Section 2: Public territorial establishments

In the perimeter of the Greater Paris metropolitan area, public establishments for inter-municipal cooperation known as “territorial public establishments” are created on 1 January 2016. Subject to the provisions of this chapter, these public establishments are subject to the provisions applicable to syndicats de communes. Consisting of a single area without an enclave, with a population of at least 300,000, these establishments include all the member municipalities of the Greater…

The allowances voted by the territorial council for the actual performance of the duties of president of a territorial public establishment are less than or equal to 110% of the reference term mentioned in I of article L. 2123-20. The allowances voted by the territorial council for the actual performance of the duties of vice-president of a territorial public establishment are less than or equal to 44% of the reference…

I. – The territorial public establishment, in place and stead of its member municipalities, shall automatically exercise competences in the areas of: 1° Urban policy: a) Drawing up a diagnosis of the territory and defining the guidelines for the city contract; b) Leading and coordinating contractual arrangements for urban development, local development and economic and social integration, as well as local arrangements for preventing delinquency; c) Action programmes defined in…

An Assembly of Mayors of the Greater Paris Metropolis, made up of all the mayors of the municipalities located within the territorial jurisdiction of the metropolis, meets at least once a year to discuss the metropolis’ action programme and activity report. It issues opinions and recommendations which are forwarded to the Metropolitan Council. The assembly of mayors is convened by the president of the metropolis, who is the ex officio…

Par dérogation à l’article L. 5217-12, the Greater Paris metropolitan area benefits from a global operating grant equal to the sum of the following two components: 1° An inter-municipality grant, calculated, in the first year of collection of the global operating grant, on the basis of its population and the average of the per capita grants of the pre-existing public establishments for inter-municipal cooperation weighted by their population. In subsequent…

I. – Taxes and impositions collected by way of assessment, on behalf of the Greater Paris metropolitan area, are allocated monthly, in the amount of one twelfth of their total amount, as provided for in the budget for the current year, with the first payment being made before 31 January. When the amount to be allocated cannot be determined as indicated in the previous paragraph, the monthly allocations are made…

The metropolitan council is composed of metropolitan councillors elected under the conditions provided for in Title V of Book I of the Electoral Code. The distribution of seats on the metropolitan council between communes is carried out under the conditions provided for in article L. 5211-6-1 of this code. [Provisions declared to be unconstitutional by Constitutional Council decision no. 2015-717 DC of 6 August 2015.]

Each territorial council is made up of a number of councillors determined pursuant to III and IV of article L. 5211-6-1. In each commune, the metropolitan councillor or councillors of the commune are designated as territory councillors and the additional seats are filled in accordance with b of 1° of Article L. 5211-6-2.

I. – The services or parts of services of the municipalities or public establishments of inter-municipal cooperation with their own tax status existing on 31 December 2014 which participate in the exercise of the competences of the Greater Paris metropolitan area are transferred to the Greater Paris metropolitan area, in accordance with the procedures set out in Article L. 5211-4-1. II. – The departments or parts of departments of the…

The council of the Greater Paris metropolis adopts by a two-thirds majority, within six months of its creation, a financial and fiscal pact defining the financial relations between the Greater Paris metropolis, the territorial public establishments and the communes located within the perimeter of the metropolis. The financial and fiscal pact determines the compensation allocations due to the member communes, in accordance with the procedures defined in X of article…