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The law of Modernisation of Territorial Public Action and the affirmation of metropolises (MAPTAM) of 27 January 2014 corrected the lack of legal basis of the Countries and gave them a new future. Thanks to this new provision, they will be able to continue their territorial dynamics, which have sometimes existed for more than 10 years within a secure and stabilised legal framework.
Article 79 of the MAPTAM Law offers the territories a new tool, the Pôle d'quilibr Territorial and Rural, which is also included in the new Article L. 5741-1 of the CGCT, referring to Article L. 5711-1 of the same code, governing the closed joint union composed solely in the present case of public establishments of intercommunal cooperation with own taxation. This territorial centre will have to bring together at least two EPCIs with own taxation, one EPCI may not belong to more than one Pole. The Pole will be created through consistent deliberations of the EPCI and its creation will be approved by the Prefect of the Department of its headquarters.
In addition, the law restores a legal basis for the Development Council, a body composed of the socio-economic actors of the territory. It is consulted, inter alia, on the main directions of the Pole and on the territorial project. A Mayors’ Conference is also set up.
This new legislation therefore allows the developing countries and territorial poles to continue to carry out their actions and to work for the revitalisation of their territories, at the service of the EPCI which make up it. They can constitute the framework for sub-regional and sub-departmental contractualisation of development, planning and solidarity policies between territories.
Established by the Law on Guidance for the Planning and Development of the Territory (L.O.A.D.T., known as the Pasqua Law) of 4 February 1995, the concept of a country was specified in the Law on Guidance for the Planning and Sustainable Development of the Territory (L.O.A.D.D.T. No. 99-533, known as the Voynet Law) of 25 June 1999 and its implementing decree (Decree No. 2000-909 of 19/09/2000). A country, within the meaning of the Act of 4 February 1995, is a territory with geographical, cultural, economic or social coherence. The law of 25 June 1999 makes the country a real project territory, based on local will. The country is thus a project space for which public and private actors build from local potential a sustainable development project. On the basis of the delimitation of a study area agreed by the Prefect of the Region, a development council is set up to draw up a charter of sustainable development of the country and formulate an opinion on any question of spatial planning of the country. Subsequently, a management structure is set up, the country’s managing body, which translates the guidelines of the charter into an action programme, the country contract.
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