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BOOK IV: INTERDEPARTMENTAL COOPERATION

Article L5411-1 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

Two or more departmental councils may initiate between themselves, through their presidents, an agreement on objects of departmental utility included in their attributions and which interest both their respective departments. They may enter into agreements with each other, for the purpose of undertaking or maintaining at common expense works or institutions of common utility.

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Article L5421-1 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

Interdepartmental institutions or bodies are freely constituted by two or more departmental councils of even non-adjacent departments; they may also associate regional councils or municipal councils. Interdepartmental institutions or bodies are public establishments, invested with legal personality and financial autonomy. They are administered in accordance with the rules laid down for departmental management. Their administration is carried out by departmental councillors elected for this purpose. Where they involve regional councils…

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Article L5421-5 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

Any natural or legal person has the right to request communication of the deliberations and minutes of the deliberative assemblies of the public establishments of interdepartmental cooperation, budgets, accounts, as well as the decrees of the presidents of these public establishments. Each may publish them under its own responsibility. The communication of the documents mentioned in the first paragraph, which may be obtained both from the president and from the…

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Article L5421-7 of the French General Code of Local Authorities

When an interdepartmental institution or body mentioned in Article L. 5421-1 meets the conditions set out in Article L. 5721-2, it may be transformed into a mixed syndicate. This transformation is decided, on the proposal of the board of directors of the institution or body, by the concurring deliberations of its members. The deliberative bodies of the members decide within three months of notification to their president of the deliberation…

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