Section 2: Right to training

I. - The municipalities that are members of a public establishment for inter-municipal cooperation with their own tax status may decide to entrust the latter, under the conditions provided for by article L. 5211-17, with the implementation of the provisions relating to the training of elected representatives provided for in the last three paragraphs of article L. 2123-12. They take a decision within six months of the installation of the municipal council following each general renewal. They may also deliberate on this subject on their own initiative at any time.

The transfer automatically entails the budget of the public establishment of inter-communal cooperation with its own tax status bearing the training costs referred to in article L. 2123-14.

Within nine months of the decision of the State representative pronouncing the transfer in application of this I, and within nine months of its installation after each general renewal of the municipal councils, the deliberative body of the public establishment for inter-municipal cooperation with its own tax authority deliberates on the exercise of the right to training of the elected representatives of the member municipalities. It determines the guidelines and appropriations for this purpose. The provisions of the last paragraph of article L. 2123-12 are applicable from the date of the transfer.

II. - Within six months of its renewal, where the provisions of I have not been applied, the deliberative body of the public establishment of inter-municipal cooperation with its own tax status deliberates on the advisability of proposing common tools aimed at developing training related to the exercise of the mandate of the elected representatives of the member municipalities provided for in article L. 2123-12.

This deliberation specifies, where applicable, the systems envisaged. In particular, it may include the drawing up of a training plan and the rules for monitoring, financing and evaluating it. It may also authorise participation in the financing of training organised either on the initiative of the elected representatives of the member municipalities under their individual right to training referred to in article L. 2123-12-1, or on the initiative of the member municipalities, under the conditions set out in article L. 2123-12, when such training is linked to the exercise of the mandate.

III. - The provisions of this article apply without prejudice to articles L. 5211-4-2, L. 5214-16-1, L. 5215-27, L. 5216-7-1 and L. 5217-7.