Mountain area on Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

Article 3 of Law No 85-30 of 9 January 1985 on the development and protection of the mountain (known as the Mountain Act) defines the mountain areas in which Articles L. 122-1 et seq. of the Urban Planning Code apply. The law does not give a definition of mountain, but it defines the concept of mountain area in the light of various criteria related to the natural handicaps suffered by these territories. Article 3 of the Mountain Act defines mountain areas. These are “municipalities or parts of communes characterised by a considerable limitation of the possibilities of land use and a significant increase in the costs of work due to: 1 If, due to altitude, very difficult climatic conditions are present, resulting in a significantly shortened growing season; 2 The presence, at a lower altitude, in most of the territory, of steep slopes such that mechanisation is not possible or requires the use of particular very expensive equipment; 3 To the combination of these two factors where the importance of the disability, resulting from each of them taken separately, is less accentuated; in that case, the disability resulting from that combination must be equivalent to that resulting from the situations referred to in 1 and 2 above.’ Each mountain area is attached to a massif in accordance with Decree No. 2004-69 of 16 January 2004 on the delimitation of the massifs, namely the Alps, Corsica, Massif Central, Massif Jurassien, the Pyrenees and the Vosgien Massif. Attention: This data does not include an identification of the municipalities concerned by the application of the urban planning provisions of the Montagne law. Interministerial decrees have specified the municipalities or parts of communes (+ 5 500) included in a mountain area on the basis of the criteria defined by the law. Article 1 of the Decree of 6 September 1985 delimiting the mountain zone in metropolitan France provides that the mountain area is bounded by the following decrees: order of 20 February 1974 delimiting mountain areas; order of 28 April 1976 on the classification of municipalities and parts of communes in mountain areas; order of 18 January 1977 on the classification of municipalities and parts of municipalities in mountain areas; order of 13 November 1978 classifying the municipality of Loucrup (Hautes-pyrenees) in mountain areas (completes the decree of 28 April 1976); order of 29 January 1982 on the classification of municipalities or parts of communes into favoured areas (Annex I); order of 20 September 1983 categorising municipalities and parts of municipalities into favoured areas under Article 2 of Decree 77566 of 03 June 1977 (Annex I); order of 14 December 1984 categorising municipalities and parts of municipalities into favoured areas (Annex II); order of 25 July 1985 on the classification of municipalities and parts of municipalities into favoured areas (Annex I). Attention, several decrees were adopted subsequent to the decree of 6 September 1985 in order to add municipalities to the list of mountain areas in connection with the application of agricultural policies and the allocation of allocations specific to the municipalities. These municipalities do not fall within the scope of the urban planning provisions of the Montagne Act contained in Articles L. 122-1 et seq. of the Urban Planning Code. In France, two official and administrative boundaries of the mountains overlap. Mountain areas on the one hand (they come under a sectoral approach dedicated primarily to agriculture as part of the recognition and compensation of natural handicaps) and, on the other hand, the massifs built to promote the self-development of mountain areas. The massif encompasses not only mountain areas, but also areas immediately adjacent to them: Piedmonts, or even plains if they ensure the continuity of the massif. The notion of massif is a purely French approach, allowing to have an administrative entity competent to carry out mountain policy. This notion of massif is to be differentiated from the notion of mountain. Last update 09/02/2016 Date of data and reference 31/12/2015 Scale of analysis common Distribution organisation CGET/DGCL/MAAF COG Geography 2015