Pornic Agglo Pays de Retz is a French agglomeration community, created on 1 January 2017 and located in the Loire-Atlantique department and the Pays de la Loire region.

Historical After several months of negotiations, the community advisers of the two community of communes of Pornic and Cœur Pays de Retz decided to merge them on 13 June 2016 within an urban community called "Pornic Agglo Pays de Retz".

The agglomeration community was created on 1 January 2017 by prefectural decree of 9 November 2016. On 5 January 2017, during its inaugural meeting, the community council elected the mayor of Pornic, Jean-Michel Brard, as president of the agglomeration community. In 2024, Pascale Briand was elected as president of Pornic Agglo Pays de Retz and was subsequently relected on 6 April 2026 following the 2026 Municipales elections.

On 1 January 2020, the municipality of Villeneuve-en-Retz left the and joined Pornic Agglo Pays de Retz.

Community territory Geography Located in the southwestern department of Loire-Atlantique, Pornic intercommunal Agglo Retz includes 15 towns and has an area of .

Composition

The agglomeration community includes 15 municipalities:Intercommunalité : Communauté d'agglomération Pornic Agglo Pays de Retz, INSEE

+ List of inter-municipal municipalitiesname INSEE code Inhabitants Area (km2) Population (last legal pop. ) Density ( inhab./km2 )Pornic (headquarters) 44131 Pornicais 94,18 15 570 (2018) 165La Bernerie-en-Retz 44012 Bernerians 6,093 3,016 (2018) 495Chaumes-en-Retz 44005 Calmetiens 76,556 6,827 (2018) 89Chauvé 44038 Chauvéens 40,98 2,892 (2018) 71Cheix-en-Retz 44039 Cheixois 8,34 1,086 (2018) 130Les Moutiers-en-Retz 44106 Monastériens 9,58 1,703 (2018) 178La Plaine-sur-Mer 44126 Plainais 16,39 4,369 (2018) 267Port-Saint-Père 44133 Port-Saint-Périns 32,57 2,911 (2018) 89Préfailles 44136 Préfaillais 4,88 1,242 (2018) 255Rouans 44145 Rouansais 37,73 3,015 (2018) 80Saint-Hilaire-de-Chaléons 44164 Chaléonnais 34,98 2,304 (2018) 66Saint-Michel-Chef-Chef 44182 Michelois 25,12 5,173 (2018) 206Sainte-Pazanne 44186 Pazennais 41,56 6,889 (2018) 166Villeneuve-en-Retz 44021 Villeretziens 73,68 4,911 (2018) 67Vue 44220 Véziens 19,51 1,626 (2018) 83

Demography

Administration Seat The headquarters of the urban community is in Pornic, 2 rue du Docteur Ange Guépin.

Political trends + Mayors of the intercommunality ( 1 July 2021) Commune Mayor Etiquette (Party) Chaumes-en-Retz Jacky Drouet DVG Chauvé Pierre Martin DVD Cheix-en-Retz Luc Normand DVD La Bernerie-en-Retz Hubert Tregou SE La Plaine-sur-Mer Séverine Marchand SE Les Moutiers-en-Retz LR Pornic Antoine Hubert DVC Port-Saint-Père Gaëtan Léauté DVD Préfailles Claude Caudal DVG Rouans Cyril Favreau SE Saint-Hilaire-de-Chaléons Françoise Rousseau SE Saint-Michel-Chef-Chef Maxime Leroux Rondineau SE Sainte-Pazanne Bruno Clavier SE Villeneuve-en-Retz Yves Blanchard SE Vue Nadège Placé SE

Community council The 42 permanent advisers are thus distributed according to common law as follows: Number of delegates Communes 11 Pornic 5 Chaumes-en-Retz 4 Sainte-Pazanne 3 La Plaine-sur-Mer, Saint-Michel-Chef-Chef, Villeneuve-en-Retz 2 Chauvé, La Bernerie-en-Retz, Port-Saint-Père, Rouans 1 Cheix-en-Retz, Les Moutiers-en-Retz, Préfailles, Saint-Hilaire-de-Chaléons, Vue

Elections

The agglomeration community is administered by its made up in 2020 of 42 community councillors, who are municipal councillors representing each of the member municipalities.

List of presidents + List of successive presidents Period Name Etiquette Capacity 5 January 2017 16 July 2024 Jean-Michel Brard DVD Mayor of Pornic17 July 20242032Pascale Briand Les RépublicainsMayor of Les Moutiers-en-Retz

Powers The intercommunality exercises the powers which have been transferred to it by the member municipalities, under the conditions defined by the general code of local authorities .

Tax regime and budget The agglomeration community is a public establishment of inter-municipal cooperation with its own tax system.

In order to finance the exercise of its powers, the intercommunality collects the single professional tax [ 3 ] (FPU) - which succeeded the single professional tax (TPU) - and ensures an equalization of resources between the residential municipalities and those with of activity zones.

Workforce In order to implement its obligations, the inter-municipal association employs 200 agents.

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