Part One: General health protection

The programme of analyses of water samples taken from production and distribution facilities may be modified by the Director General of the Regional Health Agency, on his own initiative or at the request of the Prefect, and in accordance with the procedures laid down by the Ministerial Order referred to in article R. 1321-15, if the conditions for the protection of the water catchment and the operation of the facilities,…

The Director General of the Regional Health Agency may, on his own initiative or at the request of the Prefect, have additional analyses carried out at the expense of the person responsible for the production or distribution of water in the following cases: 1° The quality of water intended for human consumption does not comply with the quality limits set by the order mentioned in article R. 1321-2 ; 2°…

The Prefect or, in the case of health and medico-social establishments, the Director General of the Regional Health Agency may arrange for additional analyses to be carried out, at the expense of the owner(s), when their distribution facilities may be the cause of non-compliance with the quality limits defined by the order mentioned in article R. 1321-2.

To carry out the analysis programme provided for in articles R. 1321-10, R. 1321-15, R. 1321-15-1 and R. 1321-16 and for the additional analyses provided for in articles R. 1321-17 and R. 1321-18, water samples are taken by agents of the Regional Health Agency or by agents of a laboratory approved under the conditions mentioned in article R. 1321-21. With the exception of the cases provided for in article R….

An order by the Minister for Health, issued after consultation with the Agence nationale de sécurité sanitaire de l’alimentation, de l’environnement et du travail, determines the sampling conditions to be used to measure lead, copper and nickel in water. The radionuclides to be taken into account when calculating the indicative dose set out in the order referred to in Article R. 1321-3 and the methods used for this calculation are…

The analyses of water samples mentioned in article R. 1321-19 are carried out by laboratories which must obtain prior approval from the Director General of the Agence nationale de sécurité sanitaire de l’alimentation, de l’environnement et du travail and, for radioactivity analyses, from the Minister for Health. This approval may be granted to laboratories based in another Member State of the European Community which can demonstrate that they have equivalent…

Approved laboratories send the results of their analyses to the Director General of the Regional Health Agency, who forwards them to the Prefect with his comments and to the person responsible for producing, distributing or packaging the water. The Prefect shall make available to the mayors, chairmen of public establishments for inter-communal cooperation and mixed syndicates concerned the results of analyses of the quality of water supplied by a public…

From the catchment area upstream of private distribution facilities, the person responsible for water production or distribution draws up, implements, evaluates and updates a water safety management plan for the part for which it is responsible. For the purposes of this article, the catchment area corresponds to the drinking water catchment area referred to inarticle L. 211-3 of the Environment Code. Failing this, it corresponds to: 1° In the absence…

Without prejudice to the programme of water quality analyses provided for in articles R. 1321-15, R. 1321-15-1 and R. 1321-16 and the additional analyses provided for in articles R. 1321-17 and R. 1321-18, the person responsible for producing or distributing water is required to implement ongoing monitoring in order to guarantee the quality of water intended for human consumption. This monitoring includes in particular: 1° Regular verification of the measures…