Provision
Chair elected by the committee · 9 members
Executes the guarantees of Title IV: food, water, sanitation, housing, energy, care, transport and communication. Directs the administration of provision in every territory.
The Executive Council
The Republic has no ministers. The laws and the plan are executed by committees of Assembly members, who keep their seats and their votes in the Assembly.
Article 153(1): the executive committees execute the laws and the plan, direct the administration in their fields, prepare the bills of their fields, conduct the external relations of the Republic under Title XI, direct civil protection, and exercise the civilian direction of the forces under Title X.
Article 152(1): membership of an executive committee is reserved to members of the Assembly and is held for the term of the Assembly.
The eight committees
Ecological Order
Chair elected by the committee · 7 members
Executes the law within the ecological budgets. It determines no budget and fixes no ceiling, both of which lie beyond an executive committee.
Justice and the Interior
Chair elected by the committee · 7 members
Executes the law on public order and represents the Republic before the courts. In no case does it instruct the prosecution service.
External Relations
Chair elected by the committee · 7 members
Represents the Republic before other states and international bodies, and prepares treaties for ratification by the Assembly under Title XI.
Public Works and Transport
Chair elected by the committee · 9 members
Executes the construction and maintenance programmes of the plan, and directs the administration of the transport network.
Labour and Cooperation
Chair elected by the committee · 7 members
Executes the law on hours, arduous tasks, rotation and the formation of cooperatives.
Education and Knowledge
Chair elected by the committee · 7 members
Executes the law on education, research and the knowledge commons.
Civil Protection and Defence
Chair elected by the committee · 7 members
Directs civil protection and exercises the civilian direction of the forces under Title X.
Each committee with its field and its composition
Limits of competence
Article 154(1): an executive committee may in no case adopt the plan, allocate resources, fix a ceiling, alter an ecological budget, or exercise a power that Title II or Title IV confers on another organ.
Article 154(2): a committee may in no case legislate in a matter reserved to organic law, restrict a right of Title III by regulation, or amend an act of the Assembly.
Article 154(3): a regulation exceeding the law it executes is void, and any person may challenge it under Article 43.
Effect of combining the two functions
The union of legislative and executive functions in the Assembly enlarges the powers of neither, and the Constitutional Court makes the determination whether an act of the Assembly or of a committee has exceeded them.
A committee therefore has no power the Assembly itself lacks, and the Assembly gains none by executing through committees of its own members.
Voting on its own account
Article 152(2): members of executive committees retain their seat and their vote in plenary sitting, and cast no vote upon a motion under Article 150(1) or (3) concerning their own committee, nor upon the annual account of the field they execute.