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Article 127 Without prejudice to special competences specified by the law, the Council of the State controls the regularity of the acts of the Administration and sees to the application of the law by the jurisdictions of the administrative order. The Council of the State, within the conditions established by an organic law: 1° judges the recourses in annulment of the acts of the central administrative authorities, the recourses of full jurisdiction for the damaging acts caused by the activities of the Administration, and the contentious claims in fiscal matters; 2° takes cognizance, in appeal, of the control of the legality of the acts of the authorities of the Decentralized Territorial Collectivities; 3° decides, in appeal or in cassation, on the decisions rendered by the administrative tribunals or the specialized administrative jurisdictions. It is the judge of certain electoral disputes. It can be consulted by the Prime Minister and by the members of the government to give its opinion on the bills of legislative, or regulatory texts or on the interpretation of a legislative, or regulatory provision. It can proceed, at the demand of the Prime Minister, to studies on the texts of laws, on the organization, on the functioning, and on the missions of the public services.