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Salies-de-Béarn, in Communauté de communes du Béarn des Gaves
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Pyrénées-Atlantiques · Nouvelle-Aquitaine · 18,024 residents · Chair: Laurent Sainte-Cluque

Communauté de communes du Béarn des Gaves

€8.4 million spent in 2025.

€466 per resident · Town groupings of the same size: €515

What Communauté de communes du Béarn des Gaves spends, by policy

  • Administration and shared services29%€2.5M

    Bodies do not all file the same costs here: some put all their staff under it.

  • Culture, sport and youth21%€1.8M
  • Economy and trade20%€1.7M
  • Waste, water and environment13%€1.1M
  • Loans: repayments and interest8%€648k
  • Health and social care5%€435k
  • Public safety4%€305k
  • Town planning and housing< 1%€5k

Source: 2025 accounts of Communauté de communes du Béarn des Gaves (DGFiP), by public policy.

Where the money goes

The €8.4M spent in 2025, by who receives it.

  • The intercommunality’s staff38%€3.2M

    Pay and contributions.

  • Companies29%€2.4M

    Purchases, services and works. See the names ↓

  • Associations and other bodies15%€1.3M

    Grants and contributions.

  • Banks8%€648k

    Loan interest and repayments.

  • Public bodies4%€299k

    Compulsory contributions, mostly to the fire and rescue service.

  • Other7%€579k

    Councillors’ allowances, taxes paid, other costs.

Source: 2025 accounts of Communauté de communes du Béarn des Gaves (DGFiP).

Contracts state a maximum amount for their whole term, often several years. That amount differs from what was paid. Purchases, services and works paid to companies by the intercommunality in 2025: €2.4M (its accounts).

13 contracts signed in 2025 · €1.2M before tax

Why this total differs from the €2.4M of purchases, services and works paid to companies

These are the amounts of the contracts signed in the year, over their whole length, not what was paid. The money paid in a year also goes to older contracts and to purchases too small to be published (under €40,000 excl. VAT). For a framework agreement, the amount is a ceiling.

Investment and works

€1.1M of capital spending in 2025 (building, renovation, equipment), €63 per resident. Town groupings of the same size: €78.

Click a building site to see the contract

Largest works contracted since 2023, among published contracts. Amounts planned at signature, often spread over several years.

On top of that, €51k paid to other bodies for their own equipment (towns, intercommunalities, associations…).

Source: 2025 accounts of Communauté de communes du Béarn des Gaves (DGFiP), by public policy.

Revenue and financing

Revenue: €8.6M · borrowing: €960k · spending: €8.4M.

Breakdown of resources

  • Taxes (business and household taxes, VAT share)44%€4.2M
  • State and other contributions19%€1.8M
  • Users and rents12%€1.2M
  • Capital receipts: grants for works, VAT refunds, sales of property…12%€1.1M
  • Other receipts3%€289k
  • Borrowing10%€960k

Source: OFGL, 2025 accounts of the main budget.

Debt and taxes

€457 of debt per resident

Town groupings of the same size: €311

5.5 years of savings to repay it

€106 of local taxes per resident

Town groupings of the same size: €68

2025 accounts. Debt and taxes: OFGL, consolidated (main and side budgets). Per resident: amount divided by the population (Insee). “Town groupings of the same size”: median of the 303 town groupings of 15,000 to 25,000 residents.

The levels above Communauté de communes du Béarn des Gaves

Spending per resident in 2025, and what each level pays for.

  • IntercommunalityCommunauté de communes du Béarn des GavesWaste, water, urban transport, economic development
    €466 per resident
  • DépartementPyrénées-AtlantiquesMinimum income, elderly and disability care, middle schools, county roads
    €1,203 per resident
  • RegionNouvelle-AquitaineHigh schools, regional trains, training, business support
    €519 per resident

Each amount is what the body spends per resident, from its accounts (DGFiP). Do not add them up: part of the money passes from one body to another.

Who is part of Communauté de communes du Béarn des Gaves

Understanding these figures

Who does what

The intercommunality collects and treats waste, often runs water and sanitation, organises urban transport, and pays part of its revenue back to its member towns.

Official table of responsibilities (July 2025)

Why the levels are not added up

The same euro can appear twice: once when a region or a département pays a grant, again when the town spends it. Each page shows its own body’s spending.

Where these figures come from

Spending: the accounts of the main budget published by the DGFiP, by public policy. Revenue, debt and taxes: OFGL. Contracts: published contract data (DECP), amounts planned at signing.

Elected officials and staff of Communauté de communes du Béarn des Gaves: to report a figure to correct or add context, write to Qipu.

Page edited by Qipu, independent of Communauté de communes du Béarn des Gaves · Sources and method

Accounts 2025 (DGFiP, OFGL). The method · See the source