Question 14510 — local authorities

Summary

Mr. Fabien Matras questions the Minister of Territorial Cohesion and Relations with Local Authorities on the adequacy of the criteria for awarding equipment for rural territories (DETR) with the geographical and economic reality of the territories. Resulting from the merger of the rural development grant and the overall municipal equipment grant, the objective was to simplify the modalities allocation of subsidies to municipalities and EPCIs which were often eligible for these two grants. The criteria used are based on the population as well as the wealth of the municipalities and EPCIs with their own taxation. Article 141 of the finance law for 2017 modified upwards the thresholds allowing municipalities and EPCI to be eligible for the DETR to take into account changes to the intermunicipal card as well as the terms of distribution of departmental envelopes, impacting the number of eligible municipalities. Indeed, to benefit from the DETR, articles L2334-33 et seq. of the general code of local authorities (CGCT) provide that metropolitan municipalities must not exceed 20,000 inhabitants and have a financial potential per inhabitant less than 1.3 times the average financial potential per inhabitant of all the municipalities in the departments from mainland France and overseas whose population exceeds 2,000 inhabitants and does not exceed 20,000 inhabitants. These legislative criteria essentially take into account population thresholds. The DETR aims to provide financial support to local authorities: it concerns the investment expenditure of municipalities or EPCIs in rural areas, and finances economic or social development projects and the maintenance of services. public in rural areas. These rural municipalities do not benefit from the same attractiveness as the metropolises and their municipalities located in their hinterlands. Elected officials from rural constituencies are often worried about the future of their municipality and express their incomprehension because this allocation is not reserved solely for rural areas. For example in the Var department, but it is the same elsewhere in France, certain municipalities on the outskirts of major cities and sometimes even located in metropolises, benefit from the DETR. Indeed, almost half of the member municipalities of the Toulon metropolis are, for example, still eligible for the DETR in 2018. There is no question of opposing metropolises and rural areas because these must be complementary, it is in fact the very role of metropolises to enable harmonious development. of their entire territory. In addition, the State is currently pursuing a dynamic policy in favor of communities, the “city center” contracts are one of its symbols. It is a question of maintaining this dynamic policy and strengthening the desire for balance between the territories desired by the State which made the choice, from the finance law for 2018, to maintain the DETR at its highest level. He therefore questions him about the possibility of the addition of a geographical criterion allowing the provision of equipment to be reserved for rural areas in favor of municipalities objectively located in rural areas. At a constant budget, this initiative would be likely to allow a considerable increase in State resources allocated to the development of rural communities.

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