[DREAL OCCITANIA] Rural Revitalisation Zones in Occitania

Rural Revitalisation Areas (RZs) are designed to assist the development of rural territories mainly through fiscal and social measures. Specific measures for economic development shall apply. The aim is to concentrate state aid measures for job-creating enterprises in the less populated rural areas and those most affected by demographic and economic decline.The RRAs were created by the Law of 4 February 1995 of Guidance for the Development and Development of the Territory (LOADT). The Interministerial Committee on Territorial Planning and Development (CIADT) on 3 September 2003 set out new guidelines for adapting this tool to current needs. The corresponding provisions are laid down in the Law on the Development of Rural Areas of 23 February 2005 and Decree No. 2005-1435 of 21 November 2005.The list establishing the classification of municipalities as ZRR is drawn up and revised each year by order of the Prime Minister in the light of the creations, abolitions and alterations of the boundaries of EPCIs with own taxation established on 31 December of the previous year. With the provisions adopted on 28 November 2017 by the Senate in the context of the draft budget law for 2018, municipalities released from the Rural Revitalisation Areas (RZR) system on 1 July 2017 will be suspended for three years, i.e. until the end of June 2020.