Section 1: Departmental commercial development commissions.

A departmental commercial development commission rules on applications for authorisation submitted to it under the provisions of articles L. 752-1, L. 752-3 and L. 752-15.

I.-The departmental commercial development commission is chaired by the Prefect. For any new project, it interviews the person responsible for promoting town centre retailing on behalf of the municipality or the inter-municipal public cooperation establishment with its own tax system, the retail agency and the retailer associations in the municipality where the project is to be implemented and in neighbouring municipalities where these exist. It informs the mayors of the…

Any member of the departmental commission for commercial development shall inform the prefect of the interests he holds and the position he holds in an economic activity. No member of the departmental commission may deliberate in a case in which he has a personal interest or if he represents or has represented one or more parties.

The conditions under which the members of the commission are appointed and the procedures for its operation are laid down by decree in the Conseil d’Etat.