Part One: General health protection

By way of derogation from the provisions of Book I of the Code de l’expropriation pour cause d’utilité publique and Chapter III of Title II of Book I of the Code de l’environnement, when a minor modification to one or more of the protection perimeters or related easements mentioned in article L. 1321-2 of this Code is required, the public enquiry is conducted in accordance with a simplified procedure, defined…

The compensation that may be due to the owners or occupiers of land included within a protection perimeter for the abstraction of water intended for human consumption, as a result of measures taken to ensure the protection of this water, is set according to the rules applicable to expropriation for reasons of public utility. When the compensation referred to in the first paragraph is due as a result of the…

I. – Any public or private person responsible for the production or distribution to the public of water intended for human consumption in any form whatsoever, whether public networks or internal networks, as well as any private person responsible for a private distribution authorised in application of article L. 1321-7, is a water supplier. It is required to: 1° Monitor the quality of the water produced or distributed; 2° Submit…

The health monitoring of water intended for human consumption, which is the responsibility of the State, includes water sampling and analysis carried out by the regional health agency or a laboratory approved by the Director General of the National Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health Safety, with the exception of radioactivity analyses which are carried out by a laboratory approved by the Minister for Health. A laboratory established in…

The persons responsible for water production are public or private persons. The persons responsible for water distribution are the public persons provided for in the first paragraph of article L. 2224-7-1 of the General Local Authorities Code. Within the framework of the tasks provided for in article L. 1321-4 of this code and regardless of the management method chosen, the persons mentioned in this article are responsible for what falls…

I.-Without prejudice to the provisions of article L. 214-1 of the Environment Code, the use of water for human consumption, with the exception of natural mineral water, is subject to authorisation from the State representative in the département, for : 1° Production ; 2° Distribution via a public or private network, with the exception of distribution for the use of a family mentioned in III and distribution via private networks…

It is forbidden to supply water intended for human consumption via open canals, with the exception of those existing on 30 October 1935, which have been improved to ensure that the water supplied is clean and wholesome water intended for human consumption.

Data on the quality of water intended for human consumption, in particular the results of analyses carried out as part of health checks and at private homes, are sent by the Director General of the Regional Health Agency to the State representative in the département. They are public and may be communicated to third parties. The representative of the State in the department is required to regularly communicate to the…

A decree by the Conseil d’Etat shall determine the procedures for applying the provisions of this chapter, with the exception of article L. 1321-9, and in particular those relating to the monitoring of their implementation and the conditions under which the costs of health monitoring and the costs corresponding to the obligations laid down in this chapter shall be borne by the public or private person responsible for production or…