Section 4: Powers.

I. – The communauté de communes automatically exercises, in place of the member communes, the competences falling within each of the following groups: 1° Spatial planning for the implementation of actions of community interest; territorial coherence plan and sectoral plan; local town planning plan, town planning document in lieu thereof and communal map; 2° Economic development actions under the conditions set out in article L. 4251-17 ; creation, development, maintenance…

Without prejudice to article L. 5211-56, the communauté de communes may, by agreement with the territorial communities or public establishments concerned, entrust the creation or management of certain facilities or services falling within its remit to one or more member communes, to their groupings or to any other territorial community or public establishment. Under the same conditions, these territorial collectivities and public establishments may entrust the communauté de communes with…

When it exercises at least one of the three competences defined in 1°, 2° and 4° of II of Article L. 5214-16 or the organisation of public passenger transport within the meaning of loi n° 82-1153 du 30 décembre 1982 d’orientation des transports intérieurs, la communauté de communes peut organiser un service public de location de bicyclettes.

I. – The community of communes whose perimeter is identical to that of a syndicate of communes or a mixed syndicate is substituted ipso jure for that syndicate of communes or that mixed syndicate for all the competences that they exercise. The community of communes is also substituted ipso jure, for the competences that it exercises or comes to exercise, for the syndicate of communes or the mixed syndicate included…

A decree in the Conseil d’Etat sets the conditions under which competences previously exercised by a syndicate of communes included in whole or in part within the perimeter of the community or encompassing it may be devolved to a community of communes.