The communauté d'agglomération du Pays Basque ( Basque : Euskal Hirigune Elkargoa , " agglomeration community of the Basque Country"), is the agglomeration community (federation of communes ), centred on the cities of Bayonne and Biarritz . Also referred to as the French Basque Country , or Northern Basque Country ( Basque : Iparralde ( lit. ' the Northern Region ' ), French : Pays basque , Spanish : País Vasco francés ), it is located in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department , in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region , southwestern France .
13-713: It was created in January 2017 by the merger of the former communauté de l'agglomération Côte Basque-Adour, communauté de l'agglomération Sud Pays Basque and eight communautés de communes . Its area is 2968 km. Its population was 312,278 in 2018, including 51,411 in Bayonne and 25,532 in Biarritz. The Communauté d'agglomération du Pays Basque consists of the following 158 communes: 43°18′N 1°13′W / 43.300°N 1.217°W / 43.300; -1.217 This Pyrénées-Atlantiques geographical article
26-530: A communauté de communes is an établissement public de coopération intercommunale (EPCI; public establishment of inter-communal cooperation) formed by several French municipalities that cover a connected territory without enclave. When the Chevènement law regulatory modifications came into force in 1999 communautés de communes already in existence that did not meet the criterion of geographical continuity were left untouched. The communes involved build
39-417: A space of solidarity with a joint project for development, infrastructure building, etc. The communautés de communes are currently funded by local taxes: The taxe professionnelle unique is a modified version of the tax whereby a proportion of the monies levied by the communautés des communes is paid back to the individual communes. The taxe professionnelle is sometimes presented as an unfair burden on
52-1215: A year. New communautés are currently being created at a more rapid rate than in the early years. Nevertheless there are still many rural communes that have not joined one of these groupings. taxe professionnelle Look for Taxe professionnelle on one of Misplaced Pages's sister projects : [REDACTED] Wiktionary (dictionary) [REDACTED] Wikibooks (textbooks) [REDACTED] Wikiquote (quotations) [REDACTED] Wikisource (library) [REDACTED] Wikiversity (learning resources) [REDACTED] Commons (media) [REDACTED] Wikivoyage (travel guide) [REDACTED] Wikinews (news source) [REDACTED] Wikidata (linked database) [REDACTED] Wikispecies (species directory) Misplaced Pages does not have an article with this exact name. Please search for Taxe professionnelle in Misplaced Pages to check for alternative titles or spellings. You need to log in or create an account and be autoconfirmed to create new articles. Alternatively, you can use
65-635: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Communaut%C3%A9 de communes A communauté de communes ( French: [kɔmynote də kɔmyn] , "community of communes ") is a federation of municipalities (communes) in France . It forms a framework within which local tasks are carried out together. It is the least-integrated form of intercommunalité (intercommunality). As of 1 January 2007, there were 2,400 communautés de communes in France (2,391 in metropolitan France and 9 in
78-461: The communauté de communes based on their view of the individual commune's best interests. Once powers and responsibilities have been delegated to the communauté de communes , they shall be exercised collectively through the communauté de communes and may no longer be exercised independently by individual member communes. In 2008 there were 2,393 communautés de communes in France. Of these, roughly 1,000 had been in existence for less than
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104-484: The communautés de communes (2019 population data, 2022 borders) ranged from 105,383 inhabitants ( Communauté de communes Le Grésivaudan , covering the area between Grenoble and Chambéry ), to 3,983 inhabitants (Communauté de communes du Causse de Labastide-Murat, Lot department ). The communauté de communes was created by a statute of the French Parliament enacted on 6 February 1992. The statute
117-410: The overseas departments ), with 26.48 million people living in them. Since then many communautés de communes have been merged or have joined a communauté d'agglomération , a communauté urbaine or a métropole . Whereas there were 2,408 communautés de communes in January 2010 and 1,842 in January 2016, there were only 1,009 communautés de communes left on 1 April 2018. The population of
130-432: The economy or even as a device for exporting jobs outside France, and it has been subject to a series of reforms over the years but central government undertakings to abolish it (and presumably to replace it) have yet to come to fruition. If they do, funding of the communautés de communes will change fundamentally. A communauté de communes is administered by a council (conseil communautaire) made up of delegates from
143-485: The following six policy areas: The communauté de communes may define its own personnel requirements and appoint appropriately qualified employees. In addition, and subject to départemental agreement , it may exercise direct powers and responsibilities in certain social policy areas that are more normally handled at the départemental level. Subject to these requirements, it is for the communes themselves to determine precisely which responsibilities they will delegate to
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#1732766125637156-571: The municipal councils of each member commune . The number of seats allocated to each commune reflects the size of the commune. A member commune must have at least one seat on the council and no individual commune may have more than half of the seats on the conseil communautaire . Article 5214-16 of the CGCT requires the communauté de communes to exercise its responsibilities in the following policy areas: The communauté de communes may also choose to exercise its responsibilities in at least one of
169-514: Was modified by the Chevènement law of 1999. Unlike the communautés d'agglomération and the communautés urbaines , communautés de communes are not subject to a minimum threshold of population to come into existence. The only constraint is geographical continuity. According to the Code général des collectivités territoriales (CGCT; general law over regional administrative structures),
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