The amount of the contribution that, pursuant to the third paragraph of Article L. 1614-8-1 the State pays to each region for the operation of the transferred services is equal to the sum necessary to ensure the balance of the SNCF’s certified account, for the 2000 financial year, relating to the regional passenger services of that region, excluding non-recurring charges and after deduction of the region’s own contribution as determined below:
a) The own contribution of a region which participated in the experiment provided for by Article 67 of the law of 4 February 1995 on regional planning and development corresponds to the amount of financial support from the region to the SNCF, shown in the certified account for the financial year 2000, from which is deducted the allocation from the State to the region for operations in the first year of experimentation, this allocation being updated in 2000 francs by applying the forecast price index of the market gross domestic product.
The amount of the State grant to the region for operations in the first year of the experiment is equal to the difference between the region’s financial assistance to SNCF in the first year of the experiment and the region’s own effort, as determined by the audit prior to the experiment and updated in francs for the first year of the experiment by applying the forecast price index for gross domestic product;
b) For the other regions, the region’s own contribution, mentioned in the first paragraph of this article, corresponds to the region’s financial assistance to the SNCF, shown in the certified account for the 2000 financial year.