The Walloon government took decisions this Thursday concerning several files relating to natural calamities occurring between 2022 and 2024.
The Walloon government examined, this Thursday, a series of pending files relating to natural disasters that affected Walloon municipalities between 2022 and 2024.
In the end, eight applications were rejected, the minimum thresholds required in terms of wind speed, quantity of precipitation or extent of damage having not been reached.
One file – that of floods and violent winds which hit La Louvière, Oreye, Ottignies, Ramillies and Seneffe in August 2023, received partial recognition, certain phenomena having been excluded.
Finally, five cases were fully recognized as natural disasters. This is the case of the floods of September 2023 in Fosses-la-Ville; floods of January 2024 in Bouillon and Chiny; floods of May 12, 2024 in Chaumont-Gistoux, Gembloux and Walhain; those of May 17 and 18 in Aubel, Beyne-Heusay, Blegny, Chaudfontaine, Dalhem, Esneux, Grez-Doiceau, Hannut, Herve, Liège, Olne, Pepinster, Thimister-Clermont, Trooz, Visé, Wasseiges and Welkenraedt and finally floods of June 29 and 30 in Aubange. “As part of the simplification pact, the Walloon government undertakes to have the legal framework evaluated to speed up procedures and enable faster compensation for victims. The objective is to guarantee better responsiveness and smoother processing of requests future”commented, in a press release, the regional minister-president, Adrien Dolimont.
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