CHAPTER I: Organisation and operation

An inter-regional agreement is a public establishment that brings together several regions with a continuous territory. An interregional agreement may associate an island region or the territorial collectivity of Corsica with one or more neighbouring regions. The interregional agreement is created by decree in the Conseil d’Etat following concordant deliberations by the regional councils and possibly the Assembly of Corsica, and following the opinion of the regional economic, social and…

The interregional agreement is administered by a council made up of delegates from the regional councils elected by proportional voting with the highest average. Lists of candidates may include fewer names than seats to be filled. The founding decision determines the number of members and the distribution of delegates between each regional council. The council settles matters falling within the remit of the interregional agreement by its deliberations. It elects…

The chairman of the interregional agreement is elected under the conditions set out in article L. 4133-1. It is the executive body of the interregional agreement. He chairs the standing committee. .

The interregional agreement exercises the competences listed in the founding decision on behalf of the member regions. It ensures the coherence of the programmes of the member regions.As such, it may conclude plan contracts with the State in place of the regions that make it up, within the limits of the competences that have been transferred to it. The interregional agreement replaces the institutions of common utility grouping the member…

The provisions of Title IV of Book I of Part Four relating to the control of legality, publicity and entry into force of the acts of the regional authorities are applicable to inter-regional agreements. Administrative control of the inter-regional agreement is exercised by the representative of the State in the region where its registered office is located.

Any modification to the decision establishing the inter-regional agreement is pronounced by decree in the Conseil d’Etat on a proposal from the council of the agreement and after concordant deliberations by the regional councils of the member regions. A member region may withdraw following a unanimous decision by the council of the agreement. The agreement may be dissolved, at the request of the regional council of a member region, under…

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 inter-regional cooperation, budgets, accounts, as well as the decrees of the presidents of these public establishments. Each may publish them under its own responsibility. The documents referred to in the first paragraph, which may be obtained both from the president and from the decentralised departments…