When the application of a fiscal or budgetary provision results in an increase or decrease in the operating resources of a commune that is a member of a syndicate by a percentage equal to or greater than 10% of the revenue of the operating section, in the case of a commune with fewer than 20,000 inhabitants, and 5% in other cases, each member commune may request the syndicate committee to amend the rules setting the terms and conditions for the distribution of the communes’ financial contributions to the syndicate’s budget from the following year.
If the syndicate committee has not granted the request within six months, or if the deliberation of the syndicate committee has not been approved by the municipal councils under the conditions provided for in the second, and third paragraphs of Article L. 5211-20, the representative of the State in the département may, at the request of the commune concerned and after obtaining the opinion of the chambre régionale des comptes (regional audit office), amend the rules governing the distribution of the communes’ financial contributions to the syndicate’s budget.