistribution;
" – fight against poverty and exclusion.
"B. ― Equal Opportunities and Anti-Discrimination Policies:
“– City politics;
“—integration of immigrants;
" – fight against discrimination.
"C. ― The social aspects of housing policy:
"– Housing aids and emergency accommodation.
"D. ― Family policy and child protection.
"E. ― Disability policy.
"F. ― Dependence.
"G. ― The role of local authorities in social policies.
“4. The labour and employment market
"A. ― The situation of employment and the characteristics of unemployment.
"B. ― The cost of work and labour productivity.
"C. ― Anti-unemployment policies, public employment services.
"D. ― Vocational training.
« 5. Employee work
"A. ― The individual working relationship:
“– the contract of work;
“– Recruitment;
" – termination.
"B. ― Collective relations:
“– Unions;
“–the staff representative institutions.
“C. ― Conflicts and negotiation:
“—the right to strike;
“– collective bargaining.
« 6. Health policies
"A. ― The state of health of the population.
"B. ― The essential elements of public health policies and the provision of care.
"C. ― Piloting health policies.
« IV.- Public events
“1. The Global Approach to Public Finance
"A. ― Legal sources:
“—European treaties and norms applicable to national public finances;
“—the budgetary, fiscal and financial provisions of the Constitution of the Fifth Republic;
“—the Organic Law on Financial Laws of August 1, 2001;
“—the regulations relating to fiscal management and public accountancy;
“– the rules of budgetary law (annuality, unity, universality, speciality, sincerity).
"B. ― Public finance concepts:
“–balances and deficits;
"–tax (definition, structuring, functions);
“– mandatory sampling;
"—tax expenditures;
"– Public debt, financing and management.
"C. ― Public finance actors:
“—the international and European bodies;
“– Financial administrations;
“– Managers, Directors and Accountants;
“– Financial courts.
"D. ― Piloting public finances:
“– the financial and budgetary governance of the euro area;
“—the economic implications of fiscal and fiscal measures;
"—the consolidated approach to state, social and local finances;
“– mastery of public spending;
"—the evaluation of public policies.
“2. The specific approach of state finances
"A. ― Financial laws:
“– the different categories of financial laws;
“ — content and structure of financial laws;
“– the preparation and adoption of financial bills;
“execution and control of financial laws;
“—Financial law and public finance programming law;
“– Financial law and social security financing law;
"—Financial law and territorial government budgets (autonomy of territorial authorities, state allocations and financial equalization mechanisms).
"B. ― Resources:
"—the different tax resources of the State;
“– other state resources of a heritage or residual nature;
" — borrowing resources;
“–from income (territorial communities and the European Union) and allocated resources (Social security).
"C. ― Expenditures:
“– the new budget architecture by missions and programs;
“– the budget nomenclature by destination and by nature;
"– the scope and modifications made during execution to the original expense authorization;
"– Multi-year spending.
"D. ― Budgetary and accounting management:
“– Performance management (globalization and asymmetricalization of budgetary appropriations, budgets and operational units of programs, indicators, projects and annual performance reports);
"– the process of recovering State revenues;
"– the process of execution of State spending;
“– the undivided management of budgetary appropriations;
"– the management of the State's debt;
"– the certification of state accounts.
"V.-Human Resources Management
“1. General information
"A. ― History and objectives of human resources management.
"B. ― Strategic human resources management challenges:
“– jurisdiction;
“– efficiency;
“– Mobilizing staff;
“– adaptation to changes.
"B. ― Human resources management tools:
“– Indicators;
“– Social balances;
“– audits;
« ― projective information;
"– Human resources information systems.
"C. ― Management and the role of managers in human resources management.
“2. Specificities of human resources management in public administrations
"A. ― General principles of the general status of staff and their application.
"B. ― Public servant's rights and obligations, ethics and discipline.
"C. ― Forecast management of staffing, employment and skills.
"D. ― Access to public employment.
"E. ― Mobility, routes and promotion.
"F. ― Training.
"G. ― Evaluation.
"H. ― Social dialogue and participation.
« VI.-Economy
“1. Basic economic concepts
"A. ― The mechanisms of the economy:
“1. The actors of the economy:
“– Households;
“– Companies;
“– Financial companies;
“– Public administrations.
“2. Economic functions:
"– the operations on goods and services: production (GDP, value added), consumption, investment, external exchanges;
“– the distribution operations: the income of the actors (profits, salaries), transfers, levies (taxes, taxes).
"B. ― Monetary mechanisms:
“1. Currency:
“– the functions of the currency;
“– monetary creation;
“– the control of monetary creation;
“– Monetary aggregates;
“– the demand for currency.
“2. Markets:
“– the foreign exchange market: the foreign exchange market, the exchange rate system, the nominal exchange rate, the real exchange rate;
“– the monetary and financial market: the stock market, bond market, interbank market, policy rates.
“2. Economic issues
"A. ― Economic growth:
“1. Basic growth scores:
“– Economic factors;
“– the decreasing factor yields.
“2. The determinants of growth:
“– technical progress;
"– innovation;
“– Infrastructure;
“—human capital;
“– outsourcing.
“3. The role of the state:
“– growth policies;
“– Sustainable growth;
"–equal growth.
"B. ― Unemployment and employment:
“1. The labour market:
"– definitions and measures: unemployment, labour force, various measures of unemployment and employment;
"– major characteristics of the labour market: unemployment by categories (women, youth, skilled etc.), labour market developments (new forms of employment, skilled and unskilled work, sectors, etc.).
“2. Unemployment causes:
“—classical and keynesian theories of unemployment;
“– rigidity of wages;
" – productivity-control;
“–the inflation-control link;
“– NAIRU;
“competition of low-wage countries;
“– role of technical progress.
"C. ― Inflation:
“1. Inflation definitions and measures:
"Inflation;
" – disinflation;
“– deflation;
"– Price index.
“2. Causes and effects of inflation:
“–cost inflation (salary, salary loop, imported inflation)
"Inflation and currency;
“– Inflation by demand;
"– effects on national and international economic activity;
“– Effects on income distribution.
"D. ― Globalization:
“1. International trade:
“– International specialization: comparative advantages and other traditional analyses;
"—new theories of world trade: imperfect competition (scale economy and differentiation of products);
“ ― free trade and protectionism: trade policy, regional groupings, unfair competition, firm strategy;
“–the actors: multinationals, states and international institutions, institutional investors.
“2. Financial globalization:
“– the international financial market: international transactions, mobility of production factors and intergenerational economies;
“– Financial crises and responses (preventive and curative policy).
“3. Underdevelopment:
“– Analysis of causes;
“– development measurement tools;
“– International development organizations.
“4. The European Union:
European construction: from ECSC to the euro zone; enlargements, the place of Europe in the world.
Economic analysis of Europe: optimal monetary zone, the theory of the European customs, monetary and fiscal union.
"E. ― Economic policies:
“1. Economic policies:
"Budget policies.
" Monetary policies.
“2. Structural policies:
"—the policy of employment;
“–the competition policy;
“—industrial policy;
"– Environmental policy. »
The Director General of Administration and Public Service is responsible for the execution of this Order, which will be published in the Official Journal of the French Republic.
Done on 27 July 2012.
For the Minister and by delegation:
Director, Assistant to Director General
Administration
and the Public Service,
T. Campeaux
