CHAPTER V: External action by local and regional authorities

In compliance with France’s international commitments, local and regional authorities and their groupings may implement or support any annual or multi-annual international cooperation, development aid or humanitarian action. In doing so, they shall take into consideration the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 25 September 2015. To this end, local authorities and their groupings may, where appropriate, enter into agreements with foreign local…

Municipalities, public establishments for inter-municipal cooperation and mixed syndicates responsible for public drinking water distribution and sanitation services or public electricity and gas distribution services may, within the limit of 1% of the resources allocated to the budgets of these services, carry out cooperation actions with foreign territorial authorities and their groupings, within the framework of the agreements provided for in article L. 1115-1, emergency aid actions for the benefit…

Municipalities, public establishments for inter-municipal cooperation and mixed syndicates responsible for the collection and treatment of household waste within the meaning of Article L. 2224-13 or collecting the tax or fee for the removal of household waste may carry out, within the limit of 1% of the resources that are allocated to the budgets of these services and within the framework of article L. 1115-1, cooperation, development aid or humanitarian…

The mobility organising authorities pursuant to I of article L. 1231-1 of the Transport Code, the municipalities continuing to organise mobility services pursuant to II of the same article L. 1231-1 and the “Île-de-France Mobilités” public establishment mentioned in article L. 1241-1 of the same code may, within the limit of 1% of the resources allocated to the mobility services budgets, excluding the payment intended for the financing of mobility…

Territorial authorities and their groupings may, within the limits of their powers and in compliance with France’s international commitments, join a public body governed by foreign law or participate in the capital of a legal entity governed by foreign law in which at least one territorial authority or grouping of territorial authorities of a Member State of the European Union or a Member State of the Council of Europe is…

In the context of cross-border cooperation, local and regional authorities and their groupings may create with foreign local and regional authorities and their groupings a local cross-border cooperation grouping known as a European district, with legal personality and financial autonomy. The purpose of the European district is to carry out tasks that are of interest to each of the participating public entities and to create and manage public services and…

In the context of cross-border, transnational or inter-regional cooperation, territorial authorities, their groupings and, after authorisation from their supervisory authority, bodies governed by public law within the meaning of Directive 2004/18/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 31 March 2004 on the coordination of procedures for the award of public works contracts, public supply contracts and public service contracts may, within the limits of their competences and…

A territorial authority or grouping of territorial authorities may not enter into an agreement with a foreign State, except in the cases provided for by law or where the agreement is intended to enable the creation of a European grouping of territorial cooperation, a Euroregional grouping of cooperation or a local grouping of cross-border cooperation. In the latter case, the signing of the agreement must be authorised in advance by…

A National Commission for Decentralised Cooperation is created, which will draw up and keep up to date a report on the external action of local and regional authorities. It promotes coordination between the State and local and regional authorities and between local and regional authorities and may formulate any proposal relating to the external action of local and regional authorities. Local and regional authorities and their groupings provide the commission…

Decrees in the Council of State shall, where necessary, lay down the conditions for the application of this chapter.