French General Code of Local Authorities
In forceI. - The departmental commission for inter-communal cooperation is made up of :
1° 50% by mayors, deputy mayors or municipal councillors elected by proportional representation on the basis of the highest average by the mayors grouped within electoral colleges determined according to the demographic size of the communes;
2° 30% by representatives of public establishments for inter-communal cooperation with their own tax system having their headquarters in the department, elected by proportional representation on the basis of the highest average by the college of presidents of the deliberative bodies of these establishments;
3° 5% by representatives of mixed syndicates and syndicates of communes, elected by proportional representation to the highest average by the college of presidents of each of these categories of syndicate;
4° 10% by representatives of the departmental council, elected by the latter by proportional representation to the highest average;
5° 5% by representatives of the regional council in the departmental constituency, elected by the latter by proportional representation to the highest average.
The departmental commission for intercommunal cooperation in the Rhône department is called the "departmental-metropolitan commission for intercommunal cooperation". It includes, in addition to the total number of members designated in application of 1° to 5° and for 5% of this total, representatives of the Lyon metropolitan council, elected by the latter by proportional representation on the basis of the highest average.
For the Corsican collectivity, each commission is made up of 10% councillors of the Corsican Assembly elected from among its members and 5% executive councillors designated by the president of the executive council, in place of the representatives mentioned in 4° and 5° of this article.
For the appointment of the representatives of the municipalities mentioned in 1°, when a single list of candidates meeting the required conditions has been sent to the representative of the State in the department by the departmental association of mayors and no other individual or collective candidature is presented, the representative of the State takes note of this and no election is held for the representatives of the different colleges of mayors. The same applies to the appointment of the representatives of the inter-communal public bodies with their own tax status mentioned in 2° and that of the representatives of the trade unions mentioned in 3°.
The term of office of the members of the commission ends when the functions in respect of which they were appointed are renewed. They shall be replaced in accordance with the provisions of this article.
II. - As long as they are not members of the departmental commission for inter-municipal cooperation by virtue of a local mandate, the following are associated with the work of the commission, without the right to vote:
1° All the MPs and senators elected in the department, where the department has fewer than five MPs;
2° Two M.P.s and two Senators elected in the department, where the department has five or more M.P.s;
The other M.P.s and Senators elected in the department, where the department has five or more M.P.s. In the latter case, the other MPs elected in the department will receive an explanatory report for each item on the agenda before any meeting of the committee.
