title: Decree No. 85-766, 23 May 1985.
abstract: This Decree creates a High Council for the Family and Population and regional councils.  The High Council is to examine the general orientation of the policy to promote the family, family planning, and population and is to determine the large outline of programs and plans of action of the National Office of the Family and Population.  Similarly, the High Council is to examine objectives set by development plans with respect to the above and the means necessary to carry them out.  In addition, the High Council is authorized a) to make proposals with respect to anything relating to family policy and population questions; and b) to request the preparation of studies and reports that will help it accomplish its mission, in particular, in areas concerning perspectives of demographic growth in the middle and long term and their effect on the different policies of economic and social development and on the equilibrium and well being of the family. It is also to study all questions submitted to it by a consultative commission for the family and population.  Further provisions of the Decree set forth the composition and procedures of the High Council, as well as those of the regional councils, which are to be consulted on regional programs and plans of action relating to the promotion of the family, family planning, and population. Decree No. 87-713 of 11 May 1987 (Journal Officiel de la Republique Tunisienne, No. 37, 22 May 1987, pp. 692-693) makes modifications of a technical nature to Decree No. 85-766.
mesh_terms: D000349:Africa; D000352:Africa, Northern; D003906:Developing Countries; D004467:Economics; D016656:Family Planning Policy; D006285:Health Planning; D007878:Legislation as Topic; D008877:Middle East; D009934:Organization and Administration; D011640:Public Policy; D012939:Social Planning; D014416:Tunisia
keywords: Africa; Arab Countries; Developing Countries; Development Planning; Economic Factors; Family Planning Policy; Family Policy; French Speaking Africa; Laws And Statutes; Mediterranean Countries; Northern Africa; Organization And Administration; Policy; Population Policy; Program Activities; Programs; Social Policy; Tunisia