TITLE IX. OF THE ECONOMICAL AND SOCIAL COUNCIL
Article 123
The Economic and Social Council gives its opinion [avis] on the issues that are brought [renvoyées] to it by the President of the Republic or by the National Assembly.
It is competent to examine the bills or the proposals of law as well as the drafts of [a] decree of economic and social character that are submitted to it, excluding the laws of finance.
It is obligatorily consulted on the bills of plan laws and of program laws of economic character.
It may, on its own initiative and in the form of [a] recommendation, draw [attirer] the attention of the President of the Republic and of the National Assembly to the reforms of economic and social order that appear [paraissent] to it conforming to or contrary to the general interest.
At the demand of the President of the Republic or of the National Assembly, it designates one of its members to present [expose] before the Commissions of the National Assembly the opinion of the Council on the bills or the proposals of law that have been submitted to it.
Article 124
An organic law establishes the composition and the functioning of the Economic and Social Council.
