Local and regional authorities shall exercise their own powers in compliance with the constraints imposed by national defence.
In this respect, the division of powers provided for by law shall not prevent the State authorities from taking, with regard to local and regional authorities, their public establishments and their groupings, the measures necessary for the exercise of their defence powers, as they result in particular from the Defence Code.
In this respect, the State has access, as required, to the services of the communes, départements, regions, their groupings and their public establishments.
If the State representative considers that an act taken by the communal, departmental and regional authorities, whether or not subject to the obligation of transmission, is likely to seriously compromise the operation or integrity of an installation or work of interest to defence, he may request its annulment by the administrative court on this ground alone.
The representative of the State in the département or region refers the act in question, within two months of its transmission or publication, to the Litigation Division of the Council of State, which has jurisdiction at first and last instance. The President of the Litigation Section of the Council of State, or a Councillor of State delegated for this purpose, will give a ruling within forty-eight hours.
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