Last February, Roselyne Bachelot-Narquin, minister of health, of youth, sports and of community life entrusted to Jean-Louis Langlais, general inspector of the honorary administration, a mission of reflexion on relations between the associative world and authorities.

The report was delayed to the minister (04/08/08). He positions stakes at good level by considering first that the associative sector is a leading economic and social actor and an inevitable partner of authorities. The report underlines the interest of an evolution of relations between the State and associations and offers tracks of reflexion on the improvement of the place of associations in civil dialogue, more efficient financial partnership and strengthening of confidence between parts.

Facing the first official report of an ignorance of weight and of role of associations in our country, CPCA can only be very pleased about introductory proposal to update the statistical tools of the State as with the creation of a count satellite of the FRENCH NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STATISTICS AND ECONOMIC STUDIES which could give birth to an observatory of the community life. Indeed, the general inspector highlights the unsatisfactory organisation of the State in associative policy and recalls, rightly, the necessity of an echelon of political decision at the highest level, that is to say of interdepartmental level. As the inspector admits him himself, the report is fundamentally partial on the subjects which he recalls taking into account the report to groups and therefore the effects of decentralisation for no more than twenty years.

Once having put down these stakes and many others (control, Gouvernance, financings etc.), force is to note that the main proposals of the report are problematic, or even unacceptable.

It is so problematic that the State, on the basis of the official report always interesting of the heterogeneity of associations in France, hires a normalisatrice approach of the type of associations law 1901 and offers new statutes or supervision which notably envisages for associations professionalized and hired in the accomplishment of a mission of public service that the State runs them as it would make its own services . It is a question there of hiring a thorough debate on the evolution of the French model of deliverance of utility and of specific role of associations, an independent debate of the regulations by the very State of the usage of associative form for its own actions.

It is not allowable moreover that the report, with regard to the evolution expected from the fall of the public financings, recommends unilateral appeal in the state commission to develop a strategy of appeal to associations . The report calls into question the doctrine which predominated until then to preserve (by updating it) the right of initiative of the association in a logic of offer. How since then to include proposal to reassure the financing of associations by the general implementation of long-term conventions of objectives? The order of the State becomes a bet in competition of associations between them, experimentation and associative innovation passing by loss and benefit. It would be also legitimate to question virtues proclaimed by the state commission and its consequences to the community life and the place of voluntary work especially.

It is not finally allowable to imagine the organisation of a civil dialogue between the community life and the State without putting in the middle of subject the place and the role of organised associative movement, which by CPCA regroups more than 50 % of associations in France. Point of view developed here delays the State in the middle of the organisation of the conditions of civil dialogue across its own tools, the national advice of the community life, the national conference of the community life. If the function of expertise of CNVA is not to call into question just as the necessity to give him true means and prerogatives of expertise, the research of an unquestionable designation of his members (sic) with regard to a function of Parliament of associations reveals the will to reinforce a protecting report in the representation of the society.

The conference of the community life must clarify the position of the government on stakes which hire completely the future of the associative world. The hour of choices came.