Map Viewing Service (WMS) of the dataset: Exercise of GEMAPI jurisdiction in Maine-et-Loire(49)

The management of aquatic environments and flood prevention (GEMAPI) is a compulsory competence entrusted, from 1 January 2018, to public institutions for inter-communal cooperation with own taxation (EPCI-FP: metropolises, urban communities, urban communities, communities of municipalities) by decentralisation laws n°2014-58 of 27 January 2014 (MAPTAM law) and n°2015-991 of 7 August 2015 (Notre Law). These EPCI-FPs may entrust the exercise of all or part of the GEMAPI to a joint union. In order to give preference to the coherent and relevant hydrographic scale approach, the law provides the possibility for municipalities and their own tax groups to entrust GEMAPI competence to: — mixed ‘classical’ watershed unions as they exist today; — EPTBs (public territorial basin establishments): joint unions in charge of coordination missions at the level of watershed groupings and project management of projects of common interest. What is GEMAPI? The GEMAPI competence consists of the tasks referred to in 1°, 2°, 5° and 8° of the I of Article L.211-7 of the Environmental Code, namely: (1) The development of a basin or a fraction of a watershed; (2) the maintenance and development of a watercourse, canal, lake or water body, including access to that watercourse, canal, lake or water body; (5) Defence against floods and against the sea; (8) Protection and restoration of sites, aquatic ecosystems and wetlands and riparian forest formations.