ABSTRACT
Activist judges have been increasingly inclined fully to implement the law, despite (or sometimes because of) pressure from politicians, the media and pressure groups. Two aspects of this tendency may be highlighted. Firstly, the implementation of new legal norms, whether recent EU directives or national laws and decrees, is more assiduously monitored (though implementation is certainly far from perfect). Thus one section of the Conseil d’État has the task of tracking implementation performance; the results are published in its annual report.
