Eliminate the National Agencies for housing, urban renewal, etc. and “refocus” their organization: LR senators tabled a bill to tackle the “profusion” of state agencies.
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It is a highly sensitive project that the Les Républicains group intends to lead to the Senate : that of the in-depth overhaul of the architecture of public agencies. In a context of increased budgetary pressure and questioning of the effectiveness of public action, the right-wing senatorial majority is advancing its pawns with a text which directly targets several emblematic operators.
A political offensive to “regain control” of the state apparatus
Filed Monday April 27, 2026 and made public the next day, the bill brought by the LR group to the Senate aims to “rethinking agencification to strengthen public action“, according to its authors. Co-signed by Mathieu Darnaud, president of the group, and Pauline Martin, the text is a continuation of the work carried out in 2025 by the senatorial commission of inquiry led by Christine Lavardewhich then pointed to “lack of vision“of the State regarding the cost and efficiency of its agencies and operators.
In its explanatory memorandum, the bill states:aim to make public action more readable, more effective and more accountable“, while taking care to specify that she “is not part of a logic of distrust towards public agencies and operators, some of which have demonstrated their usefulness, but in a desire to put an end to the proliferation of autonomous structures without real evaluation and to refocus the administrative organization around the State“.
The LR group intends to include this text on the agenda for the month of June, a sign of a desire to accelerate on a subject that has become structuring in the public debate, as it confirmed to AFP.
Deletions, transfers, refocusing
At the heart of the system, around twenty measures which reflect a resolutely interventionist approach, going so far as to propose the pure and simple elimination of several major agencies. In particular, the Regional Health Agencies (ARS) are targeted, whose powers would be transferred to new decentralized services placed under the authority of the prefects, marking an assumed return to a more vertical organization of the State.
The text also provides for the disappearance of National Housing Agency (Anah) and National Agency for Urban Renewal (Anru), with a redeployment of their missions towards other structures or directly within the competent ministries. The same logic would apply to the National Sports Agency and the National Book Center, whose prerogatives would be reintegrated into the ministerial fold.
In a less radical register, the Environment and Energy Management Agency (ADEME), regularly criticized for its functioning, would be the subject of a refocusing on its “economic missions”, reflecting a desire for reorientation rather than suppression. © ADEME
This legislative initiative is based on the conclusions of the senatorial commission of inquirywhich estimated in July 2025 at around 540 million euros the potential gains from a reform of the organization of agencies and operators“with unchanged public policies“. His work also made it possible to measure theextent of the “agencification” phenomenonwith a census of 434 operators, 317 advisory bodies and 1,153 national public bodies.
