translate English to French: The most important changes included: annulment or liquidation, consolidation, implementation of new rules inciting efficiency of work, as well as the reduction of the costs of functioning of the administration; this resulted in a decrease of the number of offices of central government administration, and in the introduction of a more rational arrangement of competencies and responsibilities in central government and in the whole government administration.
Ils ont eu pour effet de réduire le nombre de bureaux de l'administration centrale et d'apporter une répartition plus rationnelle des compétences et des responsabilités au sein de l'administration centrale et de l'ensemble de l'administration publique.