Glossary
ICPE: identifying internal and external players

Local authority

As legal entities governed by public law, distinct from the State, they enjoy legal and asset autonomy, and are divided into communes, départements and regions.

Legal entity

A group with a legal personality that gives it rights and obligations (e.g. a trading company).

Individuals

A person taken as a subject of law, as opposed to a legal entity.

Administrative Police

Unlike the judicial police, whose aim is repression, the administrative police aim is prevention, with a view to maintaining public order; the ICPE police are special administrative police.

Rules and regulations

Texts adopted by representatives of the executive power (minister, prefect,...