French General Code of Local Authorities
In forceThe following are eligible for the dotation d'équipement des territoires ruraux:
1° From 2017, the following are eligible for the dotation d'équipement des territoires ruraux:
a) Public establishments for inter-communal cooperation with their own tax status in metropolitan departments that do not form a contiguous and unenclosed area of more than 75,000 inhabitants around one or more central municipalities with more than 20,000 inhabitants and whose population density is greater than or equal to 150 inhabitants per square kilometre, taking into account the population from the most recent census;
b) Public establishments for inter-municipal cooperation with their own tax status in the overseas departments and the Department of Mayotte that do not form a whole of more than 150,000 inhabitants in one piece and without an enclave around one or more central municipalities of more than 85,000 inhabitants and whose population density is greater than or equal to 150 inhabitants per square kilometre, taking into account the population resulting from the last census.
1° bis Public establishments for inter-municipal cooperation eligible in 2010 for the global equipment grant for communes or the rural development grant, as well as mixed syndicates created in application of article L. 5711-1 and the syndicates of communes created in application of Article L. 5212-1 whose population does not exceed 60,000;
2° Communes:
a) Whose population does not exceed 2,000 in metropolitan departments and 3,500 in overseas departments;
b) Whose population exceeds 2,000 in the départements of mainland France and 3,500 in the départements of overseas France and does not exceed 20,000 in the départements of mainland France and 35,000 in the départements of overseas France and whose financial potential per inhabitant is less than 1.3 times the average financial potential per inhabitant of all the communes whose population exceeds 2,000 and does not exceed 20,000 inhabitants ;
c) The communes of Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon benefit from the grant;
d) The new communes resulting from the transformation of public establishments for inter-communal cooperation eligible for the equipment grant for rural territories the year prior to their transformation or resulting from the merger of communes one of which was eligible for this grant the year prior to their merger are deemed to meet, for the first three financial years from their creation, the population conditions mentioned in a and b.
By way of derogation, when the grant is part of a contract signed between an eligible municipality or grouping and the State representative, the project owners designated by the contract may be beneficiaries of the grant.
For the application of this article, unless otherwise stated, the population to be taken into account is that defined in article L. 2334-2.
