European Collectivity of Alsace

The European Collectivity of Alsace (French: Collectivité européenne d'Alsace, pronounced, abbr. CEA) is a territorial collectivity in the Alsace region of France. On 1 January 2021, the territorial collectivities of the Bas-Rhin and Haut-Rhin departments merged to form a new territorial collectivity, but remained part of the Grand Est region. The creation of this new entity was approved by the French Parliament on 25 July 2019 and Law 2019-816, which delimits its powers, was promulgated on 2 August 2019.

Alsatian voters had already voted in favour of the creation of a single territorial collectivity in a referendum in 2013; however, in the less populous of the two departments, Haut-Rhin, a majority of voters had rejected the proposal.

On April 8, 2026, a bill to withdraw the CEA from the Grand Est region and grant it the competences of both a department and a region was passed by the French National Assembly.