stylistic:style_transfer, structural:reformatting, quality:corruption
French law has a dual jurisdictional system comprising private law, also known as judicial law, and public law. Judicial law includes, in particular:
  - Civil law 
  - Criminal law Public law includes, in particular:
  - Administrative law
  - Constitutional law Together, in practical terms, these four areas of law constitute the major part of French law. The announcement in November 2005 by the European Commission that, on the basis of powers recognised in a recent European Court of Justice ("ECJ") ruling, it intends to create a dozen or so European Union ("EU") criminal offences suggests that one should also now consider EU law as a new and distinct area of law in France, and not simply a group of rules which influence the content of France's civil, criminal, administrative and constitutional law.