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Appendix V to articles D. 2224-1, D. 2224-2 and D. 2224-3.

PUBLIC DRINKING WATER SERVICE

The characteristics and indicators mentioned below are established, unless otherwise indicated, for the financial year or at 31 December of the financial year concerned by the report and for the entire territory for which the local authority organising the service provides the water supply.

1° Technical characterisation of the service:

- presentation of the territory served; method of management of the service and, where applicable, expiry date of the contract(s) delegating the service;

- estimate of the number of inhabitants served on the basis of the total population of the communes and their total increased population defined in application of article L. 2334-2 du code général des collectivités territoriales;

- nature of resources used and volumes abstracted from each resource; volumes purchased from other public drinking water services;

- number of subscriptions ;

- volumes sold during the financial year, distinguishing between volumes sold to domestic and similar subscribers and to other subscribers as well as volumes sold to other public drinking water services;

- linear length of service networks (excluding connections);

2° Water pricing and service revenues:

- general presentation of water pricing methods and charges for access to the service; references of the deliberations of the service organising authority setting the tariffs for water and other services billed to subscribers;

- presentation of a water bill calculated on 1st January of the year in which the report is presented and on 1st January of the previous year, for a reference household consumption defined by INSEE. This presentation shows the remuneration for the public drinking water service, distinguishing, where applicable, between the portion due to the delegating authorities and the portion due to the delegating company, as well as the fees and taxes relating to the service. It also shows the amount of the bill that is not proportional to the volume consumed, distinguishing, where applicable, between the portion due to the delegating authorities and the portion due to the delegating companies. For each of the items that have changed since the previous year, the report provides explanatory information;

- amounts of revenue linked to the invoicing of the price of water as well as other operating revenue from, in particular, sales of water to other drinking water utilities and exceptional contributions from the general budget.

3° Performance indicators:

- data relating to the quality of the water distributed collected as part of the health inspection mentioned in article R. 1321-15 du code de la santé publique et taux de conformité des prélèvements sur les eaux distribuées réalisés au titre du contrôle sanitaire par rapport aux limites de qualité pour ce qui concerne la microbiologie et les paramètres physico-chimiques;

- indice de connaissance et de gestion patrimoniale des réseaux d'eau potable ;

- distribution network yield;

- linear index of unmetered volumes;

- linear index of network losses;

- average rate of renewal of drinking water networks;

- water resource protection progress index.

The reports submitted for examination by the local public services consultative commission pursuant to article L. 1413-1 du code général des collectivités territoriales also include the following elements:

- rate of occurrence of unscheduled service interruptions;

- maximum time limit for opening connections for new subscribers defined by the service and rate of compliance with this time limit;

- length of time taken to extinguish the authority's debt;

- rate of unpaid water bills for the previous year;

- existence of a system for recording written complaints received; rate of complaints.

4° Financing of investments

- financial amounts of work committed during the last financial year; amounts of subsidies from local authorities or public bodies and contributions from the general budget to finance this work;

- number and percentage of public lead connections removed or modified; percentage of public lead connections still to be modified or removed at 1 January of the year in which the report is presented;

- outstanding debt and amount of annual repayment of debt over the last financial year, identifying repayment of capital and interest;

- amount of depreciation carried out by the local authority organising the service;

- presentation of projects under study with a view to improving the quality of service to users and the environmental performance of the service; provisional amounts of works;

- presentation of multi-year works programmes adopted by the deliberative assembly over the last financial year.

5° Solidarity and decentralised cooperation actions in the field of water:

- amounts of debt waivers or payments to a solidarity fund in respect of aid for the payment of water bills for people in precarious situations in application of article L. 115-3 du code de l'action sociale et des familles; number of applications received;

- descriptions and financial amounts of decentralised cooperation operations conducted under article L. 1115-1-1 of the Code général des collectivités territoriales.