PART ONE: GENERAL PROVISIONS

Territorial authorities and their groupings may set up, with the State and national public establishments, a public cultural cooperation establishment responsible for the creation and management of a public cultural service of interest to each of the legal entities in question and contributing to the achievement of national objectives in the field of culture. They may also set up a public establishment for environmental cooperation responsible for increasing and improving…

The creation of a public establishment for cultural or environmental cooperation may only take place at the request of all the territorial authorities or groupings concerned, expressed by concordant deliberations of their councils or their deliberative bodies. It is decided by order of the State representative in the region or department in which the establishment has its headquarters. The articles of association of the public establishment, approved by all the…

The public establishment for cultural or environmental cooperation is administered by a board of directors and its chairman. The board of directors is composed in such a way that the difference between the number of men appointed, on the one hand, and women appointed, on the other, is no greater than 1. The public cooperative establishment is headed by a director.

I. – The board of directors of the public establishment for cultural or environmental cooperation is made up of: 1°A majority of its members are representatives of local authorities or their groupings, appointed from among their members by their councils or their deliberative bodies, representatives of the State and, where appropriate, representatives of national public establishments. The mayor of the municipality in which the establishment has its headquarters may, at…

Notwithstanding the provisions of article L. 1431-6, the situation of the director of the public establishment for cultural or environmental cooperation is governed by the following provisions. The director of the public establishment for cultural or environmental cooperation is appointed by the chairman of the board of directors, on a proposal from this board and after drawing up specifications, for a term of office of three to five years, renewable…

I. – The staff of public cultural or environmental cooperation establishments of an administrative nature are subject to the provisions of loi n° 84-53 du 26 janvier 1984 portant dispositions statutaires relatives à la fonction publique territoriale. II. – The staff of public establishments for cultural or environmental cooperation of an industrial and commercial nature, with the exception of the director and the accounting officer, are subject to the provisions…