Departmental collectivity (french: collectivité départementale) was a legal designation used to describe the particular status of
French overseas collectivity
The French overseas collectivities ('' collectivité d'outre-mer'' or ''COM'') are first-order administrative divisions of France, like the French regions, but have a semi-autonomous status. The COMs include some former French overseas colon ...
of
Mayotte
Mayotte (; french: Mayotte, ; Shimaore language, Shimaore: ''Maore'', ; Bushi language, Kibushi: ''Maori'', ), officially the Department of Mayotte (french: Département de Mayotte), is an Overseas France, overseas Overseas departments and regi ...
between 2001 and 2011. The term is used to indicate that Mayotte at the time was similar to a
French department
In the administrative divisions of France, the department (french: département, ) is one of the three levels of government under the national level ("territorial collectivities"), between the administrative regions and the communes. Ninety- ...
but not yet an
overseas department
The overseas departments and regions of France (french: départements et régions d'outre-mer, ; ''DROM'') are departments of France that are outside metropolitan France, the European part of France. They have exactly the same status as mainlan ...
. The term was made official by Law No. 2001-616 on 11 July 2001.
[ Hugues Beringer, "La collectivité départementale de Mayotte: principaux aspects de la loi statutaire no. 2001-616 du 11 juillet 2001," ''Revue juridique et politique'' (2002), 56 no. 3, p382–391.][Mayotte on "Statoids"](_blank)
/ref> Mayotte became a department in 2011.
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