PART FIVE: LOCAL COOPERATION

The communes may draw up and approve inter-communal development and planning charters which define the medium-term prospects for their economic, social and cultural development, determine the corresponding action programmes, and specify the conditions for the organisation and operation of public facilities and services. On the proposal of the municipalities concerned, the boundaries of the areas concerned are decided by the State representative in the department, after consulting the departmental council….

The charters may be used as a basis for agreements with the département, region or state for the implementation of the projects and programmes they have defined. In rural areas, inter-municipal charters replace rural development plans.

Where an intermunicipal development and planning charter has provided for the application of the procedures set out in articles L. 121-2 and L. 126-1 of the Code rural et de la pêche maritime, the representative of the State in the département implements them after consulting the communes concerned. The State representative in the département implements these measures after consulting the communes concerned. The State representative in the département implements these…