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The reintegration of agencies into ministries

Supplementary dossier IV, clarity and political accountability

📅 May 2026 📄 Download the dossier (PDF)
The reintegration of agencies into ministries

Fourth dossier in the supplementary series on the structural reform of the French state. After the agencies to be kept and reformed (dossier II) and those to be merged (dossier III), this dossier deals with the entities whose outsourcing outside their supervising ministries is no longer justified, and which must be reintegrated into the central administrations.

What this supplementary dossier IV contains

This dossier deals with the entities identified in the panoramic map as needing to be reintegrated into their supervising ministries. The challenge is to restore the clarity of public action and the political accountability of ministers for the policies they are supposed to steer. When a mission structurally belongs to a ministry, it must be carried out by that ministry, and not by an outsourced agency that dilutes responsibilities and complicates oversight.

The dossier identifies about 400 entities to be reintegrated, organized into 30 level 2-A sheets (priority entities) and 100 level 2-B sheets (secondary entities). For each entity, an analysis specifies the target ministry, the expected operating savings, the arrangements for transferring staff and assets, 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 reintegration of agencies (Cat C)

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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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