Territorial collectivity

A collectivité territoriale (French; completely collectivités territorial de la République, before the constitutional amendment of 28 March 2003 also collectivités locales ) is the French form of the local authority. It is a public corporation that owns the territorial jurisdiction on a spatially defined part of the French territory. This jurisdiction includes the inhabitants, with the voting population ( citizens) are full members of the statutory body. The collectivité territoriale characterized by its relationship to a territory in the form of sovereignty in the context of the tasks assigned to all persons residing in their territory, as well as the residence (or office for legal persons ) of its members, which in itself their territory is from. Thus it corresponds to the German authority

The territorial administrative organization is regulated in France mainly in the Code général des collectivités territorial ( CGCT ). Collectivités territorial de la République are:

In the fields of Paris (municipality / department) as well as Guadeloupe, Martinique, French Guiana and Réunion ( the department / region ) coexist per two congruent authorities with different responsibilities.

No authorities of the Republic are in particular:

• The districts ( arrondissements municipaux ) of the 3 municipalities with special status;
• The approximately 4,000 cantons;
• 342 arrondissements;
• Associations of municipalities: Communauté de communes, Communauté d' agglomÃ, Communauté urbaine;
• 3 of the Overseas Territories: New Caledonia ( in the literature, on labels such as collectivité sui generis - " body of its own kind " - dodged ), the French Southern and Antarctic Territories and Clipperton Island;
• The unitary state itself