Section 3: Financing Corsica's sustainable development plan

For the establishment of the sustainable development plan for Corsica referred to in Article L. 4424-9, the special contribution from the general decentralisation grant provided for in article L. 4425-27 is allocated to the Corsican local authority in the form of a grant comprising two parts, the first intended to compensate for expenditure on studies and management of the operation and the second intended to compensate for material expenditure.

The amount of the grant and that of each of the shares defined in article R. 4425-7 are set on a flat-rate basis by joint order of the Minister of the Interior, the Minister for the Budget and the Minister for Town Planning. An order issued in the same manner also sets the amount of each of the payments to be made in accordance with the procedures defined in articles…

The grant allocated to the Corsican local authority is taken from the remaining 10% of the special assistance mentioned in the last paragraph of article R. 1614-42.

The part of the grant corresponding to expenditure on studies and the management of the operation will be the subject of two payments at the request of the President of the Corsican Executive Council, the first as soon as the studies relating to the sustainable development plan have been undertaken and the second when the public enquiry provided for in Article L. 123-1 of the Environment Code.

The portion of the grant corresponding to material expenditure is paid in two instalments, the first when the draft plan is adopted by the Corsican Executive Council and the second after the sustainable development plan has been approved by the Corsican Assembly.