Public health institutions may take out loans from credit institutions with a fixed or variable interest rate. The variable rate loans authorised are:
– those whose interest rate varies in application of an indexation clause relating to a standard rate on the interbank market, the eurozone money market or the French government securities market;
– those whose interest rate varies in application of an indexation clause relating to the general price level index or the harmonised consumer price index for the eurozone, as defined inarticle D. 112-1 of the French Monetary and Financial Code.
Public health institutions may not take out loans where the variable interest rate may, during the life of the loan, become more than twice the nominal interest rate applied during the first period of the loan. This provision does not apply, on the one hand, when the variable interest rate is defined as the simple addition of the usual reference rate defined in the second paragraph of this article and a fixed margin expressed in percentage points and, on the other hand, when the interest rate is revised according to one of the indices defined in the third paragraph.