Article 34.
Statutes shall determine the rules concerning:
– civic rights and the fundamental guarantees granted to citizens for the exercise of their civil liberties; freedom, diversity and the independence of the media; the obligations imposed for the purposes of national defence upon the person and property of citizens;
– nationality, the status and capacity of persons, matrimonial property systems, inheritance and gifts;
– the determination of serious crimes and other major offences and the penalties they carry; criminal procedure; amnesty; the setting up of new categories of courts and the status of members of the Judiciary;
– the base, rates and methods of collection of all types of taxes; the issuing of currency.
Statutes shall also determine the rules governing:
– the system for electing members of the Houses of Parliament, local assemblies and the representative bodies for French nationals living abroad, as well as the conditions for holding elective offices and positions for the members of the deliberative assemblies of the territorial communities;
– the setting up of categories of public legal entities;
– the fundamental guarantees granted to civil servants and members of the Armed Forces;
– nationalisation of companies and the transfer of ownership of companies from the public to the private sector.
Statutes shall also lay down the basic principles of:
– the general organisation of national defence;
– the self-government of territorial communities, their powers and revenue;
– education;
– the preservation of the environment;
– systems of ownership, property rights and civil and commercial obligations;
– Employment law, Trade Union law and Social Security.
Finance Acts shall determine the revenue and expenditure of the State in the conditions and with the reservations provided for by an Institutional Act.
Social Security Financing Acts shall lay down the general conditions for the financial equilibrium thereof, and taking into account forecasted revenue, shall determine expenditure targets in the conditions and with the reservations provided for by an Institutional Act.
Programming Acts shall determine the objectives of the action of the State.
The multiannual guidelines for public finances shall be established by Programming Acts. They shall contribute to achieving the objective of balanced accounts for public administrations.
The provisions of this article may be further specified and completed by an Institutional Act.