Items of News
| Published date | 01 September 1972 |
| Date | 01 September 1972 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1177/002085237203800318 |
| Subject Matter | Articles |
ITEMS OF NEWS
CONTENTS -
ARTICLE (pages 353 to 356)
France : The Administration and the Private Sector
TECHNICAL CO-OPERATION (pages 356 to 357)
Colombia
NEWS
IN BRIEF (page 357)
Nicaragua, Switzerland, United Nations
CHRONICLE OF THE INSTITUTE (page 358)
chain of command inherited from the First
FRANCE
Empire on which the Administration had
been founded was taken into account, some
The Administration and the Private Sector (*)
idea would be obtained of the extent of
the problems raised by the relations betweeu
the Administration
An important
and
Colloquium
the private sector.
on the Admin- -
istration and the Private Sector, organized
The first series of addresses
by the Aix-Marseilles Faculty of Law and
were on the
Political
Traditional
Science Administrative Research Cen-
Image of the Relations between
the Administration and the Private Sector.
tre and the Association of Law Graduates of
Professor J.-C.
the
Venezia stressed the
University,
funda-
was held at Aix-en-Provence
mental uncertainty which affected the relations
on 1-2 June 1972.
between the two fields and already arose as
The Dean of the Faculty, Professor Debbasch,
regards the definition of each sector, but
introduced the subject by stating that the
turned to confusion because of their borrowings
traditional liberal views and those of an
from each other. That was reflected in the
Administration which claimed to be alone
three stages through which the relations
capable of managing the general interest
had passed, viz. non-intervention until 1914,
seemed quite irreconcilable. Their separation
supremacy of the public sector until shortly
was, however, as far as training and recruitment
after the Liberation, and today’s peaceful
as well as institutions were concerned, belied
coexistence. The two words which defined
by the tentacular growth of an all-pervasive
the present state of the relations between the
Administration whose enlargement was in-
public and the private sectors were &dquo; coopera-
dissolubly linked with French ideas about the
tion &dquo; and &dquo; competition &dquo;. Those two attitudes
.
State. Paradoxically, just when the separation
were not, however, without ambiguity in
seemed most radical and the irreconcilability
so far as the Administration’s borrowings from
absolute, the statement was brought back
the private sector’s methods were always
into question because the French administra-
solely on behalf of the general interest, since
tion, on account of its
their
very size, could no
purposes remained dissimilar.
longer satisfactorily fulfil some of its most
essential tasks, such as its rule-making function.
Though Dean Debbasch had outlined the
If, in addition, the complete change in the
problems, while opening up a few avenues
of discussion, and Professor Venezia had,
as he put it, given the &dquo; kick-off &dquo;, it was
(*) Communicated by Mr. Jean-Claude Ricci,
Mr.
Assistant at the
Duport who dealt with the crucial
Faculty of Law and Political Science,
part
Aix-Marseilles,
of the subject. He indicated how the Admin-
354
istration was viewed by the private sector
administration and the private sector -
should
and drew special attention to two points :
not be to the disadvantage of the &dquo; third
the difficulties of the dialogue between the
world &dquo;, the users or citizens.
two partners and the economic interventionism
Professor
of the State. The weight of the historical
Savy was even more definite, and
remarked that, if he were asked to
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