1. 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

3. Distribution of municipalities by size

4. 101 departments

5. 13 regions in metropole (18 with overseas regions)

7. 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 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 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…)

8. Main Local cooperation public establishment (EPCI)

9. 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”.

10. Overseas Department and Regions (5)

11. Overseas collectivities (5)

12. Nouvelle-Calédonie

13. Overseas collectivities (5)

17. President project June 2016 / Final map 2017

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