The National Federation of Licensing Communities and Regulators (FNCCR)

Providing effective and easily accessible public services to all citizens is the challenge of the State and local authorities. Unfortunately, accomplishing this mission is not easy, especially in the field of networked public services.

In this sector, actors are facing numerous difficulties, which motivated the opening of the market to competition over the last few years. This also required the creation of bodies to regulate and support local authorities in network activities.

This is how the National Federation of Licensing Communities and Regimes (FNCCR) was created in 1934. SirEnergies gives you an update on the history, organization, missions and actors of the FNCCR.

FNCCR: Presentation of the association

La National Federation of Licensing Communities and Regulators is an organization created according to the precepts of the 1901 law. In this association, members pool their skills and efforts for a non-profit purpose.

For the FNCCR, community and national interests are targeted. Since its creation in 1934 to date, this association has more than 800 members. Among them, we mainly find Territorial authorities and The structures who are involved in the provision of certain public services. These services concern the field of energy, the water cycle and digital technology.

FNCCR: A bit of history

After its creation, the FNCCR worked for the control of demand and the satisfaction of consumer needs when it comes to energy. Its first action was to help the State recover the ownership of private companies that are grantees of public services in the field of electricity and gas.

This change, which took place in 1946, allowed local authorities to maintain their power to exploit energy resources. They also maintain their status as project owners in projects to build their distribution networks. In 1982, local authorities saw their prerogatives increase thanks to the decentralization promoted by the FNCCR.

In 1992, the FNCCR succeeded in An agreement with EDF for the creation of a new model of dealership contracts. That same year, the organization established a department that will deal with issues related to the water cycle.

In 1994, it reached an agreement with Gaz de France to create a new model of concession contract. This year, she also created the Association for Concessions Expertise (AEC), which has been known since 2011 as a cooperative society for collective interest.

The year 2007 will remain a major breakthrough in the life of the FNCCR thanks to the complete opening of the electricity and gas markets to competition. Since then, the association has continued to expand its skills through the creation of new centres of intervention such as community training and non-collective public sanitation services.

Renewable energies and energy demand management (MDE), electronic communications, heating and cooling networks as well as public lighting are also part of its areas of intervention.

The organization of the National Federation of Licensing Communities and Regulators

The FNCCR brings together communities of various types. Among them, some entrust the supply of public electricity and gas services to concession companies.

Others provide these public services themselves or do so through public authorities, mixed economy companies or user cooperatives. La FNCCR supports these various members to achieve better performances through various consultation and exchange bodies.

These allow local authorities to pool their ideas and share their experiences to help the entire association move forward.

Every 3 years, the FNCCR organizes A national convention decentralized, during which it compares the approaches of its actors Facing the challenges of the energy sector.

This congress also offers the opportunity to assess the evolution of the association's activities and the effectiveness of its actions over the past years. Within the FNCCR, decisions are taken by a general meeting and by the board of directors. The latter consists of 85 members who are elected for a term of 3 years. The executive committee of the association is composed of:

• Of a president,
• From an associate vice-president,
• Of six senior vice-presidents,
• From a spokesperson,
• From a secretary,
• From a treasurer.

The FNCCR is equipped with 5 orientation tips who propose solution approaches in each field of intervention. There are also 16 commissions that analyze the competencies of the organization according to various themes.

The missions of the FNCCR

The main mission of the FNCCR is toassist local authorities in the activities of networked local public services.

She also works for market regulation in the energy, water cycle, digital and waste sectors.

In the field of energy, the FNCCR brings its skills in the distribution of electricity and gas, as well as in the management of heating and cooling networks. She brings her expertise in issues relating to renewables, managing demand...

The association is also involved in projects to install charging station stations for electric and natural gas vehicles.

With regard to the water cycle, the National Federation of Licensing Communities and Regulators is responsible for the distribution of drinking water. It participates in wastewater treatment work as well as in non-collective sanitation.

Land use planning, waste management and recovery, e-administration and IT sharing are also services that concern the FNCCR.

The federation body acts as an opinion relay by conveying the urgings of municipal unions and the various members to the public authorities.

It ensures legal, legislative and techno-economic monitoring in the energy, water, digital and sanitation sectors. The FNCCR also insures the publication of thematic guides for the benefit of local authorities as well as the training of actors in its areas of expertise.

Members of the National Federation of Licensing Communities and Regulators

The FNCCR is open to all public entities. Its members include municipalities, urban communities and urban communities.

There are also communities of municipalities, unions of municipalities, mixed unions and territorial authorities of cities and departments. Local public institutions that are responsible for the distribution of electricity, gas, drinking water and telecommunications services are important members of the federation.

Especially in the field of electricity and gas, almost all the energy organizing authorities (AOE) are part of the FNCCR.

In the water sector, the federation has more than 500 communities or specialized associations. The latter represent a population that exceeds 51 million inhabitants.

As far as digital technology is concerned, the member groups are of the order of a hundred for a population of more than 50 million inhabitants.

Memberships to the National Federation of Licensing and Regulatory Authorities are always open to local authorities, groups and eligible companies. The FNCCR gives all the membership details on its site and makes it easy to obtain an information request form.

FNCCR Congress - Rennes September 2022

The FNCCR is organizing its 38^E triennial conference from September 27 to 29, 2022, at the Rennes Convention Center (Couvent des Jacobins). More than 2,000 local elected officials and decision-makers are expected.

On the program of this event: some 60 conferences (plenary sessions, round tables, workshops), an exhibition bringing together more than 180 structures as well as a dozen technical visits organized by local members of the federation!

The FNCCR is An association of local authorities and local network public service companies. Its mission is to support, train and represent actors in the field of energy, water, digital technology, and waste management. It fights for better control of the provision of public services in networks and for the satisfaction of collective interests. Let's see how the transition to green electricity will be managed.