Difficult fundingThe second black point is coordination

Promised, juror, after the accident of AZF the France was committed to exemplary behaviour in terms of prevention of industrial risks. The explosion of the chemical site, ten days after September 11, 2001, had caused outrage and helped raise awareness of the lack of risk culture in the industrial world. Lack of inspectors at the national level, insufficient methodologies for assessment of the danger, uncontrolled rampant urbanization around sites which endangers the life of the neighbours, the diagnosis by immediately designated parliamentary fact-finding mission led the Jospin Government to quickly announce the development of a Bill. Seven years later, five years after the adoption of the text, eventually voted under the Government of Jean-Pierre Raffarin promises were half held.

Risk "Seveso high threshold.

First branch of the law, the reduction of the risks at source has been completed. Studies of risk of approximately 611 establishments classified "Seveso high threshold", that is the most dangerous, have all been reviewed and take into account the methodologies of calculation laid down by law. Industrial, administration and experts began to agree on how to take into account the potential seriousness of an accident, the number of affected people and places affected disaster mapping. "We put a lot of time writing design guidelines, methodologies did not exist. "This partially explains the delay in the adoption of plans for prevention of technological risks (PPRTS)," recognizes an expert.

Delay The word is low: the Act gave July 31, 2008, to the adoption of the famous PPRTS. Only 5 were approved while taking into account groupings on some sites of several plants Seveso, a total of 421 plans must be approved. The Minister of ecology sent prefects a circular to their pressure by setting a target of 380 plans end of 2010. Approximately 110 have been finalised by the industry, but the negotiations with the elected and civil society must still be carried out, and a hundred other plans are almost developed by industry.

Difficult funding

The second black point is coordination. On the 421 commissions local information, only 330 have been incorporated. "Not only they have not all been created, but they do meet only once a year and often the representatives of civil society do not receive the documents only a few days before", was he excited Marc Senant, the question industrial risks in the France association nature environnement (FNE).

On the merits, the observed slow is explained in large part by the fact that the law not really decided the question of the financing of the measures of compensation. The owner of a House, located in front of a plant and hazard study has shown that it has a very high probability to be rugged should able to benefit from a so-called "abandonment" procedure, i.e. the purchase by the State, local communities and the company. Problem, the total amount of necessary expenses would be more than 2.8 billion euros... the triennial Finance Act provides only 190 million for the part of the State. Among large files in view, the deviation or the protection of the motorway A7 South of Lyon is at the stage of the technical study. The economic crisis should not help to resolve this issue.