• Sitting work
• Committee work
• Scrutiny, assessment, information
• Budget and social security
• Parliamentary documents
• European Union
• International relations
• Archives of the XII^th legislature
• Archives of the XI^th legislature
• Press

• Presidency
• Deputies
• Knowledge of the National Assembly
• History and heritage
• Practical information
• Juniors
• Competitive examinations and recruitment
• Events
• LCP - National Assembly
• The National Assembly Boutique
• Government procurement

XIII^th legislature

Previous sittings

Debates

• Summary record and verbatim report (archives)
• Recorded broadcast of questions to the government sittings

Public ballots of the XIII^th legislature

• Chronological tables
• List of solemn public votes

Acts and resolutions

• Adopted texts
• Acts submitted or referred to the Constitutional Council
• Promulgated Acts
• Compilation of adopted Acts and resolutions

Statistics and archives

• Overview of work
• Parliamentary activity statistics
• Order of business (since January 2005)
   

Legislative work in progress

• Status of Assembly business (Government and Members' bills)

The committees

Presentation of the committees

Standing committees

• Cultural, family and social affairs
• Economic affairs
• Foreign affairs
• National defence and armed forces
• Finance
• Acts

• Cultural, family and social affairs Committee
  (composition, reports and meeting reports) :

- Chairmen of the committee under the V^th Republic

- composition [XIII^th legislature - XII^th leg. - XI^th leg.]

- legislative reports
[XIII^th legislature - XII^th legislature - XI^th legislature]

- MECSS - Committee information task forces

- information reports
[XIII^th legislature - XII^th legislature - XI^th legislature]

- reports on the application of the law
[XIII^th legislature - XII^th legislature]

- meeting reports [XIII^th legislature - XII^th leg. - XI^th leg.]

• Economic affairs Committee
  (composition, reports and meeting reports) :

- Chairmen of the committee under the V^th Republic

- composition [XIII^th legislature - XII^th leg. - XI^th leg.]

- legislative reports
[XIII^th legislature - XII^th legislature - XI^th legislature]

- Committee information task forces

- information reports
[XIII^th legislature - XII^th legislature - XI^th legislature]

- reports on the application of the law
[XIII^th legislature - XII^th legislature ]

- meeting reports [XIII^th legislature - XII^th leg. - XI^th leg.]

• Foreign affairs Committee
  (composition, reports and meeting reports) :

- Chairmen of the committee under the V^th Republic

- composition [XIII^th legislature - XII^th leg. - XI^th leg.]

- legislative reports
[XIII^th legislature - XII^th legislature - XI^th legislature]

Committee information task forces

- information reports
[XIII^th legislature - XII^th legislature - XI^th legislature]

- meeting reports [XIII^th legislature - XII^th leg. - XI^th leg.]

• National defence and armed forces
  (composition, reports and meeting reports) :

- Chairmen of the committee under the V^th Republic

- composition [XIII^th legislature - XII^th leg. - XI^th leg.]

- legislative reports
[XIII^th legislature - XII^th legislature - XI^th legislature]

- Committee information task forces

- information reports
[XIII^th legislature - XII^th legislature - XI^th legislature]

- meeting reports [XIII^th legislature - XII^th leg. - XI^th leg.]

• Finance Committee
  (composition, reports and meeting reports) :

- Chairmen of the committee  - General Rapporteurs
  under the V^th Republic

- composition [XIII^th legislature - XII^th leg. - XI^th leg.]

- legislative reports
[XIII^th legislature - XII^th legislature - XI^th legislature]

- MEC - Committee information task forces- information reports
[XIII^th legislature - XII^th legislature - XI^th legislature]

- reports on the application of the law
[XIII^th legislature - XII^th legislature ]

- meeting reports [XIII^th legislature - XII^th leg. - XI^th leg.]

• Acts Committee
  (composition, reports and meeting reports) :

- Chairmen of the committee under the V^th Republic

- composition [XIII^th legislature - XII^th leg. - XI^th leg.]

- legislative reports
[XIII^th legislature - XII^th legislature - XI^th legislature]

- Committee information task forces

- information reports
[XIII^th legislature - XII^th legislature - XI^th legislature]

- reports on the application of the law
[XIII^th legislature - XII^th legislature ]

- meeting reports [XIII^th legislature - XII^th leg. - XI^th leg.]

Extended committees

• Finance settlement bill 2007 : timetable - meeting reports
• Finance bill 2008 : verbatim reports - summary records

Special committees

• Special committee asked to examine the bill on the social dialogue and the continuity of the public utility in travelers' regular ground transports
• List of texts examined by a special committee since 1958

Joint committees

• Access to joint committees

Committees of inquiry

• Access to committees of inquiry

Information joint task forces

• Information joint task forces

Reports of standing committee meetings

• Cultural, family and social affairs
• Economic affairs
• Foreign affairs
• National defence and armed forces
• Finance
• Acts

Work programme of the next weeks

• Agenda of committees

Broadcasts

• Live broadcast of committee meetings or fast-finding mission meetings open to the press
• Recorded broadcast of committee meetings or fast-finding mission meetings open to the press

Grenelle : national consultation on the environment

• The National Assembly and Grenelle

Issues of the government's responsibility

• Making a matter an issue of the government's responsibility and motions of censure
• Government statements

Questions

• Digital tables of questions for written answer and questions for oral answer
• Recorded broadcast of sittings of questions to the government

Committees of inquiry and information task forces

• Committees of inquiry [recorded broadcast]
• Chairmen's Conference information task forces
• Committee information task forces :
  - Cultural, family and social affairs
  - Economic affairs
  - Foreign affairs
  - National defence and armed forces
  - Finance
  - Acts
  - Information joint task forces
• Assessment task forces on Acts
  - Rights of patients and end of life

Assessment and scrutiny task forces

• Assessment and scrutiny task forces (MEC)
• Assessment and scrutiny task force on Social Security Finance Acts (MECSS)

Delegations and offices

• Table of delegations and offices

Delegations

Delegation for the European Union

• Agenda
• European Union section

Delegation for Women's Rights

• Agenda
• Delegation meeting reports
• Delegation information reports
• Symposia organised by the delegation

La délégation à l'aménagement et au développement durable du territoire

• Agenda
• Comptes rendus des réunions de la délégation
• Rapports d'information de la délégation
• Dossier d'information : Le développement durable

Delegation for Spatial Planning and Sustainable Territorial Development

• Agenda
• Delegation meeting reports
• Delegation information reports
• Topic : Sustainable development

Parliamentary Delegation for Intelligence

• Composition

Assessment Offices

Office for Science and Technology Assessment

• Presentation and work
• Presentation
• Composition
• Agenda
• Studies in preparation
• Chronological list of reports

Office for Legislation Assessment

• Composition
• Bureau
• Agenda
• Reports of office meetings

Office for the Assessment of Health Policies

• Composition
• Bureau
• Agenda
• Reports of office meetings
• Office reports

Agenda of committees, delegations and parliamentary offices

Finance acts

• Finance Acts since 1998
• Legislative dossier on the institutional Act of 1 August 2001 on Budget Acts (LOLF)
• Legislative dossier on the institutional Act of 12 July 2005 amending the LOLF
• Report on the implementation of the LOLF (March 2005)
• Assessment and scrutiny task force (MEC)

Social security finance Acts

• Social Security Finance Acts since 1998
• Assessment and scrutiny task force on Social Security Finance Acts (MECSS)

Lists of all documents

• Legislative dossiers : general index of work
• Chronological list of documents (list of deposits)
• Latest publications on the site
• Bulletin of petitions

Legislative procedure

• Government bills tabled at the National Assembly
• Government bills authorising the ratification of treaties or international agreements
• Members' bills tabled at the National Assembly
• Legislative reports
• Adopted texts
• Acts submitted to the Constitutional Council
• Promulgated Acts
• Compilation of Acts
• Ordinances
• Reports on the implementation of Acts

Rules of Procedure of the National Assembly

• Motions for resolutions amending the Rules of Procedure
• Rules of Procedure of the National Assembly

Scrutiny, assessment, information

Statements

• Government statements

Committees of inquiry

• Motions for resolutions to create a committee of inquiry and reports on these proposals
• Committee of inquiry reports

Standing or special committees

• Committee information reports

Delegations and offices

• Information reports by the Delegation for Women's Rights
• Information reports by the Delegation for Spatial Planning and Sustainable Territorial Development
• Reports by the Office for Science and Technology Assessment chronological index subject index
• Reports by the Office for the Assessment of Health Policies

Monitoring of European law

• Motions for resolutions on European instruments (Rule 151-1 and 151-4 of the Rules of Procedure)
• Motions for resolutions tabled by the Delegation for the European Union
• Information reports by the Delegation for the European Union

Delegation for the European Union

• Presentation : Pdf file - English translation
• Composition
• Texts in force and applicable procedures
• Meeting reports
• Information reports

Consideration of European texts

• Reports on the consideration of European texts
• Motions for resolutions tabled by the Delegation for the European Union
• Motions for resolutions tabled by deputies
• Resolutions
• Pending European texts

Documentation

• Comparative legislation and statistics in Europe
• Current events data sheets
• Selection of European documents

Archives of delegation work

• XII^th legislature
• XI^th legislature
• Symposia (XI^th legislature)
• Thematic dossiers (XI^th legislature)

French Presidency of the European Union

The Lettre européenne newsletter

Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly

Franco-German relations

General international activity of the Assembly

• International parliamentary relations
• The Assembly's international agenda
• The Bureau's international activity
• Receptions in the hemicycle of foreign Heads of State or Government
• Interviews of the President of the National Assembly with foreign personalities
• Meetings of parliamentary assembly speakers
• Centenary of the Entente Cordiale
• Franco-german relations

Parliamentary cooperation

General presentation

Programmes

• United Nations
• Western Europe
• Central and Baltic Europe
• Russia and Eastern Europe
• Africa
• Near and Middle East
• North America
• Latin America
• Asia and Oceania

The French group at the international Inter-Parliamentary Union

• Presentation
• France at the IPU
• Latest activities
• IPU website

Friendship groups

• Contents
• Search by alphabetic order
• Search by geographic areas
• Search by maps
• General presentation
• Information reports
• Recent activities
• Next meetings

Election observer missions

International parliamentary assemblies and committees

International parliamentary assemblies

• Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly
• Western European Union Assembly
• OSCE Parliamentary Assembly
• NATO Parliamentary Assembly
• Black Sea Economic Cooperation Parliamentary Assembly
   

International Parliamentary Committees

• France-Russia Grand Inter-Parliamentary Committee
• France-Canada Inter-Parliamentary Association
• France-Québec Interparliamentary Committee

Deputies

• Deputies of the XII^th legislature
  (access to the whole section in French)
• Modifications to the composition of the Assembly (since June 2002)

• Allocation of seats in the hemicycle

Deputies of the XII^th legislature
(the whole section in English)

577 deputies

Search for a deputy by his name

• Alphabetic list with the political group and département of election
• Alphabetic list with the political group, committee and date of birth
• List of deputies elected under the XII^th legislature whose mandate was over during that legislature
• Modifications to the composition of the Assembly since June 2002

Search for a deputy by his election constituency

• Search for a constituency on the map of France
• Search for a constituency by département, canton or commune
• List of deputies per region
• List of deputies per département

Search for a deputy using other criteria (age, sex, socioprofessional category, holding of a local mandate...)

Search for a deputy by his seat in the hemicycle (allocation of seats)

Deputies members of extra-parliamentary bodies

• Assembly representatives in extra-parliamentary bodies
• List of deputies members of an extra-parliamentary body
• Group breakdown of deputies members of an extra-parliamentary body

Deputies members of a task force

• Lists of deputies members of a task force under the XII^th legislature

Assembly bodies

The Bureau and the Chairmen's Conference

• Composition of the Bureau
• Composition of Bureau delegations
• Composition of the Chairmen's Conference
• Bureau meeting reports

Political groups

• Composition of political groups
• Political statements by groups
• Allocation of seats in the hemicycle
• Meetings of groups

Committees, delegations and offices

• Composition of committees
• Composition of committees per political group
• Composition of delegations and offices

Study groups or friendship groups

• Composition of study groups
• Composition of friendship groups and of international study groups :
  access by alphabetic order - access by geographic areas - access by maps

Judicial bodies

• Composition of the High Court of Justice
• Composition of the Court of Justice of the Republic

Sitting work

Debates

• Verbatim report and summary record of the debates (archives)
• Recorded broadcast of questions to the government sittings
• Schedule of sittings devoted to deputies'business and of questions for oral answer without debates
• List of Members' bills tabled at the National Assembly
• Debates set down during sittings devoted to deputies' business

Public ballots of the 12^th legislature

• Chronological tables
• List of solemn public votes

Acts and resolutions

• Adopted texts
• Acts submitted or referred to the Constitutional Coucil
• Promulgated Acts
• Compilation of adopted Acts and resolutions

Statistics and archives

• Overview of work
• Parliamentary activity statistics
• Order of business (since january 2005)

Committee work

The standing committees
(composition, reports and meeting reports)

• Cultural, family and social affairs
• Economic affairs
• Foreign affairs
• National defence and armed forces
• Finance
• Acts

The extended committees

• Finance bill 2006
• Finance bill 2007

The special committees
(composition, reports and meeting reports)

• Special committees

The inquiry committees

• Inquiry committees

Reports of standing committee meetings

• Cultural, family and social affairs
• Economic affairs
• Foreign affairs
• National defence and armed forces
• Finance
• Acts

Reports of special committee meetings

• Economic initiative
• Health insurance
• Modification of the institutional Act No. 2001-692 of 1 August 2001 on Budget Acts
• Rights of patients and end of life

Committee bulletins

• Bulletins since June 2002

Audiovisual broadcasts

• Broadcast of committee meetings or fast-finding mission meetings open to the press
  (list of broadcasted programs)

Delegation for the European Union

• Work of the Delegation for the European Union

Friendship groups

• Information reports of friendship groups
• Activities of friendship groups

Legislative documents

Lists of all documents

• Detailed search
• Legislative dossiers : general index of work
• List of deposits
• Chronology of online published documents:
  2002-2005 2006-2007
• Compilation of Acts and adopted resolutions

Lists by nature of document

• Members' bills
• Government bills
• Legislative reports
• Promulgated Acts
• Treaties and international agreements
• Adopted texts
• Acts submitted to the Constitutional Council
• Ordinances
• Pending bills at the National Assembly at the end of the XII^th legislature

Scrutiny, assessment, information

Issues of the government's responsibility

• Government statements
• Making a matter an issue of the government's responsibility, motions of censure

Sittings of questions to the government

• Recorded brooadcast of sittings of questions to the government

Inquiry committees

• Work of inquiry committees
• Motions for resolutions to create a committee of inquiry
• Inquiry reports

Budget and social security

• Finance Acts
• Social security Finance Acts

Information reports

• Committee information reports
• Information reports of Chairmen's Conference information task forces
• Reports on the implementation of Acts
• Report by the Information task force on the Franco-German Office for Youth

The Delegations and the Offices

• Delegation for the European Union
• Delegation for Women's rights
• Delegation for spatial Planning
• Parliamentary Office for evaluation of scientific and technological options
• Office for Legislative Assessment
• Office for the Assessment of Health Policies

Reports by the Delegations and Offices

• Information reports by the Delegation for Women's rights
• Information reports of the Delegation for spatial Planning
• Reports by the Parliamentary Office for evaluation of scientific and technological options
• Reports by the Office for Legislative Assessment
• Reports by the Office for the Assessment of Health Policies

Reports of delegation meetings

• Delegation for Women's rights
• Delegation for spatial and sustainable Planning
• Delegation for the European Union
• Office for evaluation of scientific and technological options
• Office for Legislative Assessment
• Office for the Assessment of Health Policies

Assessment and scrutiny task force (MEC)
Assessment and scrutiny task force on Social Security Finance Acts (MECSS)
Committee information task forces

Deputies

• Deputies of the XI^th legislature
  (access to the whole section in French)

Deputies of the XI^th legislature
(the whole section in English)

577 deputies

Search for a deputy by his name

• Alphabetic list with the political group and département of election
• Alphabetic list with the political group, committee and date of birth
• List of deputies elected under the XI^th legislature whose mandate was over under that legislature
• Modifications to the composition of the Assembly since June 1997

Search for a deputy by his election constituency

• Search for a constituency on the map of France
• Search for a constituency by département, canton or commune
• List of deputies per region
• List of deputies per département

Search for a deputy using other criteria (age, sex, socioprofessional category, holding of a local mandate...)

Deputies members of extra-parliamentary bodies

• Assembly representatives in extra-parliamentary bodies
• Group breakdown of deputies members of an extra-parliamentary body

Deputies members of a task force

• Lists of deputies members of a task force under the XI^th legislature

Assembly bodies

The Bureau and the Chairmen's Conference

• Composition of the Bureau
• Composition of Bureau delegations
• Composition of the Chairmen's Conference

Political groups

• Composition of political groups
• Political statements by groups : Socialiste, RPR, UDF, Démocratie Libérale et Indépendants, Communiste, Radical, Citoyen et Vert
• Allocation of seats in the hemicycle

Committees, delegations and offices

• Composition of committees
• Composition of committees per political group
• Composition of delegations and offices

Study groups or friendship groups

• List of study group chairmen
• Composition of friendship groups and of international study groups

Judicial bodies

• Composition of the High Court of Justice
• Composition of the Court of Justice of the Republic

Sitting work

Debates

• Verbatim report and summary record of the debates (archives)
• List of Members' bills tabled at the National Assembly

Public ballots

• Chronological tables and results of all public ballots : 2002 - 2001 - 2000 - 1999 - 1998 - 1997
• List of solemn public votes

Acts et resolutions

• Adopted texts
• Acts submitted or referred to the Constitutional Coucil
• Promulgated Acts
• Compilation of adopted Acts and resolutions

Statistics and archives

• Parliamentary activity statistics

Committee work

The standing committees
(composition, reports and meeting reports)

• Cultural, family and social affairs
• Economic affairs
• Foreign affairs
• National defence and armed forces
• Finance
• Acts

The special committees
(composition, reports and meeting reports)

• Special committees

Reports of standing committee meetings

• Cultural, family and social affairs
• Economic affairs
• Foreign affairs
• National defence and armed forces
• Finance
• Acts

Reports of special committee meetings

• Fight against exclusions
• Institutional bill on Budget Acts
• Bioethics

Parliamentary documents

Lists of all documents

• Detailed search
• Legislative dossiers : general index of work
• List of deposits
• General table of debates and parliamentary works (2001-2002 ) : Analytic table  - Nominative table
• Compilation of Acts and adopted resolutions

Lists by nature of document

• Members' bills
• Government bills
• Legislative reports
• Chronological list of promulgated Acts during the legislature
• Promulgated Acts during the sessions : 1997/1998 - 1998/1999 - 1999/2000 - 2000/2001 - 2001/2002
• Treaties and international agreements : promulgated Acts
• Adopted texts
• Acts submitted to the Constitutional Council
• Ordinances
• Pending bills at the National Assembly at the end of the XI^th legislature

Scrutiny, assessment, information

Issues of the government's responsibility

• Government statements
• Making a matter an issue of the government's responsibility, motions of censure

Committees of inquiry

• Motions for resolutions to create a committee of inquiry
• Inquiry reports

The Delegations and the Offices

• Delegation for the European Union
• Delegation for Women's rights
• Delegation for spatial Planning
• Parliamentary Office for evaluation of scientific and technological options
• Office for Legislative Assessment

Information reports

• Committee information reports
• Information reports by the Delegation for Women's rights
• Information reports of the Delegation for spatial Planning
• Information reports of friendship groups

Reports by the Offices

• Reports by the Parliamentary Office for evaluation of scientific and technological options
• Reports by the Office for Legislative Assessment
• Reports by the Office for the Assessment of Public Policies

Assessment and scrutiny task force (MEC)

Delegation for the European Union

• Work of the Delegation for the European Union

Friendship groups

• Information reports of friendship groups
• Activities of friendship groups

Reports of the debates and meetings

• Report of the debates
• Verbatim report : sessions 1998-1999, 1999-2000, 2000-2001, 2001-2002
• Summary record of the debates : sessions 1998-1999, 1999-2000, 2000-2001, 2001-2002
• Reports of committee meetings : Cultural affairs - Foreign affairs - Defence - Finance - Acts - Production - Bioethics
• Reports of delegation meetings : Spatial Planning - Women' rights - European Union
• Activities of friendship groups

Presidency

• Speeches by the President

Assembly activity

• Parliamentary activity statistics of the XI^th legislature
• Activity report :  2002 - 2001 - 2000 - 1999 - 1998
• Accounts report : 2002 - 2001 - 2000 - 1999 - 1998 - 1997
• Report of  the joint appropriation committee on the budget of the assemblies ('jaune budgétaire' - budgetary annex) : 2002 - 2001 - 2000

Events

• Events from 1997 to 2002

Archives of the XI^th legislature

• Access to the section

• Press and Audiovisual Division
• Press division communiqués
• Assembly agenda
• Association of parliamentary journalists
• The meetings of the parliamentary press
  (video of the press conferences)

Présidence de M. Bernard Accoyer
(from June 26th, 2007)

• Mr Bernard Accoyer's biography [French] [English] - Notice
• Poll for the President's election (26 June 2007) - Photo spread - Video
• Verbatim report (26 June 2007)
• President's Cabinet
• Agenda
• M. Bernard Accoyer's speeches - Video
• Interviews by the President with foreign personalities

The President

• Annual reports handed to the President
• Personalities appointed by the President
• The role of the President of the National Assembly
• Presidents of the National Assembly

577 deputies

Search for a deputy by his name

• Alphabetic list with the political group and département of election
• Multicriteria search
• List of deputies elected under the XIII^th legislature whose mandate is over
• Modifications to the composition of the Assembly since June 2007

Search for a deputy by his election constituency

• Search for a constituency on the map of France
• Search for a constituency by département, canton or commune
• List of deputies per region
• List of deputies per département

Distribution of deputies by

• age
• sex
• socioprofessional category
• socioprofessional family

Search of a deputy using other criteria (holding of a local mandat... )

Search for a deputy by his seat in the hemicycle (allocation of seats)

Meetings convened on the initiative of deputies

List of deputies' personal websites

Extra-parliamentary bodies

• Deputies members of extra-parliamentary bodies

Deputies members of a task force

• Lists of deputies currently members of a task force
• Delivered reports by deputies members of a task force under the XIII^th legislature

13 legislatures

Assembly bodies

The Bureau and the Chairmen's Conference

• Composition of the Bureau
• Composition of Bureau delegations
• Composition of the Chairmen's Conference
• Bureau meeting reports

 Political groups

• Composition of political groups
• Political statements by groups
• Allocation of seats in the hemicycle
• Meetings of groups

Committees, delegations and offices

• Composition of committees
• Composition of committees per political group
• Composition of delegations and offices

Study groups or friendship groups

• Composition of study groups
• Composition of friendship groups and of international study groups
• Meetings of study groups and of friendship groups

Judicial bodies

• Composition of the Court of Justice of the Republic

Fundamental texts

• Constitution
• Rules of Procedure of the National Assembly
• Bureau Regulations (IGB)
• Index to the Rules of Procedure and to the Bureau Regulations
• Rules of Procedure of the Congress
• Ordinance on the functioning of the parliamentary assemblies
• Institutional Act on Budget Acts
• Compilation of texts concerning the public authorities

General documentation

• Brief parliamentary lexicon
• 'Welcome to the Assembly' brochure
• The House of every citizen (video) [Video in English]
• Digital encyclopedia of the National Assembly
• 'Knowledge of the Assembly' collection
• Knowledge of the Assembly no 1: The National Assembly, organization and operation
• The National Assembly in the French institutions (synthesis)

Thematic documentation

The public sitting

• Knowing the Assembly : The commencement of the legislature - The President of the National Assembly
• Sessions and sittings
• Knowledge of the Assembly : The public sitting
• Who does what in the hemicycle?
• Ballots and voting procedures
• Animated presentation of the verbatim report of debates

Committees

• Committees and delegations
• Knowledge of the Assembly no 12 : Committees at the National Assembly

Elaboration of legislation

• Legislative procedure
• Amendment of the Constitution and the Congress
• Ratification of treaties
• Parliament and statutes
• The National Assembly, the Senate and the Congress
• Knowledge of the Assembly no 5 : Main steps of the legislative procedure

Scrutiny over government expenditure

• Passing the budget
• Financial scrutiny
• Budget Acts
• Knowing the Assembly : Finance Acts and Social Security Finance Acts
• Budget reform : presentation
• Budget reform : glossary (source : MINEFI)
• Assessment and scrutiny task force on Social Security Finance Acts (MECSS)

Scrutiny, information and assessment

• Issues of the governement's responsability
• Statistics on the use of Article 49 of the Constitution under the V^th Republic: art. 49, para 1^er - art. 49, para 2 - para 49, al. 3
• Questions
• Knowledge of the Assembly no 4 : Questions at the National Assembly
• Committees of inquiry
• List of committees of inquiry created under the V^th Republic
• Information task forces created by the Chairmen's Conference
• Informative role of committees
• Scrutiny of the implementation of Acts
• Right of petition
• Delegation for the European Union
• Delegation for Women's Rights
• Delegation for Spatial Planing and Sustainable Territorial Development
• Parliamentary Office for Science and Technology Assessment (OPECST)
• Parliamentary Office for the Assessment of Health Policies
• Parliamentary Office for Legislation Assessment

International and European activities

• Resolutions of European Union instruments
• Knowledge of the Assembly no 9 : The Assembly and the European Union
• Knowledge of the Assembly no 11 : The Assembly and international relations

Assembly bodies

• The President
• Bureau
• Chairmen's Conference
• Quaestors
• Groups and group chairmen
• Authorization for and operation of study groups

Election of deputies

• Reference texts
• Election of deputies
• Knowledge of the Assembly no 8 : Election of deputies
• Legislative elections of June 2007 [in French] - [in English]
• Legislative elections of June 2002 [in French] - [in English]
• Legislative by-elections : during the XIII^th legislature - during the XII^th legislature - during the XI^th legislature
• Previous elections

The deputy's service rules

• Knowledge of the Assembly no 7 : The deputy's service rules
• The deputy
• The deputy's allowance and material situation
• Incompatibilities
• Immunity
• Group secretariats and the staff of deputies

French institutional system

• Elections in France
• French political institutions

Departments

• Staff regulations
• Organization chart of departments

Other institutions

• Senate
• Président of the Republic
• Government
• Constitutional Council
• High Court
• Court of Justice of the Republic
• Mediator of the Republic
• Audit Court
• Economic and social Council
• Links to institutional sites

Foreign parliaments

• House of Commons
• Bundestag
• United States Congress
• European Parliament 
• Member states of the European Union and their Parliament (Links to the websites)
• Links to the websites of world parliaments

Assembly activity

• Duration of the common and extraordinary sessions under the V^th Republic
• Activity report: 2007 - 2006 - 2005 - 2004 - 2003 - 2002
• Overall assesssment of the session: 2004/2005 -  2003/2004 - 2002/2003
• Parliamentary activity statistics: XII^th legislature
• Accounts report : 2004 - 2003
• Report of the joint appropriations committee on the budget of the assemblies ("jaune budgétaire" - budgetary annex) : 2006 - 2005 - 2004 - 2003
•  The budget allocation for the National Assembly (in allocation for the authorities mission) : 2008 (website Forum de la performance, Ministry of the Economy, Finance and Employment) - 2007 (website Forum de la performance, Ministry of the Economy, Finance and Employment)
   

History

The Assembly

• History of the National Assembly since 1789
• Brief history of the National Assembly
• Political regimes, constitutions and legislatures since 1789
• National Assembly (1871-1876)
• The legislatures of the III^th Republic
• French Committee of National Liberation
• Temporary government of the French Republic - First and second constituent Assembly
• The legislatures of the IV^th Republic
• The legislatures of the V^th Republic
• Presidents of the National Assembly
• Digital encyclopedia : Two centuries of National Assembly history
• National Assembly sessions under the V^th Republic

Deputies

• Biographies and portraits of the deputies of 1789
• Historic data base : French deputies since 1789
• Dictionary of French parliamentarians from 1789 to 1940 (biographies)
• List of deputies having held a mayoral mandat since 1849
• Biographies and portraits of women deputies since 1945
• Biographies and portraits of deputies of the V^th Republic
• The protesting deputies of Alsace-Lorraine
• Scenes and players of parliamentary life
• Major moments of parliamentary eloquence
• Speeches by the oldest members

Major debates

• Abolition of slavery (1794 and 1848)
• Adoption of the Wallon amendment
  (30 January 1875)
• Compulsory primary education (Act of 28 March 1882)
• Act establishing the principle of freedom of association (Act of 1 July 1901)
• Separation of Church and State (Act of 9 December 1905)
• Rehabilitation of Alfred Dreyfus (1906)
• The free disposal of wages of married women (1907)
• 1908 : Zola at the Pantheon
• Rejection of the European Defence Community (August 1954)
• Authorization of ratification of treaties of Rome (July 1957)
• Relations between the State and private education establishments (Act No. 59-1557 of 31 December 1959)
• 1967 : The pill becomes legal
  (Act No. 67-1176 of 28 December 1967)
• May 68 and its immediate legislative consequences
• Length of the mandate of the President of the Republic (constitutional bill amending Art. 6 of the Constitution, October 1973)
• Voluntary termination of pregnancy (Act No. 75-17 of 17 January 1975)
• Orientation act in favour of the disabled (Act No. 75-534 of 30 June 1975)
• Data processing and civil liberties
  (Act No. 78-17 of 6 January 1978)
• Abolition of the death penalty (Act No. 81-908 of 9 October 1981)
• Major dates in the political citizenship of women
• André Malraux and the Parliament
• Léopold Sédar Senghor (1906-2001)
• Pierre Mendès France (1907-1982)
• Michel Debré (1912-1996)
• L'abbé Pierre
• Aimé Césaire

General history

• Ordinance of Villers-Cotterêts (August 1539)
• La Marseillaise, national anthem
• 11 november 1918

History of institutions

• Former French constitutions
• Presidents of the Republic, Prime Ministers and legislatures since 1958
• Political regimes, constitutions and legislatures since 1789
• Historic data base : Governments and Presidents of the parliamentary assemblies since 1789
• "Knowledge of the Assembly" Collection : Governments and parliamentary assemblies (1958 - 2004)
• Digital encyclopedia : Origins of democracy - Birth of parliaments - Democracy today
• The Republic and universal suffrage
• History of decentralisation
• Creation of the overseas departments

Heritage

Palais Bourbon and Hôtel de Lassay

• A palace for democracy
• History of the Palais Bourbon
• From the acquisition of the Palais Bourbon to the reconstruction of the hemicycle
• Knowledge of the Assembly no 10 : The Palais Bourbon from past to present times
• The floods in the Palais Bourbon in January 1910
• 25 August 1944 : The Chamber of Deputies after the fighting
• The Hôtel de Lassay from the Regency to our days
• Place du Palais Bourbon
• Visiting the Palais Bourbon and Hôtel de Lassay
• Virtual visit of the Palais Bourbon and Hôtel de Lassay
• Electronic guide round the Palais Bourbon
• Evolution of the architecture of the Palais Bourbon - Plans and images of the National Assembly
• Paintings by Delacroix in salon du Roi

The library

• The library and its history
• Operation
• The library and its masterpieces (old collection)
• Facsimile of La Marseillaise
• Paintings by Delacroix
• Busts by Daumier
• Busts of Marianne

Archives and historic research

• Historic minutes
• Documents available for consultation at the Archives department
• Parliamentary history prize or law thesis prize
• Research grant
• Opening times of the reading room at the Archives department

• How do you reach the Palais  Bourbon ?
• How can you attend a sitting ?
• How can you visit the Palais Bourbon and Hôtel de Lassay ?
• Directory of National Assembly departments
• Adresses and contacts

The Children's Parliament

• General presentation of the Children's Parliament
• XIII^th Children's Parliament (10 June 2006)
• Previous sessions : 2005 - 2004 - 2003 - 2002 - 2001 - 2000 - 1999 - 1998 
• World Children's Parliament (October 1999)

Literature for juniors

• The National Assembly explained to youths
• From bill to implemented Act
• Legislative procedure chart
• Educational website by the National Assembly and the Ministry of National Education
• List of thematic links

National Assembly departments

• Staff regulations
• The dictory and organisation chart of departments
• The National Assembly : organization and operation

Competitive examinations at the National Assembly

• General rules applying to