Organic Laws in France
Under the current Constitution of France, organic laws are a short, fixed list of statutes (in 2005, there were about 30 of them), whose existence is provisioned by the text of the Constitution itself. According to the framing of the French Constitution (especially its preambles), they are of constitutional scope and have constitutional force. This means that they overrule ordinary statutes. They are enacted by the Parliament of France in the same way, however, except that the Constitutional Council of France must be consulted before any organic law is enacted.
This mechanism allows the French Constitution to provide flexibility where needed. Dispositions, such as the legislative process for enacting the budgets of the French state and French social security, as well as the practical procedures for the various elections, are delegated to organic laws, which reduces the need for amendments to the constitution.
In France, an important category of organic laws is budget system laws.
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