Sète Agglopôle Méditerranée

Sète Agglopôle Méditerranée (before September 2017: Communauté d'agglomération du Bassin de Thau)[1] is an intercommunal government structure, in the Hérault département of the Occitanie région, in France.

Sète Agglopôle Méditerranée
Communauté d'agglomération
Location within the Hérault department
CountryFrance
RegionOccitanie
DepartmentHérault
No. of communes14
EstablishedDecember 31, 2002
SeatFrontignan
Government
 • PresidentFrançois Commeinhes
Area
 • Total310.3 km2 (119.8 sq mi)
Population
 (2014)
 • Total125,010
 • Density403/km2 (1,040/sq mi)
Websitewww.agglopole.fr

Composition

Since the former Communauté de communes du Nord du Bassin de Thau was merged into it in January 2017, the agglomeration community consists of 14 communes:[2][3][4]

  1. Balaruc-les-Bains
  2. Balaruc-le-Vieux
  3. Bouzigues
  4. Frontignan
  5. Gigean
  6. Loupian
  7. Marseillan
  8. Mèze
  9. Mireval
  10. Montbazin
  11. Poussan
  12. Sète
  13. Vic-la-Gardiole
  14. Villeveyrac

Jurisdiction

The agglomeration community has four mandatory areas of jurisdiction:

  • Economic development,
  • Land management,
  • Environmental protection,
  • Town political structures.

It is to oversee as well:

  • Organization of common transport problems,
  • Sanitation collection and treatment,
  • Assessment, protection, and economic impact of the local environment,
  • The creation, management and assessment of cultural and sporting organizations across the communes.

Activities

Areas over which the agglomeration community has shared jurisdiction:

  • Ports,
  • Fisheries and shellfish cultivation,
  • Vineyard Cultivation,
  • Wine and Spirits production,
  • Thermal Energy production,
  • Tourism.

References
  1. Cécile Chaigneau (2017-09-14). "La nouvelle agglo Sète Agglopôle Méditerranée construit son projet de territoire" (in French). La Tribune Languedoc-Roussillon. Retrieved 2019-09-17.
  2. Thau Agglo website
  3. BANATIC, Périmètre des EPCI à fiscalité propre. Accessed 2017-06-28.
  4. INSEE


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