Question 2528 — overseas

Summary

Mr. Philippe Gomès draws the attention of the Minister for Overseas Territories to the execution of development contracts awarded by the State to New Caledonia for the period 2017-2021. He recalls that development contracts were established by the referendum law of November 9, 1988, then confirmed by the organic law of March 19, 1999, and that they are an essential financing tool for the rebalancing and economic development of the territory. It notes that the total amount of contracted credits for 2017-2021 amounts to more than 93.5 billion FCFP, with an overall State participation of 47 billion FCFP over five years, or 9.4 billion FCFP (79 million euros) per year. He expresses his serious concern about the possibility that the State plans not to respect its financial commitment. He notes in fact that during the monitoring and programming committee of the September 1, 2017, the State announced a commitment authorization of 6.001 billion FCFCP (50 million euros) for this first year of budgetary programming, or only 63% of the credits initially planned when the contract was signed in December 2016. It underlines that the entire budgetary balance of New Caledonian communities could be jeopardized if the overall envelope of development contracts was not respected. He cites the fact that a certain number of structuring projects, carried out by New Caledonian communities in major areas such as housing, public facilities, health, youth, professional training or even research, will not be able to start if the State does not honor the funding to which it has contractually committed. He would therefore like to know whether the State intends to continue its support for New Caledonia under development contracts, thus marking its commitment to perpetuating a pact of trust which has lasted for 30 years, and, in this hypothesis, asks it to confirm the budgetary inclusion of its contractualized annual participation of 9.4 billion FCFP (79 million euros) within the framework of the 2018 PLF.

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