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The weight of standards has jumped 95% in 20 years in the land of bureaucracy. However, the production of laws by a Parliament without a majority could soon slow down.
By Kevin Badeau
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L’Inflation doesn’t just hit the economy. It also strikes French law, as revealed by senior civil servant Christophe Eoche-Duval, author of the study “A “French evil”: its “e-norm”, legal production? (2022). The number of words used to express standards has jumped by 95.1% in twenty years, from 22.6 million in 2002 to 44.1 million in 2022. The Labor Code is an emblematic case of this “normative inflation” . While it contained 818 pages in 1956, its Dalloz version now has 3,889 (+ 375%)!
To find such figures, the senior official asked software to calculate the number of words on Légifrance. This website lists the laws, decrees, regulations and other ordinances of French law. The method used by…
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