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3.2.4. ARE THERE ACTS, DECREES OR SECONDARY LEGISLATION
WHICH ARE PUBLISHED ONLY IN ELECTRONIC FORM?
the lower cost of electronic publishing has contributed to the recent development
that in some countries a number of decrees or secondary legislation
are published only in electronic form. this kind of electronic-only publishing
has been used in france, finland and Slovenia. (In Slovenia, ‘Other instruments,
the publication of which is stipulated by law or other regulation, shall
be published only in the electronic edition unless otherwise provided by law
or other regulation.’)
In france, Decree No 2004-617 of 29 June 2004 states that certain texts are
to be published in digital form only. the texts in question are:
• regulatory acts, other than orders, which concern the administrative organisation
of the State, in particular decrees relating to the organisation of
central administrations, acts relating to the organisation of the decentralised
services of the State, and those delegating signature authority within
the State’s services and its public institutions;
• regulatory acts, other than orders, which concern public oficials and other
staff, judges and servicemen;
• regulatory acts, other than orders, which concern the State budget, in particular
decrees allocating, opening, cancelling or transferring appropriations,
those which concern support funds, account headings of the State
treasury and imprest accounts, and also budgetary and accounting directives;
• individual decisions taken by the minister for Economic Affairs in the ield
of competition;
• regulatory acts of independent administrative authorities and independent
public authorities having legal personality, other than those concerning
the general public.
furthermore, in france, Decree No 2004-459 of 28 may 2004, adopted
pursuant to Article 4 of the Order of 20 february 2004, speciies the individual
acts which may not be published in electronic form. the decrees in question
are those concerning:
• changes of name,
• acquisition, recovery, loss or forfeiture of french nationality,
• naturalisation,
• Gallicisation of forename or surname or assignment of forename.
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