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Inter-parliamentary Relations

• The international activities of the National Assembly
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The Administration of the National Assembly

• The Status of Civil Servants of the National Assembly
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• The Secretariats of Political Groups
• Parliamentary Assistants (or M.P.s secretaries)

Basic texts

• Constitution
• Rules of procedure of the National Assembly
• Bureau Regulation (IGB)
• Index to the Rules of Procedure and to the Bureau Regulations
• Rules of Procedure of the Congress
• Ordinance on the functioning of the parliamentary assemblies
• Institutional Act on Budget Acts
• Compilation of texts concerning the public authorities

General documentation

• Brief parliamentary lexicon
• 'Welcome to the Assembly' brochure
• A day at the National Assembly (video in French) [[Video in English]]
• Who does what in the hemicycle?
• Guide to the drafting of legislation (May 2009)

Assembly activity

• Duration of the common and extraordinary sessions under the V^th Republic
• Overall assessment of the legislature : 2002-2007
• Activity report: 2009 - 2008 - 2007 - 2006 - 2005 - 2004 - 2003 - 2002
• Overall assessment of the session : 2005/2006 - 2004/2005 -  2003/2004 - 2002/2003
• Parliamentary activity statistics:
   XIII^th Legislature, XII^th Legislature, XI^thLegislature
• Statistics on June 30 ^th 2009 of  the enforcement of promulgated acts between July 1^st 2007 and December 31^st 2008
• Statistics of the use of Article 49 of the Constitution under the V^th Republic : art. 49, paragraph 1 - art. 49, paragraph 2 - art. 49, paragraph 3
• Accounts report: 2008 - 2007 - 2006 - 2005 - 2004 - 2003 - 2002 - 2001
• Report of the joint appropriations committee on the budget of the assemblies ("jaune budgétaire" - budgetary annex): 2006 - 2005- 2004 - 2003
• The budget allocation for the National Assembly (in allocation for the authorities mission, website Forum de la performance, Ministry of Budget, Public Accounts and Reform of the State ) :  2010 - 2009 - 2008 - 2007
• Representation of interests at the National Assembly

Assembly bodies

• The President
• The Bureau
• The Chairmen' Conference
• The Questeurs
• Political groups
• Approval and operation of study groups

The Assembly and interest groups

• Representatives of interests at the National Assembly

Election of M.P.s

• Reference texts
• Election of M.P.s
• Knowledge of the Assembly No 8 : Election of M.P.s
• General elections of June 2007 [in French] - [in English]
• General elections of June 2002 [in French] - [in English]
• By elections: since 2007 - from 2002 to 2005 - from 1997 to 2001
• Previous elections

The M.P.'s service rules

• Knowledge of the Assembly No 7 : The M.P.'s service rules
• The M.P.
• The M.P.'s allowance and material situation
• Incompatibilities
• Immunity
• Group secretariats and the staff of deputies

French institutional system

• Elections in France
• French political institutions

Departments

• Staff regulations
• Organization chart of departments

Other institutions

• President of the Republic
• Government
• Senate
• Congress
• Constitutional Council
• High Court
• Court of Justice of the Republic
• Mediator of the Republic
• La Cour of Auditors
• Economic, Social and Environmental Council
• Links to the websites of world parliaments

Foreign parliaments

• House of Commons
• Bundestag
• United States Congress
• European Parliament
• Member states of the European Union and their Parliament (Links to the parliamentary websites)
• Links to the websites of world parliaments

General history

• Ordinance of Villers-Cotterêts (August 1539)
• La Marseillaise, national anthem
• 11 novembre 1918 : Reading of the Armistice at the Chamber of Deputies
• The Appeal of 18 June 1940 [Chronology]

History of institutions

• Former French constitutions
• September 28^th, 1958 : the Constitution was adopted by referendum
• October 4^th, 1958 : The Constitution was promulgated
• December 9^th, 1958 : commencement of the first legislature of the Fifth Republic
• Presidents of the Republic, Prime Ministers and legislatures since 1958
• Political regimes, constitutions and legislatures since 1789
• Historic data base : Governments and Presidents of the parliamentary assemblies since 1789
• "Knowledge of the Assembly" Collection : Governments and parliamentary assemblies (1958 - 2008)
• Digital encyclopedia : Origins of democracy : Les origines de la démocratie - Birth of parliaments - Democracy today
• The Republic and universal suffrage
• History of decentralisation
• Creation of the overseas departments

Heritage

Palais Bourbon and Hôtel de Lassay

• A palace for democracy [English version]
• History of the Palais Bourbon and the Hôtel de Lassay
• From the acquisition of the Palais Bourbon to the reconstruction of the hemicycle
• Knowledge of the Assembly no 10 : The Palais Bourbon from past to present times
• The floods in the Palais Bourbon in January 1910
• August 25^th 1944 : The Chamber of Deputies after the fighting
• The Hôtel de Lassay from the Regency to our days
• Place du Palais Bourbon
• Visiting the Palais Bourbon and Hôtel de Lassay
• Virtual visit of the National Assembly
• Electronic guide round the Palais Bourbon
• Evolution of the architecture of the Palais Bourbon
• Paintings by Delacroix in salon du Roi

The library

• The library and its history
• Operation
• Partnership Agreement between the BNF and the Library of the National Assembly
• The library and its masterpieces (old collection)
• Facsimile of La Marseillaise
• Paintings by Delacroix
• Busts by Daumier
• Busts of Marianne

Archives and historic research

• Website of the Archives of the National Assembly
• Archive index of the V^th Republic (analytic tables of debates and nominative tables)
• Historic minutes (Tennis Court Oath - serment du Jeu de paume, Trial of Louis XVI, sittings of 19 Brumaire an VIII at the Council of Five Hundred - Conseil des Cinq-cents - and at the Council of Ancients - Conseil des Anciens)
• Documents available for consultation at the Archives unit
• Eugène Pierre : Traité de droit politique, électoral et parlementaire
• Parliamentary history prize or law thesis prize
• Research grant
• Opening times of the reading room at the Archives unit

The Children's Parliament

• 16^thChildren's Parliament- Saturday June 5, 2010
• Presentation of the Children's Parliament
• Previous editions :
  • 2009 - 2008 - 2006 - 2005 - 2004 - 2003 - 2002 - 2001
    - 2000 - 1999 - 1998
• The World Children's Parliament (October 1999)

Payroom

• 200 years of history in 24 questions (level 1)
• Playing about the history of Parliament (level 2)
• Quiz in 12 questions
• Anagrams

Calendars

• 'The green sheet' (table of the next sittings)
• Work Programme of the National Assembly (drawn up by the Chairmen's Conference)
• Projected schedule of the session (Distribution between government initiative, private member's control and suspension of work)
• Calendar of monthly sittings devoted to M.P.s' business
• Agenda of the Bureau
• Press
• Events

Meetings

• Meetings initiated by political groups
• Meetings at the initiative of M.P.s
• Study groups and friendship groups meetings
• Other meetings

Retrospective

• Retrospective of work of the Assembly
• Agenda archive (since January 18, 2005)

Work programme of the next weeks

• Work programme drawn up by the Chairmen's Conference
• Table of the next sittings ('the green sheet'))

Programme de travail of the ongoing session

• Projected schedule of the session
• Sittings devoted to M.P.s' business and questions for oral answer without debate Schedule - Members' Bills- Debates

Legislative work in progress

• Status of Assembly business (Government and Members' bills)

RECORD OF PROCEEDINGS IN THE XIII^th LEGISLATURE (2007-2012)

• 2011-2010
  • Ordinary session (October 1^st to June 30^th 2011)
    • Verbatim report
• 2009-2010
  • Extraordinary session (from July 1^st 2010)
    • Verbatim report
  • Ordinary session (October 1^st 2009 to June 30^th 2010)
    • Verbatim report
  • Finance Act 2010 - Extended Committee meetings
    • Verbatim report
• 2008-2009
  • 2^nd Extraordinary session (September 14^th to 29^th 2009)
    • Verbatim report
  • Extraordinary session (July 1^st to 24^th 2009)
    • Verbatim report
  • Ordinary session (October 1^st 2008 to June 30^th 2009)
    • Verbatim report
  • Finance Act 2009 - Extended Committee meetings
    • Verbatim report

Lists of all documents

• Detailed search
• Legislative dossiers : general index of work
• Legislative work in progress : Status of Assembly business (Government and Members' bills)
• Chronological list of documents (list of deposits)
• Bulletin of petitions

Legislative procedure

• Government bills tabled at the National Assembly
• Responding to impact assessments
• Government bills authorising the ratification of treaties or international agreements
• Members' bills tabled at the National Assembly
• Motions pursuant to Article 72-4 of the Constitution
• Legislative reports
• Amendments
• Adopted texts
• Acts submitted to the Constitutional Council
• Promulgated Acts
• Compilation of Acts
• Ordinances
• Reports on the implementation of Acts

Rules of Procedure of the National Assembly

• Draft resolutions amending the Rules of  Procedure
• Rules of Procedure of the National Assembly

Standing committees

• The eight standing committees
  • Cultural affairs and Education
  • Economic affairs
  • Foreign affairs
  • Social affairs
  • National defence and armed forces
  • Spatial Planning and Sustainable Territorial Development
  • Finance
  • Acts

• The previous standing committees
  • Cultural, family and social affairs
  • Economic, Environmental and Regional Planning

Committee Fact-findings

• Access to Committee Fact-findings

Special committees

• Access to Special committees

Joint committees

• Access to Joint committees

COMMITTEE WORK

Standing committees

• Cultural affairs and Education Committee
  (composition, reports and meeting reports):

-The Chairwoman

- Composition

- Legislative reports

- Information reports

- Reports on the implementation of Acts

- Meeting reports

- VOD

• Economic affairs Committee
  (composition, reports and meeting reports):

- The Chairman

- Composition

- Legislative reports

- Information reports

- Reports on the implementation of Acts

- Meeting reports

- VOD

• Foreign affairs Committee
  (composition, reports and meeting reports):

- Chairmen of the committee under the V^th Republic

- Composition [XIII^th Legislature - XII^th Leg. - XI^th Leg.]

- Legislative reports
[XIII^th Legislature - XII^th Legislature - XI^th Legislature]

- Fact-finding missions

- Information reports
[XIII^th Legislature - XII^th Legislature - XI^th Legislature]

- Meeting reports [XIII^th Legislature - XII^th Leg. - XI^th Leg.]

- VOD

• Social affairs Committee
  (composition, reports and meeting reports):

- The Chairman

- Composition

- Legislative reports

- Information reports

- Reports on the implementation of Acts

- Meeting reports

- VOD

• National defence and armed forces Committee
  (composition, reports and meeting reports):

- Chairmen of the committee under the V^th Republic

- Composition [XIII^th Legislature - XII^th Leg. - XI^th Leg.]

- Legislative reports
[XIII^th Legislature - XII^th Legislature - XI^th Legislature]

- Fact-finding missions

- Information reports
[XIII^th Legislature - XII^th Legislature - XI^th Legislature]

- Meeting reports [XIII^th Legislature - XII^th Leg. - XI^th Leg.]

- VOD

Social security finance Acts

• Social Security Finance Acts since 1998
• Assessment and Monitoring Mission on Social Security Finance Laws (MECSS)

European affairs

• Committee of European affairs
  • Agenda
  • European Union section

Commission for the Assessment and Monitoring

• Commission for the Assessment and Monitoring of Public Policies

Delegations and Assessment Offices

• Dashboards

Delegations

• Delegation for Women's Rights
  • Agenda
  • Delegation meeting reports
  • Delegation information reports
  • Symposia organised by the delegation
• Parliamentary Delegation for Intelligence
  • Composition
  • Delegation public reports : 2008-2009
• Delegation for Spatial Planning and Sustainable Territorial Development (until June 2009)
  • Agenda
  • Delegation meeting reports
  • Delegation information reports
  • Topic : Sustainable development

Assessment Offices

• Office for Science and Technology Assessment
  • Composition
  • Agenda
  • Office meeting reports
  • Office information reports
• Office for Legislation Assessment (until June 2009)
  • Composition
  • Bureau
  • Agenda
  • Office meeting reports
  • Office information reports
• Office for the Assessment of Health Policies (until June 2009)
  • Composition
  • Bureau
  • Agenda
  • Office meeting reports
  • Office information reports

Offices

• Office for Science and Technology Assessment
  • Composition
  • Agenda
  • Meeting reports
  • Information reports

The previous offices :

• Office for Legislation Assessment (until June 2009)
  • Composition
  • Bureau
  • Agenda
  • Meeting reports
  • Information reports
• Office for the Assessment of Health Policies (until June 2009)
  • Composition
  • Bureau
  • Agenda
  • Meeting reports
  • Information reports

Committees of inquiry

Committee work of the XIII^th Legislature

• Inquiry reports

• Draft resolutions to create Committees of Inquiry

• Work completed:
  • Committee of inquiry on the way has been programmed, explained and managed the campaign of vaccination H1N1 influenza vaccine
    - Meeting reports
    [Video]
  • Committee of Inquiry on the conditions of release of medics Bulgarian prisoners in Libya and the recent agreements between France and Libya

• Work in progress:
  • Committee of Inquiry on the mechanisms of speculation in the functioning of economies
    - Meeting reports

Activities of the Committees of Inquiry under the previous Legislatures

• List of Committees of Inquiry created under the V^th Republic
• Activities of the Committees of Inquiry under the X^th et  XI^th Legislatures
• Activities of the Committees of Inquiry under the XII^th Legislature
• [Previous Programmes of the video streaming]

Archive of Committee work

• XII^th Legislature
• XI^th Legislature
• Symposia (XI^th Legislature)
• Thematic issues (XI^th Legislature)

French Presidency of the European Union

Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly

Franco-German relations

The Weimar Triangle

General international activity of the Assembly

• International parliamentary relations
• The Assembly's international agenda
• The Bureau's international activity
• Receptions in the hemicycle of foreign Heads of State or Government
• Interviews of the President of the National Assembly with foreign personalities:
      – Mr. Bernard Accoyer's Presidency (XIII^th Legislature)
      – Retrospective XII^th Legislature : Mr. Jean-Louis Debré's Presidency - Mr. Patrick Ollier's Presidency
   
• Meetings of parliamentary assembly speakers
• Centenary of the Entente Cordiale
• Franco-german relations

Parliamentary cooperation

• General presentation
• Programmes

• United Nations
• Western Europe
• Central and Baltic Europe
• Russia and Eastern Europe
• Africa
• Near and Middle East
• North America
• Latin America
• Asia and Oceania
• Cycle training ENA National Assembly, Senate
      – XIII^th Legislature
      – XII^th Legislature

The French group at the international Inter-Parliamentary Union

• Presentation
• France at the IPU
• Latest activities
• IPU website

Friendship groups

• Dashboard
• Search by alphabetic order
• Search by geographic areas
• Search by maps
• General presentation
• Information reports
• Recent activities
• Next meetings

Delegations and offices

• Delegation for the European Union
• Delegation for Women's rights
• Delegation for Spatial Planning and Sustainable Territorial Development
• Parliamentary Office for Science and Technology Assessment
• Parliamentary Office for Legislation Assessment
• ParliamentaryOffice for the Assessment of Health Policies

Reports by delegations and offices

• Information reports by the Delegation for Women's rights
• Information reports by the Delegation for spatial Planning
• Reports by the Parliamentary Office for evaluation of scientific and technological options
• Reports by the Office for Legislation Assessment
• Reports by the Office for the Assessment of Health Policies

Meeting reports of delegations and offices

• Delegation for Women's Rights
• Delegation for Spatial Planning and Sustainable Territorial Development
• Delegation for the European Union
• Parliamentary Office for evaluation of scientific and technological options
• Office for Legislation Assessment
• Office for the Assessment of Health Policies

Assessment and Monitoring Mission (MEC)
Assessment and Monitoring Mission on Social Security Finance Laws (MECSS)
Committee Fact-finding missions

Delegation for the European Union

• Work of the Delegation for the European Union

Friendship groups

• Information reports by friendship groups
• Activities of friendship groups and international study groups

Legislative documents

Lists of all documents

• Detailed search
• Legislative dossiers: general index of work
• List of tabled documents
• Compilation of Acts and adopted resolutions

Lists by nature of document

• Members' bills
• Government bills
• Legislative reports
• Promulgated Acts
• Treaties and international agreements
• Adopted texts
• Acts submitted to the Constitutional Council
• Ordinances
• Pending bills at the National Assembly at the end of the XII^th Legislature

Presidency

Mr. Jean-Louis Debré (June 25, 2002 March 4, 2007)

• Biography of Mr. Jean-Louis Debré
• Poll for the President's election - Photo spread
• Speeches by the President
• Interviews by the President with foreign personalities
• Annual reports handed to the President

Mr. Patrick Ollier (March 7, 2007 June 19, 2007)

• Biography of Mr. Patrick Ollier (elected President on March 7, 2007)
• Poll for the President's election - Photo spread
• Interviews by the President with foreign personalities
• Personalities appointed by the President

Assembly activity

• Parliamentary activity statistics of the XII^th Legislature
• Brief overview of work of the XII^th Legislature
• Activity report:  2002 - 2003 - 2004 - 2005 - 2006
• The assessment of the session: 2002-2003 - 2003-2004 - 2004-2005 - 2005-2006
• Accounts report: 2002 - 2003 - 2004- 2005 - 2006
• Report of the joint appropriation committee on the budget of the assemblies ('jaune budgétaire' - budgetary annex) : 2002 - 2003 - 2004 - 2005 - 2006

Events

• Events from 2002 to 2007

MEMBERS OF THE XII^th LEGISLATURE

National Assembly bodies

The Bureau and the Chairmen's Conference

• Composition of the Bureau
• Composition of Bureau delegations
• Composition of the Chairmen's Conference

Political groups

• Composition of political groups
• Political statements by groups
• Allocation of seats in the hemicycle

Committees, delegations and offices

• Composition of committees
• Composition of committees per political group
• Composition of delegations and offices

Study groups or friendship groups

• Composition of study groups
• Composition of friendship groups and of international study groups

Judicial bodies

• Composition of the Court of Justice of the Republic

Scrutiny, assessment, information

Issues of the government's responsibility

• Government statements
• Making a matter an issue of the government's responsibility, motions of censure

Committees of inquiry

• Resolutions drafts to create a committee of inquiry
• Inquiry reports

Delegations and offices

• Delegation for the European Union
• Delegation for Women's rights
• Delegation for Spatial Planning and Sustainable Territorial Development
• Parliamentary Office for Science and Technology Assessment
• Parliamentary Office for Legislation Assessment

Information reports

• Committee information reports [analytic index]
• Information reports by the Delegation for Women's rights
• Information reports of the Delegation for spatial Planning
• Information reports of friendship groups

Reports by the Offices

• Reports by the Parliamentary Office for evaluation of scientific and technological options
• Reports by the Office for Legislative Assessment
• Reports by the Office for the Assessment of Public Policies

Assessment and Monitoring Mission (MEC)

Delegation for the European Union

• Work of the Delegation for the European Union

Friendship groups

• Information reports of friendship groups
• Activities of friendship groups

Reports of the debates and meetings

• Report of the debates
• Verbatim report: sessions 1998-1999, 1999-2000, 2000-2001, 2001-2002
• Summary record of the debates: sessions 1998-1999, 1999-2000, 2000-2001, 2001-2002
• Reports of committee meetings: Cultural affairs - Foreign affairs -Defence - Finance - Acts -Production -Bioethics
• Reports of delegation meetings: Spatial Planning - Women' rights - European Union
• Activities of friendship groups and international study groups

Presidency

• Speeches by the President

Assembly activity

• Parliamentary activity statistics of the XI^th Legislature
• Activity report:  2002 - 2001 - 2000 - 1999 - 1998
• Accounts report: 2002 - 2001 - 2000 - 1999 - 1998 - 1997
• Report of the joint appropriation committee on the budget of the assemblies ('jaune budgétaire' - budgetary annex): 2002 - 2001 - 2000

Events

• Events from 1997 to 2002

MEMBERS OF THE XI^th LEGISLATURE

National Assembly bodies

The Bureau and the Chairmen's Conference

• Composition of the Bureau
• Composition of Bureau delegations
• Composition of the Chairmen's Conference

Political groups

• Composition of political groups
• Political statements by groups
• Allocation of seats in the hemicycle

Committees, delegations and offices

• Composition of committees
• Composition of committees per political group
• Composition of delegations and offices

Study groups or friendship groups

• Composition of study groups
• Composition of friendship groups and of international study groups

Judicial bodies

• Judicial bodies

Action at the head of the Assembly

• President's agenda
• International activities
• Events at the National Assembly
• Composition of the staff
• Personalities appointed by the President

La présidence de l'Assemblée nationale

• The role of the President of the National Assembly
• Presidents of the National  Assembly since 1789

National Assembly bodies

The Bureau and the Chairmen's Conference

• Composition of  the Bureau
• Composition of Bureau delegations
• Composition of the Chairmen's Conference

Political groups

• Composition of political groups
• Political statements by groups
• Allocation of seats in the hemicycle

Committees, delegations and offices

• Composition of committees
• Composition of committees per political group
• Composition of delegations and offices

Study groups or friendship groups

• Composition of study groups
• Composition of friendship groups and of international study groups

Judicial bodies

• Composition of the Court of Justice of the Republic

• Calendar of legislative elections, 2007 and documentation
• Legislative elections, 2002
• The previous elections

Results by constituency

• Election map

List of M.P.s elected on June 10^th and 17^th  2007 (final list after the two rounds)

• Alphabetical list

• Constituency list

• Detailed lists of M.P.s elected in the second round
  • List of outgoing M.P.s
  • List of former M.P.s
  • List of M.P.s elected for the first time
  • List of women M.P.s

List of M.P.s by age

• List of M.P.s by age

Electoral litigation

• Requests and decisions (website of the Constitutional Council)
• Observations of the Constitutional Council

• Contact a M.P.
• Directory of National Assembly departments

Competitive examinations open for registration now or in the near future

• Schedule (ask for registration forms)

• Results

• Appointment of the candidates admitted to the competition:
  • General Information
  • Appointments
• Contact
• Right of access and rectification

• Assembly agenda
• Association of parliamentary journalists
• The Appointments of the parliamentary presse