New Aquitaine: Municipalities classified in mountain areas (surfacic)

This dataset contains the municipalities classified in mountain areas, in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region. The classification of municipalities in mountain areas is based on the provisions of Council Regulation No 1257/1999 of 17 May 1999 on support for rural development and in particular Article 18 thereof for mountain areas and Council Directive 76/401/EEC of 6 April 1976 (definition of the criteria for classification in France in mountain areas). The mountain area is defined, by Article 18 of Regulation 1257/99, as being characterised by handicaps related to altitude, slope, and/or climate, which have the effect of substantially restricting the possibilities of land use and generally increasing the cost of all works. This list of municipalities in mountain areas is used in particular to calculate the overall operating allocation of municipalities by the DGCL. In France, two official and administrative boundaries of the mountains overlap. Mountain areas on the one hand (they come under a sectoral approach primarily dedicated 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 (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. __Origin__ This set of data is created from the boundaries of communes of GEOFLA — IGN and from the list of municipalities classified in mountain areas published by l'INSEE (data date 31/12/2015 — date of last update INSEE 09/02/2016) __Partner organisations__ DREAL Nouvelle-Aquitaine __Links annexes__ * [basketDownloadFrontalParametrage](https://catalogue.sigena.fr/geosource/panierDownloadFrontalParametrage?LAYERIDTS=3933585) [See this page on geo.data.gouv.fr](https://geo.data.gouv.fr/fr/datasets/5cbb4708d6e4327361e0c487ae71b6aba527b83e)