Section 1: Rural equipment support

The following may benefit from technical assistance made available by the department, instituted by article L. 3232-1-1: 1° Communes considered as rural pursuant to I of article D. 3334-8-1, excluding those whose per capita financial potential, as defined by article L. 2334-4, was, for the year preceding the request for assistance, greater than 1.3 times the average per capita financial potential of municipalities with fewer than 5,000 inhabitants; 2° Public…

This provision is the subject of an agreement between the department and the commune or public establishment for inter-communal cooperation that has requested to benefit from it. This agreement sets out the content, procedures and remuneration as well as the obligations of each of the parties.

I. – The technical assistance made available by the department consists of helping the municipalities and public establishments mentioned in article R. 3232-1 in: 1° Identifying the players and skills required to carry out their projects; 2° Organising their projects from a legal, administrative and financial point of view; 3° Seeking public funding and submitting applications for the funding required to carry out their projects; 4° Organising the technical aspects…

A joint order of the minister responsible for the environment and the minister responsible for local authorities defines the various cost elements to be used for remuneration for the service of making technical assistance available as well as the methods of charging for this. An order of the president of the departmental council defines the scale of remuneration applicable in the department. This order is published in the department’s official…

The technical assistance is monitored and evaluated by a committee which draws up an annual activity report made available to the public in dematerialised form by the department. The committee includes, in particular, representatives of the beneficiary municipalities and public establishments for inter-municipal cooperation, a representative of the departmental prefect, a representative of the water agency and, if applicable, a representative of the relevant territorial public basin establishment(s) in the…