New-Aquitaine: scope of EPCI with own taxation derived from the SDCI on the regional perimeter and the neighbouring departments — surfacique

The NOTRE Law of 7 August 2015 provided for the development and implementation of new departmental schemes of inter-communal cooperation by 1 January 2017. In particular, it sets a minimum population threshold of 15 000 inhabitants, which can be adapted for sparsely populated or mountainous areas, in order to enable the emergence of intercommunalities with strengthened resources better able to meet the expectations of our citizens. In the autumn of 2015, the prefects presented to their departmental commission for intercommunal cooperation (CDCI), a body composed of elected representatives representing the various authorities and groupings of the department, ambitious plans proposing a 42 % reduction in the number of EPCIs at national level. These draft schemes were sent for opinion to the authorities and groups concerned, before returning to the CDCI, to whom the law gave the possibility of amending the projects of the prefects by a two-thirds majority of their members, in a logic of co-construction of the intercommunality between the representative of the State and the local elected representatives. The CISC’s consideration of the draft schema gave rise to in-depth discussions, which often took place in several successive sessions. At the end of this examination, the prefects adopted their departmental plan, incorporating the amendments which had been adopted under the conditions of majority required by law.