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Organic law
A reinforced class of statute that fills in the Constitution's detail, and cannot be amended by an ordinary majority.
The tier
Between the Constitution and ordinary legislation sits organic law. The Constitution reserves certain matters to it: the specification of the minimum core in quantities, the electoral districts, the fields of execution, the pools for the oversight offices, and many more.
What makes it different
Three fifths of the members of the Assembly. An ordinary law needs a majority of votes cast. Compulsory review by the Constitutional Chamber before promulgation, in every case without exception. And it cannot be amended by an ordinary law or by an act of an executive committee.
Its limit
An organic law may develop the Constitution and may add nothing to it. Where this text says a matter is fixed by organic law, that is a delegation of detail, never of principle.