CHAPTER IV : Grants and other revenue allocated by the Local Finance Committee

The rate of subsidy may not be less than 20% of the provisional amount of subsidisable expenditure excluding tax. When they contribute to the financing of investment projects, the dotation d’équipement des territoires ruraux, the dotation politique de la ville, the dotation de soutien à l’investissement local and the dotation de soutien à l’investissement des départements may not represent, used alone or in combination, more than 80% of the provisional…

If, on expiry of a period of two years from notification of the grant, the operation in respect of which it was awarded has not begun to be carried out, the prefect shall declare that his decision to award the grant has lapsed. However, in the case of operations that can be carried out in the short term, the Prefect may set a time limit of less than two years….

When the beneficiary of the subsidy has not declared completion of the operation within four years of the date on which the start of execution was declared, the operation is deemed to have been completed. The Prefect will liquidate the operation under the conditions set out in I of article R. 2334-30 and in the last paragraph of article R. 2334-31. No request for payment from the beneficiary may be…

The Prefect will request the repayment of all or part of the subsidy in the following cases: a) If the allocation of the subsidised investment has been modified without his authorisation before the expiry of the deadline set in the order awarding the subsidy; b) If he is aware that the ceiling provided for in the second paragraph of article R. 2334-27 or of a failure to comply with the…

Article R. 2334-24, c of article R. 2334-26 and articles R. 2334-28 and R. 2334-29 only apply to subsidies granted under the dotation d’équipement des territoires ruraux which have the character of investment subsidies.