Sète Agglopôle Méditerranée (before September 2017: Communauté d'agglomération du Bassin de Thau) is an intercommunal government structure, in the Hérault département of the Occitanie région, in France. Its seat is in Frontignan.CA Sète Agglopôle Méditerranée (N° SIREN : 200066355), BANATIC, accessed 4 November 2024. Its area is 310.3 km2. Its population was 125,325 in 2018, of which 43,686 were in Sète and 22,731 in Frontignan.Comparateur de territoire, INSEE, accessed 6 April 2022. The Communauté d'agglomération du Bassin de Thau was established in December 2002.CA du Bassin de Thau (N° SIREN : 243400827), BANATIC. Retrieved 12 December 2022. The former Communauté de communes du Nord du Bassin de Thau was merged into it in January 2017, and its name was changed to Sète Agglopôle Méditerranée in September 2017.
Composition The agglomeration community consists of 14 communes:Les 14 communes, Sète agglopôle méditerranéeIntercommunalité : Communauté d'agglomération Sète Agglopôle Méditerranée, INSEE
Balaruc-les-Bains Balaruc-le-Vieux Bouzigues Frontignan Gigean Loupian Marseillan Mèze Mireval Montbazin Poussan Sète Vic-la-Gardiole Villeveyrac
Jurisdiction The agglomeration community has four mandatory areas of jurisdiction:
Economic development, Land management, Environmental protection, Town political structures.
It also oversees: 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.
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External links Official website