Section 1: General provisions

The mayor of a municipality that exercises its own responsibilities for drinking water and wastewater treatment, or the chairman of a group of local authorities that exercises both drinking water and wastewater treatment responsibilities, may present a single annual report. If he chooses to present two separate reports, he shall show, in an introductory note, the total price of water and its various components using the indicators mentioned in annexes…

The municipal council of each municipality that is a member of a public establishment for inter-municipal cooperation shall receive the annual report adopted by this establishment. In each municipality that has transferred at least one of its competencies in the field of drinking water or sanitation or the prevention and management of household and similar waste to one or more public establishments for inter-municipal cooperation, the mayor presents to the…

In communes or public establishments for inter-communal cooperation with 3,500 inhabitants or more, the annual report(s), as well as, where applicable, the introductory notes defined in articles D. 2224-1 to D. 2224-4, are made available to the public at the town hall and, where applicable, at the annexed town hall, or at the head office of the public establishment for inter-communal cooperation. These elements, as well as the opinion of…