Impacts of Legislative Developments on Local Authorities' Economic Competences

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[...] Thus, it is necessary to ask what are the impacts of the recent legislative evolutions in the matter of redistribution of competences of the territorial collectivities in the economic field? The redistribution of competences by the NOTRe and MAPTAM laws of the collectivities in the economic field has led to a reduction of competences on the one hand, of which the regions are the big winners at the expense of the departments. The intercommunalities find themselves in an ambivalent situation. [...]

[...] The path of consequence of a reduction in skills on the other side of the balance A. The intercommunalities partly victim of the redistribution of competence - Implementation of process of intercommunal cooperation (under different forms of syndicates) : encouragements to the creation of intercommunalities and communities of communes with the NOTRe law = beneficial from the point of view of the central State but may be a hindrance for the municipalities because synonym of many constraints - The creation of metropolises with special status weakened intercommunalities - Limit imposed on interco : participation authorized regime set by the region = action always subordinate to the control and supervision of a higher authority B. [...]

[...] The region as a big winner of the decentralization laws - Regions have seen their economic competences develop significantly. - Had some competences of participation in the capital of mixed companies or regional interest missions. - Today beneficiaries of European funds and their skills are reinforced. Where one might have thought that the the abolition of the VAT would have the consequence of reducing their skills it's the opposite, the abolition of the VAT is symbolic the region remains a major economic actor in the sense that it distributes public aid, grants aid to struggling businesses for example II. [...]

[...] What are the impacts of recent legislative developments on the redistribution of competences of local authorities in the economic field? - Introduction and detailed plan The economic domain is composed of many actors. While most of the state's prerogatives in the field of economic law are exercised by the central power, local authorities nevertheless have certain competences in the economic domain. The The territorial collectivities refer to the decentralized authorities of the State, including notably the regions, departments, and municipalities. [...]