French General Code of Local Authorities
In forceA public establishment for intercommunal cooperation with its own tax status may transfer any competence to a syndicate of communes or a mixed syndicate whose perimeter includes the entire community perimeter after the syndicate has been created or the public establishment has joined.
By way of derogation from the previous paragraph, in matters of water and watercourse management, drinking water supply, collective or non-collective sanitation, urban rainwater management, external fire defence, collection or treatment of household and similar waste, or the distribution of electricity or natural gas, a public establishment for inter-municipal cooperation with its own tax status or a territorial public establishment may transfer any competence to a syndicate of communes or a mixed syndicate covering all or part of its territory or to several syndicates each located on distinct parts of its territory.
With regard to the management of aquatic environments and flood prevention, a public establishment for inter-municipal cooperation with its own tax status or a territorial public establishment may transfer to a syndicate of communes or a mixed syndicate all of the tasks relating to this competence, defined in Ia of Article L. 211-7 of the Environment Code, or some of them, in whole or in part. By way of derogation from the first paragraph of this article, this total or partial transfer may be made to a syndicate of municipalities or a mixed syndicate covering all or part of the territory of the public establishment of inter-municipal cooperation with its own tax status or of the territorial public establishment or to several syndicates each located on distinct parts of the territory of the establishment.
A public establishment for intercommunal cooperation with its own tax status or a territorial public establishment may delegate to a mixed syndicate mentioned in article L. 213-12 of the Environment Code all or some of the tasks mentioned in the third paragraph of this article, in whole or in part. This total or partial delegation may be carried out for the benefit of a mixed syndicate covering all or part of the territory of the public establishment, or for the benefit of several syndicates, each covering distinct parts of this territory. Such a delegation obeys the procedures laid down in the last two paragraphs of Article L. 1111-8.
Where by application of the preceding paragraphs or the articles L. 5214-21, L. 5215-22 ou L. 5216-7, a public establishment for intercommunal cooperation with its own tax status is a member of a mixed syndicate for only part of its territory, the population taken into account as part of the majority provided for in articles L. 5211-17 to L. 5211-20 and L. 5212-27 in respect of that establishment is the population corresponding to the part of its territory included in the joint association.
