CHAPTER IV : Compensation for skills transfers

Financial compensation for the investment costs of ports transferred pursuant to the first paragraph of Article 6 of Law no. 83-663 of 22 July 1983 supplementing Law no. 83-8 of 7 January 1983 relating to the division of powers between communes, départements, regions and the State is included in the general decentralisation allowance of the départements concerned. The total amount of compensation received by the departments concerned corresponds to the…

As from 1 January 2002, the costs transferred to the regions as a result of the transfer of powers provided for in Article 21-1 of the loi n° 82-1153 du 30 décembre 1982 d’orientation des transports intérieurs’ are compensated under the conditions set by the articles L. 1614-1 to L. 1614-3, subject to the provisions of this article. The compensation for the transfer of competences mentioned in the previous paragraph,…

The appropriations previously entered in the State budget for the establishment and implementation of town planning documents and easements and which correspond to the transferred powers are the subject of a special contribution within the general decentralisation grant. From 2013, this special contribution is increased by the amount of financial compensation for the costs mentioned in Article 17 of Law no. 83-8 of 7 January 1983 relating to the division…

The appropriations previously included in the State budget for the construction, equipment and operation of municipal and inter-municipal libraries and the equipment of departmental libraries are the subject of a special contribution within the general decentralisation grant. They are distributed by the State representative between the départements, communes and groups of local authorities carrying out investment work and non-permanent operating expenditure in respect of the powers they exercise by virtue…

The operating expenses of departmental libraries, made the responsibility of the departments, are compensated under the conditions provided by articles L. 1614-1 to L. 1614-3. However, the appropriations from the general decentralisation grant corresponding to the expenditure borne by the State, in the year prior to the transfer of powers, in respect of movable and material equipment linked to the bringing into service of new buildings, the maintenance of buildings,…