Question 3855 — local authorities

Summary

Mr. Frank Giletti draws the attention of the Minister of Territorial Planning and Decentralization to the temporality in terms of allocation and payment of the equipment grant for rural territories (DETR) and the local investment support grant (DSIL) for rural municipalities and intercommunalities. The DETR and the DSIL represent, for the territories and intercommunities concerned, a source of financing considerable for a large number of projects. However, rural mayors and intermunicipalities have been emphasizing for several years the difficulties linked to the timing of obtaining and disbursing these two grants. In order to best match the requirements of the DETR and DSIL award criteria, municipalities often build their financing plan based on and around these two allocations. While they need present a sufficiently mature project and almost ready to start in N-1 of the financing year, the final amount of the overall envelope is only known with certainty during year N. The firing window is thus very reduced since a project that is not sufficiently advanced will be refused, because it is deemed "not mature" and no subsidy can be granted if the operation has, conversely, begun execution. The difficulties continue since once the request has been made, you have to wait several months to get a response which, even if it is positive, can lead to obtaining a different amount, which disrupts the financing plan. Except that given the response times it is very complicated, if not impossible, to report this change to other funders (regions, departments, etc.), who also have their own timetable for requesting funding. funding. Furthermore, if the project presents a certain complexity or has additional costs (related to materials, for example), it is easy to understand that this could quickly represent a significant difficulty for a small rural municipality. Finally, the time between the allocation of the grant and the actual payment can range from 6 to 8 months. This leads to difficulties in the execution of projects and especially in their payment. The case the most emblematic being that of rural municipalities having had to borrow the planned amount from the DETR in order to be able to carry out the project while waiting for the payment of this subsidy. In terms of DETR and DSIL, the use of cash advances for municipalities is becoming more and more frequent. Faced with all these difficulties, the MP asks the Minister what avenues can be considered in order to provide greater readability and above all to reduce the response times and effective allocation of the DETR and the DSIL to municipalities and intermunicipalities. He asks him if we could not reduce the deadlines for awarding and paying these two grants.

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