The Region has clarified its position regarding the institutional development of Overseas Territories, under study by the government, during the visit of a ministerial mission at the end of April.
On the question of institutional organization, the single-departmental region framework, specific to Reunion and Guadeloupe, is “in its current state adapted to their situations”, even if it requires “greater clarification in the distribution of skills between the two communities” : the Region must be in charge of all issues related to the economic and sustainable development of the territory. The Department must, his, be in charge of social. “With regard to the adaptation of the law and authorizations, the needs of development require that local authorities and elected officials who are as close as possible to realities be able to, in the spirit of the principle of subsidiarity, enact rules adapted to the specificities of the territory in areas as diverse as standards, employment, the economy, the environment, planning or even energy, continues the Region. Martinique, Guyana and Guadeloupe have this option, but not Reunion due to paragraph 5 [of section 73, ndr] of the Constitution. This is why this paragraph 5, said “amendment cannot”, must be deleted”.
