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Jacques MÉZARD

Born 3 December 1947, in Aurillac (Cantal department)

Education

Graduate degree in private law (Université Paris II Panthéon-Assas)
French professional lawyer's certification (Certificat d'Aptitude à la Profession d'Avocat, CAPA)

1971 / 1976: Lawyer at the Paris Bar
1971 / 1976: Senior lecturer at Paris I
1971 / 1975: Member of the Conseil National de l’Enseignement Supérieur et de la Recherche (National council of higher education and research), and Vice President of Université Paris II
1977 / 2008: Lawyer at the Aurillac Bar, Former President of the Bar, Avocat honoraire (emeritus lawyer) since 2008.

1983 / 1992: Deputy Mayor of Aurillac
1991 / 1995: Vice President of the district of Bassin d’Aurillac
1994 / 2008: General Councillor for the Cantal department
2001 / 2017: President of the Bassin d’Aurillac conurbation (Communauté d’agglomération du Bassin d’Aurillac)

2008 / 2017: Senator for the Cantal department
2011 / 2017: President of the Rassemblement démocratique et social européen (RDSE) group in the Senate
2018 / 2019: Senator for the Cantal department
2009 / 2017: Vice President of the Senate delegation to regional and local authorities and decentralisation

2012: Information Report: “Prendre acte de la décentralisation : pour une rénovation indispensable des contrôles de l’État sur les collectivités territoriales” (Acknowledging decentralisation: for an indispensable renovation of State monitoring of regional and local authorities)
2013: Information Report: “Les collectivités territoriales et les infrastructures de transport” (Regional and local authorities and transportation infrastructure)
2015: Information Report: “Sur les conséquences des baisses de dotation de l’État” (On the consequences of lowering of State endowments)
2017: Information Report: “Les nouvelles technologies au service de la modernisation des territoires” (New technologies serving modernisation of territories)

2013: Inquiry Commission Report: “Les dérives thérapeutiques et le dérives sectaires : la santé en danger” (Therapeutic deviations and sectarianism: dangers in healthcare)
2015: Inquiry Commission Report: “Un État dans l’État : canaliser la prolifération des autorités administratives indépendantes pour mieux les contrôler” (A State within the State: channelling the multiplication of independent administrative authorities to better monitor them)

2009: Rapporteur for the draft law adopted by Parliament for the creation and development of sociétés publiques locales (local public companies)
2013: Rapporteur for the draft law adopted by Parliament relating to security and the fight against terrorism
2014: Rapporteur for the draft law adopted by Parliament aiming to create sociétés d’économie mixte à opération unique (semi-public companies for a single purpose)
2016: Rapporteur for the draft law adopted by Parliament instituting the general statute on independent administrative authorities and independent public authorities, and for the draft institutional act also adopted by Parliament.
2013: Author of the draft law adopted by Parliament modernising the sections de commune (municipal sections) system
2016: Rapporteur for the draft law adopted by Parliament instituting the general statute on independent administrative authorities and independent public authorities, and for the draft institutional act relating to independent administrative authorities and independent public authorities

2019, 11 March (since): Member of the Constitutional Council, appointed by the President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron