Section 1: General provisions

The deliberations by which the local authorities or their groupings request the creation of a public cultural or environmental cooperation establishment defined in article L. 1431-1 are sent to the State representative who decides on its creation by a decree to which are attached the articles of association approved by each of the members of the establishment. The prefect of the département in which the establishment has its registered office…

The Articles of Association of the public establishment for cultural or environmental cooperation define the tasks of the establishment, its administrative or industrial and commercial nature, its organisational and operational rules, the number and distribution of seats on the Board of Directors, the terms of office of its members and the procedures for their renewal, as well as the procedures for electing staff and, where applicable, student representatives. They provide…

A local authority, a grouping of local authorities or a national public establishment may join a public establishment for cultural or environmental cooperation, after it has been created, on a proposal from the latter’s board of directors and following concordant decisions by the respective assemblies or deliberative bodies of the local authorities, groupings and national and, where applicable, local public establishments that make it up. The representative of the State…