Subsection 1: Common provisions

For the purposes of article L. 1613-6, any localised event occurring in mainland France that causes damage to the property listed in Article R. 1613-4 and belonging to the local authorities or groupings mentioned in Article L. 1613-6 totalling more than €150,000 excluding tax. Subsidies are charged to the budget allocation mentioned in article L. 1613-6. When the total amount of damage, assessed in accordance with the conditions set out…

The following are eligible for the compensation mentioned in Article L. 1613-6, under the conditions set out in Article R. 1613-5, the following assets: 1° Road infrastructure and engineering structures; 2° Assets ancillary to roads required to make traffic safer; 3° Dykes; 4° Water distribution and drainage networks ; 5° Water treatment and lifting stations; 6° Forest fire defence tracks; 7° Parks, gardens and wooded areas belonging to the public…

Only work to repair damage to the assets listed in article R. 1613-4 and urgent work to restore the flow capacity of watercourses, for which the project management is provided by the local authority or grouping concerned, may give rise to the award of a grant by the endowment. The basis for the grant is equal to the amount, excluding taxes, of the work to repair the damage to the…

The basis for the grant is equal to the amount of the damage where the property is not insured at the date of the event. Where the property is insured at the date of the event and the applicant local authority or grouping is aware, at the time the grant application is submitted, of the amount of compensation due to it, the basis for the grant is net of this…

Within two months of a climatic or geological event as specified in article R. 1613-3, the local authorities and groupings concerned send their grant application to the State representative in the department. After this deadline, the application is inadmissible.

The State representative assesses the amount of damage whose repair is eligible for the allocation defined in article L. 1613-6. After making an initial assessment of the damage, the State representative may request, within seventy-five days of the event, the support of a mission from the General Inspectorate for the Environment and Sustainable Development. This mission is compulsory when the total estimated amount of damage exceeds one million euros excluding…

When the total amount of subsidies likely to be granted has been determined, the distribution of subsidies between local authorities and groupings in the same département is established on the basis of maximum subsidy rates applicable as follows: 1° A rate of 80% when the amount of damage suffered is greater than 50% of their total budget; 2° A rate of 40% when the amount of damage suffered is between…

As an exception to the provisions of article R. 1613-9, the amount of the State grant may, by way of exception, bring the amount of direct public aid up to 100% of the pre-tax amount of the damage caused by the same event. An advance may be paid when the operation begins. Its amount may represent up to 20% of the estimated amount of the grant. This amount may be…

The order awarding the grant includes, for each of the operations, the information provided for in article R. 2334-26. The provisions of articles R. 2334-24 and R. 2334-28 to R. 2334-31, with the exception of II of article R. 2334-30, are applicable to the allocation for each of the operations subsidised or for which a subsidy application has been made. For their application, and where necessary, the reference to communes…