The minimum operating grant is distributed among the metropolitan départements that meet the conditions for its allocation:
1° For 30% of its amount, in proportion to the length of the road classified in the departmental public domain assessed at 1 January of the year preceding the distribution, the length of road located in mountain areas being affected by a multiplying coefficient of 2 ;
2° For 30% of its amount, in proportion to the ratio between the average financial potential per square kilometre of all non-urban metropolitan departments and the financial potential per square kilometre of each beneficiary department;
3° For 40% of its amount, in proportion to the difference between the department’s per capita financial potential and the average per capita financial potential of all non-urban metropolitan departments of each beneficiary department.