Question 88 — land use planning

Summary

The Government announced, on July 1, a pause on all major transport infrastructure projects, in order to define the ways and means for financing transport infrastructure projects. This is why the “Mobility Conference” was launched, which should make it possible to build a multi-year trajectory for financing transport infrastructure balanced between revenue and expenditure, realistic and sincere. The conclusions of this approach will be the subject of an orientation law which will be presented to Parliament in the first half of 2018. No project will be launched without an exhaustive, credible and guaranteed financing plan. Due to the strong mobilization of elected officials in favor of the project, its European character and the new proposals that have been made, the Government is carefully considering the canal project Seine-Nord Europe despite the context of pause in major infrastructure projects. The Government is thus committed to studying with the communities the solutions which will enable the security of financing for the project. The governance of the project company could thus evolve towards a local public establishment, making it possible to transfer financial and operational management as well as project risk management to the communities. territorial. It will also be a matter of securing European funding, and the State is mobilized so that decisions are taken in a timetable compatible with the European timetable. The financing of the share owed by local authorities, which amounts to nearly €1 billion, will have to come from the communities' own resources. However, if additional regional resources were necessary, in logic of modal shift, the State will help to establish a relevant legal framework. The State's share in financing the project also amounts to €1 billion. Finally, the proposal for full funding by local authorities of the work over the 2018-2020 period is a necessary condition for the progress of the project. All of these financing options will be studied within the framework of a working group led by Mr. Gérald Darmanin, Minister of Action and Public Accounts, and Ms. Elisabeth Borne, Minister responsible for Transport, by the end of the year. These reflections will be part, in terms of deadlines and method, within the framework of the work of the infrastructure orientation council so that the financing needs for the canal are understood in the overall context of the financing needs of transport infrastructures in Hauts-de-France.

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