#2019-1461Law on Engagement in Local Life and Proximity of Public Action
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This law enhances involvement between municipalities and intercommunal public bodies in France. It introduces governance pacts to ensure a more integrated approach to policy development and implementation. The law mandates regular meetings of a mayor's conference, improving coordination at the local level.
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Key Changes
- Introduction of governance pacts between municipalities and intercommunal bodies
- Mandate for regular mayoral conferences to improve coordination
- Encouragement of public participation in policy-making processes
Obligations
What this law requires
Governance pact modifications must follow the same procedural requirements as initial elaboration, including deliberative body debate and member municipal council consultation
After each general municipal council renewal or specified structural operation, the president of the intercommunal public body must place on the deliberative body's agenda: (1) a debate and deliberation on elaborating a governance pact between communes and the public body, and (2) a debate and deliberation on conditions for consulting the development council and associating the population in policy conception, implementation, or evaluation.
If the deliberative body decides to elaborate a governance pact, it must adopt it within nine months of the general renewal or operation, after obtaining advice from member municipal councils rendered within two months of project transmission.
Create a mandatory mayors' conference in intercommunal public bodies with own taxation, except when the bureau already comprises all member commune mayors. The conference must be chaired by the intercommunal body's president and include all member commune mayors.
The mayors' conference must meet on a determined agenda, at the initiative of the intercommunal body's president or, limited to four meetings per year, upon demand of one-third of the mayors.