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Introduction

Industrial sites are submitted to different levels of European and National regulations concerning:

• Workers protection through legal texts and regulations such as labor code, social security code, public Health code
• Production, storage and use of chemical substances concerning the control of technological and environmental risk management.
• Sites, where hazardous substances transit, are submitted, on a national level, to the ICPE regulation (Classified Installations for the environment protection) described in book V of the environment code.
• Transportation, especially for hazardous materials, is submitted to the ADR regulation

These regulations, result of the analysis of technological, environmental or health risks, interact. The evaluation of the REACH substances, their worldwide GHS classification and their European CLP classification have an impact on the European (SEVESO type) or national (ICPE) regulations. They result in an exponential increase of legal and regulatory texts.

The European and national (Grenelle) regulation also requires the public's information.

The Aarhus Convention 

Classidied Installations

The directive named Seveso or directive 96/82/CE is an European directive. It imposes the European Union state members to identify the industrial sites presenting major-accident hazard involving dangerous substances. The directive, adopted on June 24th 1982, was modified on December 9th 1996 and amended in 2003 the directive 2003/105/CE.

- Actually SEVESO II

Directive n° 2003/105/CE of December 16th 2003 (JOCE n° L 345 of December 31st 2003)
Notions of High and low Seveso threshold in annex
Part 1 substances designated by name
Part 2 susbtances not designated by name (example: toxic, flammable,…)
Article 23-1 of directive n° 96/82/CE of December 9th 1996 concerning the management of major-accident hazard involving dangerous substances
Directive 82/501/CEE of June 24th 1982 board

- In Preparation SEVESO III - forecast June 2015

Further details can be found in the impact assessment and on DG ENV's website at 
The review of the Directive 

ICPE

Principles of this French regulation on industrial risk prevention based on the risk evaluation is:

• To reduce the risk from the source by implementing the best available techniques
• To define the emergency plans and to communicate with the resident heaps
• To master urbanization

Environment code book V : pollution, risks and nuisances prevention - Title I : Classified Installations for Environment Protection.

Each section is identified with a 4 digit numbers, the 2 first ones representing the substance or activity category (ex : 1110 High toxicity substances , 27XX wastes…).

Each section offers a description of the activity and the eventual thresholds for which a ranking is defined. The ranking is as follow:

• D for declaration (a C can be added if the installation is submitted to periodic control by an approved organization)
• E for registration
• A for authorization
• AS for authorization with servitude of public utility (linkwith SEVESO regulation)

Substances and blends:

• 11XX : Toxics
• 12XX : Oxidizers
• 13XX : Explosives
• 14XX : Flammables
• 15XX : Combustibles
• 16XX : Corrosives
• 17XX : Radioactifs
• 18XX : Water reactifs 

Specified section for toxic, irritant or sensitizer caractheristics has not been created yet in the classified installations' nomenclature.

For most of the ICPE sections, type regulation defining the means to implement are defined. Each site submitted to authorization is governed par prefectoral order defining the regulatory obligations and the implementating schedule.

DREAL under prefects authority are in charge of controlling and of putting into force this regulation. List of the 21 DREAL

NB : Other regulations concerning CLP classification, waste management, reduction of greenhouse gases emissions have these sections evoluting.

Transportation

An international regulation undertaken by UNO and which aim is to encourage movements of goods and people by improving competitiveness, safety, energetic efficiency in transportation, by reducing environmental impact and contributing to sustainable development.

http://live.unece.org/trans/welcome.html

A unique directive of European Parliament and Board (Dir. 2008/68/CE, 24 Sept. 2008) has been adopted to unify the constraints enforced to land transportation (road, railway and waterway) made by the State members within European Union and published in JOUE on 24th September 2008. It abrogates the previous directives, in order to establish a common system to the various terrestrial ways. It means that member states take regulatory measures to respect the directive, by June 30th 2009, at the latest. 

In France, three agreements concerning terrestrial transportation of hazardous goods (ADR for road, RID for railway and more recently ADN for waterway) gave rise to the publication of three decrees implementing the law  (decrees named ADR of June 1st 2001, RID of June 5th 2001 and ADNR of December 5th 2002). Respecting the Union approach - a unique directive for the three terrestrial ways- the French government has decided to transcribe this directive by a unique decree applicable as at National terrestrial transportation of hazardous goods.

This May 29th 2009 new decree concerning terrestrial transportation of hazardous goods, named « TMD decree », effective on July 1st 2009, echoes significantly, on the basis of established law, the provisions of the 3 decrees ADR, RID and ADNR.
TMD decree of May 29th 2009 concerning terrestrial transportation of hazardous goods

ESP/ESPT

Under pressure equipment/ transportable Under pressure equipment

The 16^th of June 2010, Directive 2010/35/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council on transportable under pressure equipment and repealing Council Directives 76/767/EEC, 84/525/EEC, 84/526/EEC, 84/527/EEC and 1999/36/EC Text with EEA relevance from July 1^st 2011

This new directive must be transposed in the National law of the member states before June 30^th 2011.
The decree n°2003-1250 of December 22^nd 2003 transposed the directive 2002/50/CE of European Commission of June 6^th 2002 and modified the decree n° 2001-386 of May 3^rd 2001 concerning transportable pressure equipments.
Under pressure aquipment transportation (gas cartridges, tankers, battery-vehicles, battery-wagon, gas containers, etc.) is a significant element of the hazardous goods transportation sector. The aim of this regulation is to increase the transportation safety of this type of equipments and to ensure their free movement  within the European Community. It includesdispositions concerning different economical agents' obligations, equipments conformity, control and monitoring organizations, and their mutual reconnaissance.

Regulatory Actuality: Grenelle II

Promulgated on July 12^st 2010, the law on National Environment Commitment, named « Grenelle 2 », is an implementing and location application of Grenelle Environment and the Grenelle 1 law. It lists, worksite by worksite, sector by sector, the authorized objectives by the first legal section of the Grenelle Environment.

Control of chemical risk on worksite

Obligation is done to check, on worksite, of the exposition to hazardous chemical agents to VLEP Regulation is more restrictive in 2010 and indicative in 2012

Decree no 2009-1570 of December 15^th 2009 concerning the control of chemical risk on worksite 

Article R 4412 of labor code

Modernization plan

The goal is to maintain the integrity of industrial facilities. It concerns the civil engineering works, the storage tank, the transport pipelines, the plant capacities and piping (piping on industrial site), security instrumentation (MMRI : instrumented measures of risk management).

Decree of October 4th 2010,
Prevention of accident risks

Modernization plan of the industrial installations

Earthquake

In order to ensure the human being protection, the regulation requires to respect of paraseismic rules for new buildings. These rules are defined in Eurocode 8 norm. The decree of October 22^nd 2010 sets the rules of paraseismic construction for building with regular risk, two decrees define the prevention principles and the seismic areas.

Decree n°2010-1254 of October 22nd 2010 Prevention of seismic risk

Decree n°2010-1255 of October 22nd 2010 Threshold setting of seismic areas on French territory

Decree of October 22^nd 2010 Classification and rules for paraseismic construction

Earthquake plan

Paraseismic regulation for buildings

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