Article L5211-28 of the French General Code of Local Authorities
I. – Public establishments for inter-municipal cooperation with their own taxation belonging to the following categories receive, from the year in which they first receive the proceeds of their taxation, an allocation under the inter-municipality grant: 1° Urban communities and metropolises, including the Greater Paris metropolis and the Aix-Marseille-Provence metropolis as well as the Lyon metropolis; 2° Agglomeration communities; 3° Communities of communes applying the dispositions de l’article 1609 nonies…