Section 4: Powers

I.-The agglomeration community automatically exercises the following competencies in place of the member municipalities: 1° In terms of economic development: economic development actions under the conditions set out in article L. 4251-17; creation, development, maintenance and management of industrial, commercial, tertiary, craft, tourist, port or airport activity zones; local trade policy and support for commercial activities of community interest; promotion of tourism, including the creation of tourist offices, without prejudice…

The agglomeration community is substituted ipso jure for the syndicat de communes or syndicat mixte whose perimeter is identical to its own, for all the competences it exercises. The agglomeration community is also automatically substituted, for the competences it exercises, for the syndicat de communes or syndicat mixte included entirely within its perimeter. The substitution of the agglomeration community for the syndicate is carried out under the conditions provided for…

I. – When some of the communes of a syndicat de communes or a syndicat mixte form part of a communauté d’agglomération, by the creation of this communauté, by the merger of public establishments of inter-municipal cooperation to form a communauté d’agglomération or by the transformation of a public establishment of inter-municipal cooperation into a communauté d’agglomération, and this community is included in its entirety in the syndicate, this creation,…

The provisions of article L. 5215-27 are applicable to the agglomeration community.