The Regional Council may delegate some of its powers to its standing committee, with the exception of those relating to the vote on the budget, approval of the administrative account and measures of the same nature as those referred to in Article L. 1612-15.
Within the limits it has set, the Regional Council may also delegate to its Chairman the power:
1° To carry out borrowings to finance the investments provided for in the budget, and to carry out financial transactions useful for the management of borrowings, including hedging against interest rate and exchange rate risks, and to pass the necessary acts to this end;
2° To carry out lines of credit on the basis of a maximum amount authorised by the Regional Council;
3° To take the decisions referred to in III of Article L. 1618-2 and in a of Article L. 2221-5-1, subject to the provisions of c of the same article;
4° To determine and modify the allocation of the local authority’s properties used by its public services;
5° To decide on the conclusion and revision of leases of goods for a term not exceeding twelve years;
6° Accepting claims settlements relating to insurance contracts;
7° Creating, modifying or abolishing the accounting departments necessary for the operation of the local authority’s services;
8° Accepting gifts and legacies that are not subject to conditions or charges, without prejudice to the provisions of Article L. 4231-7 which allow it to do so on a precautionary basis, whatever the conditions and charges;
9° To decide on the disposal by mutual agreement of movable property up to €4,600;
10° Without prejudice to the provisions of Article L. 4221-4, to set, within the limits of the estimate of the tax authorities (domains), the amount of the local authority’s offers to be notified to the expropriated parties and to respond to their requests;
11° To take the decisions mentioned in articles L. 523-4 and L. 523-5 of the Heritage Code relating to the carrying out of preventive archaeological diagnoses prescribed for development or works operations on the territory of the region and to conclude the agreement provided for in article L. 523-7 of the same code;
12° To authorise, on behalf of the region, the renewal of membership of associations of which it is a member;
13° To proceed, after receiving the opinion of the regional programming committee, with the allocation and implementation of subsidies related to the management of European funds for which the region is the managing authority or intermediary body or, in the context of the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development, the regional managing authority ;
14° Applying to the State or other local authorities, under the conditions set by the Regional Council, for the award of grants;
15° To proceed, within the limits set by the regional council, with the submission of applications for planning permission relating to the demolition, conversion or construction of property in the region;
16° To write off revenue vouchers, or certain categories of them, presented by the public accountant, each of these vouchers corresponding to an irrecoverable debt of an amount below a threshold set by deliberation of the regional council, which may not be higher than a threshold set by decree. This same decree specifies the procedures according to which the Chairman reports to the Regional Council on the exercise of this delegation;
17° To authorise the special mandates that the members of the Regional Council may be required to carry out as part of their duties, as well as the reimbursement of related expenses as provided for in the fourth and penultimate paragraphs of article L. 4135-19 of this code.
The Chairman shall inform the Council of the acts taken in the context of these delegations.
The delegations granted pursuant to 1° of this article shall terminate as soon as the election campaign for the renewal of the Regional Council begins.