Annual study : The French Supreme Administrative Court calls for greater coherence between the sectorial regulations

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. On 21 September 2015, the Council of State presented its annual report on the economic action of public authorities. Far from dissolving in the market economy, the action of public authorities "has not retreated from the economic sphere; on the contrary, it has redeployed there along new paths and priorities" as the regulatory state succeeds the welfare state. In its study, "the Conseil d'État therefore intends to clarify and secure the foundations and scope of this action, but also to evaluate its implementation methods" (p. 5). Thus, the annual report has two parts: firstly, the annual study itself is presented, and secondly, a "guide to economic