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The 164 of the biggest French bridges across the road network, and highlights the 23 that have been deemed to require updates.

Two were judged to need very urgent repairs (鈥渃ategory 3U鈥�): the viaduct at Echinghen, near to Boulogne-sur-Mer (Pas-de-Calais), on the A16; and the viaduct at Caronte, on the A55, in Martigues (Bouches-du-Rh么ne).

Both bridges are currently undergoing work, with the second now said to be out of danger, but requiring a second inspection to confirm this.

A further 21 bridges were in 鈥渃ategory 3鈥�, meaning they need 鈥渞epair work fairly soon but are not an emergency鈥�; and the rest were in 鈥渃ategory 2鈥� meaning they have 鈥渕inor defects鈥�.

Just one bridge was judged to be in 鈥渃ategory 1鈥�, meaning it was 鈥渋n an apparently good state鈥�. Two others, the viaduct at Millau (Aveyron) and the Normandy bridge (Seine-Maritime et Calvados), were also in very good condition.

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The list is based on data up to December 2017.

This taken into account more recent incidents, such as the collapse of a support pillar on the Gennevilliers viaduct on the A15, between Hauts-de-Seine and Val-d'Oise. Repairs on this are due to start before the end of September.

Of the entire list, 42 bridges are the direct responsibility of the State, with 122 others managed by motorway companies.

The list comes after transport minister Elisabeth Borne promised to publish it, following the collapse of the motorway bridge in Genoa in Italy on August 14, which killed 43 people.

Ms Borne the public that there was no danger, and that she had recently increased the budget for keeping bridges updated.

She : 鈥淭his classification of the condition of bridges is a tool to indicate any repairs needed, and how urgent they are. It does not translate into a security risk.

鈥淲e have some bridges that are not completely new [but] I did not wait for the Genoa catastrophe to begin working on their upkeep, or to take stock of the state of the national network.鈥�