TITLE I

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…

To determine the additional allocation required to renew the rolling stock fleet provided for in the fourth paragraph of Article L. 1614-8-1, rolling stock which, having been the subject of depreciation allowances entered in the account of these services or having been made available to these services, was actually used during the year 2000 for the needs of these services, shall be deemed to be assigned to the services transferred…

The amount of the grant corresponding to compensation for social tariffs implemented at the request of the State, provided for in the fifth paragraph of Article L. 1614-8-1, is equal to the amount of the contribution for the same purpose as shown in the SNCF revenue account for the 2001 financial year for the regional passenger services of each region.

The total amount of compensation owed by the State to each region on the date of the transfer is set by joint order of the Minister for the Interior, the Minister for the Budget and the Minister for Transport, following the opinion of the regional council and the opinion of the consultative commission on the evaluation of charges referred to in Article L. 1614-3. The Regional Council is deemed to…

Without prejudice to the provisions of the eighth and ninth paragraphs of Article L. 1614-8-1, the compensation paid each year by the State is revised when a reorganisation of regional passenger services is made necessary by a change to services of national interest linked to the commissioning of a new infrastructure or to a modernisation operation that has been the subject of a ministerial approval decision. The revision is based…