TITLE IV: TERRITORIAL AND RURAL BALANCE CENTRES

I. – The territorial and rural balance cluster is a public establishment formed by agreement between several public establishments of inter-municipal cooperation with their own tax status and, where applicable, a new commune mentioned in the first and second paragraphs of article L. 2113-9 , within a perimeter that is continuous and without enclaves. A public establishment for intercommunal cooperation with its own tax status may not belong to more…

I. – Within twelve months of its establishment, the territorial and rural balance cluster draws up a territorial project on behalf of and in partnership with the public establishments for inter-municipal cooperation that make it up. At the decision of the cluster’s trade union committee, the departmental councils and regional councils concerned may be involved in drawing up the territorial project. The territorial project defines the conditions for economic, ecological,…

I. – When the perimeter of the territorial and rural balance cluster corresponds to that of a territorial coherence scheme, the cluster may be entrusted, by the public establishments of inter-communal cooperation with their own tax status that make it up, with the preparation, review and amendment of this scheme. Where the perimeter of the territorial and rural balance cluster partially overlaps with one or more territorial coherence schemes, the…

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…

The trade union council of the territorial and rural balance cluster may propose that the public establishments for intercommunal cooperation with their own tax status that make it up merge under the conditions provided for in article L. 5211-41-3.