Mountain area under the Law of 9 January 1985

Mountain Law No 85-30 of 9 January 1985 as amended on the development and protection of the mountain Article 3 of the Law: mountain areas are characterised by significant handicaps leading to more difficult living conditions and restricting the exercise of certain economic activities. They include municipalities or parts of communes characterised by a considerable limitation of land use possibilities and a significant increase in the costs of work due to: either the existence, due to altitude, of very difficult climatic conditions [...] or the presence, at a lower altitude, [...], of strong slopes [...] or at the combination of these two factors...