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Three branches of the civil service
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Three branches of the civil service
The State civil service, the territorial civil service and the hospital civil service.
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Categories A, B and C
A: design and management. B: application and supervision. C: execution tasks.
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Le Pors law
13 July 1983, the first part of the general statute of civil servants.
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Laws of Rolland
Continuity, equality and adaptability of public services.
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Article 6 of the 1789 Declaration
All citizens are equally admissible to public positions according to their capacity.
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Duty of neutrality
A civil servant treats all users alike and does not show personal beliefs in the role.
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Duty of professional discretion
A civil servant does not disclose facts learned in the course of work.
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Prefect
Represents the State in a département or region and ensures that laws are applied.
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Mayor
Executive head of the commune, elected by the municipal council.
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Regions
Thirteen in metropolitan France since 2016.
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Conseil d'État
Top administrative court and legal adviser of the government.
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Cour de cassation
Top court for civil and criminal cases; checks the application of the law.
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Conseil constitutionnel
Checks that laws comply with the Constitution and oversees elections.
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Cour des comptes
Audits public accounts and publishes reports.
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Défenseur des droits
Independent authority defending rights against the administration.
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CNIL
French authority that protects personal data.
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QPC
Priority question of constitutionality: a party in a trial challenges a law since 2010.
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Hierarchy of norms
Constitution, then international treaties, laws, regulations.
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Loi de finances
Annual law that sets State revenue and spending.
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European Commission
Proposes EU laws and oversees their application.
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Percentage change
Change divided by the starting value, times 100.
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Work rate
If A does a job in a hours and B in b hours, together they need ab / (a + b) hours.
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Average speed
Total distance divided by total time, not the mean of the speeds.
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Compound interest
Amount = capital × (1 + rate) raised to the number of years.
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Subjunctive after bien que
Use the subjunctive: bien que nous soyons fatigués.
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Past participle agreement
With avoir, it agrees with a direct object placed before the verb.

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