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The merger of agencies

Supplementary dossier III, simplification and coherence of public action

📅 May 2026 📄 Download the dossier (PDF)
The merger of agencies, simplification and coherence of public action

Third dossier in the supplementary series on the structural reform of the French state. After the sovereign agencies to be kept and reformed (supplementary dossier II), this dossier deals with the entities identified as needing to be merged in order to achieve administrative simplification and coherence of public action.

What this supplementary dossier III contains

This dossier deals with the entities identified in the panoramic map as needing to be merged: structures whose missions overlap, duplicate one another, or could be carried out more effectively within a larger whole. The goal is administrative simplification and coherence of public action, with no loss of mission or of service provided.

The dossier details six thematic merger blocks, identifies about 280 entities concerned, and proposes a reduction in scope of about one third (about 36%), that is, a move to about 180 entities after merger. For each proposed merger, an analysis sheet specifies the scope, the expected structural savings, the legal arrangements and the implementation timetable.

Why this series of dossiers

After the complete 377-page public dossier sent to the Prime Minister and to the candidates in the 2027 presidential election, and the panoramic map of the 1,153 national public bodies listed within the studied scope of the state, this series of supplementary dossiers goes into operational detail: what should be kept and reformed, merged, reintegrated or abolished, and on what timetable.

The aim is to provide public decision-makers, journalists and citizens with a complete, sourced and costed body of work that makes it possible to move from diagnosis to action.

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The merger of agencies (Cat B)

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Producing this dossier represented a considerable amount of work: several hundred hours of volunteer work, with no outside financial support, no advertising and no sponsor.

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