Translation of "division des affaires territoriales " (French → English) :

Territorial Authorities, Transfrontier Cooperation and Regional Planning Division

Territorial and Social Development Branch

Territorial Affairs Branch

Legal Affairs and Control Division

International Affairs Division

8. Stresses the need to tackle the fragmented system of local government and to create a functional local governance system able to respond to citizens’ needs by the efficient provision of public services; calls for a strengthening of the administrative capacity of local governments, enabling them to exercise their authority and implement legislation in a financially sustainable way; calls for the transparency, effectiveness and inclusiveness of local governments to be enforced; notes the CC’s ruling on the legal challenge to the reform on administrative and territorial division of the country;

8. Stresses the need to tackle the fragmented system of local government and to create a functional local governance system able to respond to citizens’ needs by the efficient provision of public services; calls for a strengthening of the administrative capacity of local governments, enabling them to exercise their authority and implement legislation in a financially sustainable way; calls for the transparency, effectiveness and inclusiveness of local governments to be enforced; notes the CC’s ruling on the legal challenge to the reform on administrative and territorial division of the country;

8. Stresses the need to tackle the fragmented system of local government and to create a functional local governance system able to respond to citizens’ needs by the efficient provision of public services; calls for a strengthening of the administrative capacity of local governments, enabling them to exercise their authority and implement legislation in a financially sustainable way; calls for the transparency, effectiveness and inclusiveness of local governments to be enforced; notes the CC’s ruling on the legal challenge to the reform on administrative and territorial division of the country; invites the competent authorities, in v ...[+++]iew of the upcoming local elections, to implement the recommendations made by the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) and the Central Election Commission; calls for the independence and capacities of electoral bodies to be enhanced;

The next letter was from Marion Lefebvre, chief claims negotiator, native affairs division.