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Article L3431-3

French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
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Updated 7 Nov 2023

I.-The European Collectivity of Alsace is responsible for organising the procedures for implementing the Alsace cross-border cooperation plan, while respecting the competences of the other territorial communities and their groupings. In this regard, the operational section of the Alsace cross-border cooperation scheme defines its implementation arrangements as follows:


1° It lists the projects that it proposes to implement;


2° It identifies, for each project, the territorial authority or grouping responsible for its implementation, the relevant competencies of the territorial authorities and groupings and, if necessary, provides for the delegation of competencies agreements that it is proposed that they enter into.


II.-For the implementation of the operational section, where this requires the delegation of powers :


1° Each project is the subject of a separate skills delegation agreement;


2° Each agreement precisely defines the delegated skills or parts of skills required to carry out the project;


3° Each agreement freely defines its duration in relation to that of the project concerned, as well as the procedures for its termination by its signatories;


4° Within the framework of the agreement mentioned in 1° of this II, and without prejudice to Article L. 1511-2, a public establishment for inter-municipal cooperation with its own tax status may delegate to the Collectivité européenne d'Alsace all or part of its competences contributing to the objective of integration through economic activity, within the framework of the development of local activities, in coherence with the interventions of other competent authorities, in particular the region.


Subject to this II, these agreements are subject to Article L. 1111-8, when they are concluded between territorial authorities or between the European Collectivity of Alsace and a public establishment for inter-municipal cooperation with its own tax status, and in article L. 1111-8-1, when they are concluded between a territorial authority and the State.

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