Communauté urbaine Caen la Mer

• The creation, development, maintenance and management of areas of industrial, commercial, services, handicrafts, tourism, ports, and airport activities (e.g. Port of Caen, Caen – Carpiquet Airport) in the interests of the community
• Economic development activities recognized as of community interest with the SEM Normandy development and the agency Synergia.

• Planning Territorial Coherence and master plan
• Design and production of ZAC recognized developments in the community interest
• Organisation of Urban Transport. In this context, the community is associated with the General Council of Calvados in a joint union called Viacités, the transport organizing authority of the agglomeration, to whom it delegates its public transport network - the bus and tram network Twisto.

• the Local Habitat Program (PLH), signed in 2003, for the annual construction of 1,400 housing units, including 400 for social security, until 2010
• Housing policy in the community interest
• Actions and financial aid for social housing recognized as being in the community interest
• Reserve land for the implementation of the EU's social policy for a balanced habitat
• Actions, by operations of community interest, for housing for the poor
• Improvement of the housing stock of the community

Contractual arrangements for urban development, local development and the economic and social integration of community interests (e.g. the City Contract and Urban Contract for social cohesion, the Grand City project and ANRU convention, and the local integration program for the economy (PLIE)

• Local measures in the community interest to prevent delinquency
• Counselling to prevent delinquency and local security measures.

• Creation or development and maintenance of roads recognized to be in the community interest
• Creation or development and management of parking areas recognized to be in the community interest.

The community has all the skills of the member communes to monitor, collect and treat wastewater through two stations.

• Protection and enhancement of the environment:

Fight against air pollution

Fight against nuisance noise

Collect and eliminate or use waste from households and other waste through the management of five civic recycling centres.

• Security and control of fire:

Participation in the Fire and Rescue service (SDIS)

• Secretariat of the security committee of the town
• Actions for higher education:

Actions and research on public and private higher education in the community interest.

• Telecommunications network:

Creation of a telecommunications network available for all

• Fight against floods
• Welcoming of vagrants
• Planning and Land Management.
• Culture and Sports: construction, development, maintenance and management of cultural and sports facilities recognized to be in the community interest

the swimming pools at the Aquatic Stadia in the Grace of God, the Chemin-Vert, and the Montmorency districts, and the ice-skating rink.

• Libraries: at Caen, Hérouville, and Ifs;
• Theatres: Champ Exquisite at Blainville and Jean-Vilar at Ifs;
• Cinemas: Le Lux and Le Café des images
• Conservatory and the musical season of the Caen Orchestra
• School of Fine Arts and Media of Caen
• Management of Union House
• Suburban parks and rural areas:

development and management of suburban parks in the agglomeration

development of rural areas within the jurisdiction of the communes

• Littoral

maintenance and management of angle parking areas and municipal government levees.

find means to supervise and monitor places of swimming and water activities, subject to the exercise of police powers by the mayors

monitoring and maintenance of beaches subject to the exercise of police powers by the mayors

• Development and promotional activities in the community interest such as:

Provision to the member communes of means to take Community action (especially in the context of Article L5211-56 of the General Code for Local Authorities)