Actualité des réformes territoriales en France Actuality of territorial reforms in France By dr christophe Chabrot Senior lecturer, law faculty of lyon 2 university, lyon – France christophe.chabrot@univ-lyon2.fr

Distribution of municipalities by size

101 departments

13 regions in metropole (18 with overseas regions)

An intensive legal reforms Laws of décember 31, 1966 on urban communities, of July 16, 1971, on fusions of municipalities Law of july 5, 1972, on creation of regions, of january 10, 1980, on local tax system Laws of modern decentralization of march 2, 1982 and January 7, 1983 (and more till 1988) Law of February 6, 1992, on Territorial administration of Republic Law of February 4, 1995, on Territory development Laws of June 25 and July 12 1999 on Local cooperation Law of February 27, 2002, on Local democracy Constitutional revision on March 28, 2003, and laws of August 1st 2003 on experimentation and on local referendum, law of July 29, 2004 on local financial autonomy, law of August 13 2004 on Local responsibilities, Law RCT of december 16, 2010 on local collectivities reform Law MAPTAM of January 27, 2014 on Metropolis Law January 16, 2015 on fusion of regions Law of March 16, 2015, on fusion of municipalities Law NOTRe of August 7, 2015 on new organisation of the territorial Republic Law of February 28, 2017, on Paris statute … Constitutionnal reform in 2019 (experimentation, differenciation…)

Main Local cooperation public establishment (EPCI)

French Constitution, art.72 al.1 : Art.72 : “The territorial collectivities of the Republic are the communes, the departments, the regions, the special status communities and the overseas collectivities governed by Article 74. Any other territorial collectivity is created by law, eventually in place of one or more communities mentioned in this paragraph”.

Overseas Department and Regions (5)

Overseas collectivities (5)

Nouvelle-Calédonie

Overseas collectivities (5)

President project June 2016 / Final map 2017

Thank you. Köszönöm a figyelmet. C. Chabrot, Budapest, November 27th 2018