When a mixed syndicate composed exclusively of public establishments of intercommunal cooperation with their own tax status fulfils the conditions set out in I of article L. 5741-1, it may be transformed into a territorial and rural balance centre.
This transformation is decided, on a proposal from the syndicate committee, by concurring deliberations of the public establishments of intercommunal cooperation with their own tax status that are members of the syndicate. The union committee and the deliberative bodies of the public establishments of inter-municipal cooperation with their own tax status decide within a period of three months from notification to their president of the deliberation proposing the transformation. In the absence of a decision within this timeframe, their decision is deemed to be favourable.
All of the assets, rights and obligations of the transformed syndicat are transferred to the pôle d’équilibre territorial et rural, which is automatically substituted for the syndicat in all of the latter’s deliberations and acts from the date of the transformation. Contracts are performed under the previous conditions until they expire, unless the parties agree otherwise. The contracting parties are informed of the change of legal entity. The substitution of a legal entity for contracts concluded by the syndicat does not give rise to any right to termination or compensation for the co-contractor. All the staff of the syndicat mixte are deemed to come under the jurisdiction of the pôle d’équilibre territorial et rural, under its own conditions of status and employment.