Section 9: Informing and involving residents.

Any natural or legal person has the right to request communication of the deliberations and minutes of the deliberative bodies of the public establishments of inter-municipal cooperation, the budgets and accounts of these establishments as well as the decrees of their president. 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 electors of the communes that are members of a public establishment of inter-communal cooperation may be consulted on decisions that the deliberative body or the president of this establishment are called upon to take in order to regulate matters within the competence of the establishment. At the proposal of all of the mayors of the member communes, or at the written request of half of the members of the…

The deliberative body of a public establishment for inter-municipal cooperation may set up consultative committees on any matters of inter-municipal interest falling within its remit over all or part of the community territory. The committees may be consulted by the chairman on any question or project concerning local public services and facilities relating to the purpose for which they were set up and they may forward to the chairman any…

An information file on the subject of the consultation is made available to the public on site at the headquarters of the public establishment for inter-municipal cooperation, in each town hall and, where applicable, annex town hall of the communes that are members of the public establishment. Public access to the file is provided under the conditions set out in article L. 311-9 of the code des relations entre le…

After taking note of the result of the consultation, the deliberative body of the public establishment for inter-municipal cooperation deliberates under the conditions provided for in articles L. 2121-20 and L. 2121-21.

No consultation of the electors of the communes that are members of a public establishment for inter-municipal cooperation may take place from 1 January of the calendar year preceding the year of the general renewal of the municipal councils or during the electoral campaigns preceding the elections by direct or indirect universal suffrage. Two consultations on the same subject may not take place within a period of less than two…

Where the appointment of the members of the deliberative body of the public establishment for inter-municipal cooperation, or of the president of the latter, is the subject of a contentious appeal to the administrative court and, if necessary, to the Council of State, no consultation may take place until this appointment has been the subject of a decision that has become final.

A decree in the Council of State shall determine the conditions of application of this section.