BOOK I: GENERAL PROVISIONS

Territorial authorities may associate for the exercise of their competences by creating public cooperation bodies in the forms and conditions provided for by the legislation in force. The category of groupings of territorial collectivities includes public establishments for inter-municipal cooperation and mixed syndicates, mentioned in articles L. 5711-1 and L. 5721-8, metropolitan poles, territorial and rural balance poles, departmental agencies, interdepartmental institutions or bodies and interregional agreements. Agreements for the…

I. – When their purpose is to ensure the joint exercise of a competence recognised by law or transferred to their signatories, the agreements concluded between the départements, the Lyon metropolis, the regions, their public establishments, their groupings, the municipalities belonging to the Greater Paris metropolis and the mixed syndicates provide for: – either the provision of the service and equipment of one of the co-contracting parties to the agreement…

When a grouping of local and regional authorities exercises powers in an area that is subject to a transfer of powers, the transfer is made to that body by decision of the deliberative body.

When a public establishment for cooperation between territorial authorities without its own tax status is transformed into another category of public establishment for cooperation between territorial authorities, the applicable transformation rules are those for the creation of a new public establishment for cooperation. When a public establishment for cooperation between local authorities with its own tax status is transformed into another public establishment for cooperation with its own tax status,…

The provisions of Chapters II and III of Title V of Book II of Part Two are applicable to groupings of local authorities and other local public establishments. Public establishments for inter-municipal cooperation may apply article L. 2251-3 and article L. 2251-4.

The provisions of articles LO 1113-1 to LO 1113-7 are applicable to public establishments made up exclusively of local and regional authorities.

The creation of a syndicate of communes referred to in Article L. 5212-1 or a mixed syndicate referred to in l’article L. 5711-1 or to article L. 5721-1 may only be authorised by the State representative in the department if it is compatible with the departmental inter-municipal cooperation scheme mentioned in article L. 5210-1-1 or with the rationalisation guidelines referred to in III of the same Article L. 5210-1-1. This…

I.- A local authority employee who changes employer as a result of a reorganisation provided for in the present part benefits from the provisions of article L. 714-9 of the General Civil Service Code. I bis. – With regard to the employees mentioned in I, the new employer is automatically substituted for the former employer for the participation agreement and, where applicable, the supplementary social protection contract that were concluded…

A civil servant whose post is abolished as a result of a reorganisation provided for in this part shall be subject to the training obligations under the conditions provided for in Article L. 542-11 of the General Civil Service Code.