The credits from the allocation referred to in Article L. 2334-32 are allocated by the State representative in the department to the beneficiaries mentioned in article L. 2334-33, in the form of grants to carry out investments, as well as projects in the economic, social, environmental, sporting and tourist fields or promoting the development or maintenance of public services in rural areas. The grant must not have the effect of having all or part of the running costs covered, mainly staff remuneration costs, maintenance and supply costs and miscellaneous running costs relating to the authority’s remit, with the exception of those granted as initial, non-renewable aid when an operation is carried out. In the event of the extension or merger of public establishments with their own tax status, the new public establishment for inter-communal cooperation with their own tax status formed on 1st January of the year of allocation may benefit from the grant if it is the offspring of at least one public establishment for inter-communal cooperation with their own tax status that is a beneficiary under the conditions set out in the same article L. 2334-33.
The State representative in the department takes into account the ecological nature of the projects when setting the grant rates.
The first paragraph of this article applies to subsidies awarded to project owners designated in a contract pursuant to the penultimate paragraph of article L. 2334-33.
These subsidies must be notified, for at least 80% of the amount of credits allocated to the department for the current financial year, during the first half of the calendar year.
Before 31 July of the current financial year, the list of operations that have received a grant as well as the amount of the projects and the grant awarded by the State are published on the official website of the State in the department, in an open and easily reusable format. If this list is amended or supplemented between this publication and the end of the financial year, a corrective or supplementary list is published in the same way before 30 January of the following financial year.