#2026-442Financial Compensation for Childcare Public Service Responsibilities Extended to All Municipalities
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This law extends financial compensation for childcare public service responsibilities to all French municipalities, not only those with more than 3,500 residents. It also covers intermunicipal bodies and mixed unions when they carry out the full set of organizing-authority duties for early childhood services. The change matters for smaller municipalities and local authorities that manage or receive transferred childcare responsibilities. It takes effect on January 1, 2027, and any extra cost to the state is offset through an additional tobacco excise tax.
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Key Changes
- Extends childcare public service compensation to all municipalities, removing the previous population-based limitation
- Includes intermunicipal public bodies and mixed unions when they carry out the full set of organizing-authority duties
- Sets the effective date at January 1, 2027, with state costs offset through an additional tobacco excise tax
Obligations
What this law requires
From 1 January 2027, financial compensation for exercising all early-childhood public-service organizing-authority competences must be made available to municipalities regardless of population size when they exercise those competences themselves and have not transferred them to an intermunicipal public cooperation body or mixed union.
From 1 January 2027, intermunicipal public cooperation bodies and mixed unions that exercise the full set of early-childhood organizing-authority competences must be included among entities eligible for the relevant financial compensation.
Any additional financial cost to the State resulting from this law must be offset by creating an additional tax on the tobacco excise provided for in the French Code on Taxes on Goods and Services.