Dear colleagues

Thanks again for your patience during the open review process, which in my understanding is a very important step towards better review made by the journal.
As you have seen, we received two reviews and another interactive comment by a group of authors centred on Ms. Coughlan de Perez. All three comments addressed a couple of similar issues, and some individual ones. So I kindly ask you to proceed with a revision of your work, starting with (1) a better clarification (for international readers) what the analysed French system is about. Moreover, as suggested by the peers, (2) it would be good to shorten the material a bit so that the structure will become more clear. As a third point, and this has already been answered by your author’s response, several issues can be improved so that the entire work becomes more accessible.
So I kindly invite you to undertake the necessary steps, and to also include the comments of the third “interactive comment” into consideration (this is a very nice and concise comment which clearly states the potential for improvements). Please submit also an answer to the referees when resubmitting your manuscript. I wish you good success with your work.

Kind regards,

Sven Fuchs (Editor NHESS)

Dear authors,

my sincere apologies for this delay in handling your manuscript, unfortunately, the second referee did miss his or her deadlines a couple of times. This is why I proceed now with a decision based on only one referee comment (who also was involved in the first round). Based on my own opinion on your revised manuscript and given the comments of referee #1 on this second manuscript version, I kindly would like to inform you that the work can be accepted given the technical corrections suggested by referee #1 (ie a table with all the abbreviations used). Please be aware that neither the referees nor the Editor will cross-check these corrections, the manuscript will directly go into production once you uploaded the corrected version.


Kind regards,

Sven Fuchs (Editor NHESS)