I. – With effect from 2012, a national fund for the equalisation of inter-communal and communal resources is created for communes and public establishments for inter-communal cooperation with their own tax status.
II. – 1. The resources of this national equalisation fund in 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015 are set at 150, 360, 570 and 780 million euros respectively. In 2016 and 2017, the fund’s resources are set at €1 billion. From 2018, the fund’s resources are set at €1 billion.
2. The tax resources referred to in 1 correspond, for municipalities, to those referred to in 1° of a of Article L. 2331-3 and, for public intercommunal cooperation establishments with their own tax system, to those defined in the first paragraph of 1° of Article L. 5214-23 with regard to communities of communes, to 1° of Article L. 5215-32 with regard to urban communities and metropolises and to the first paragraph of 1° of Article L. 5216-8 with regard to agglomeration communities.
The resources used are the gross resources for the last year for which the results are known.
III. – For the implementation of this national equalisation fund, an inter-municipal grouping is made up of a public establishment for inter-municipal cooperation with its own tax status and its member municipalities on 1st January of the year of distribution of the resources of the said fund.