CHAPTER IV: Public industrial and commercial services

In wastewater agglomerations whose population and economic activities produce wastewater with a gross organic pollution load of more than 600 kg per day and whose discharges occur in a sensitive area defined in articles 6 and 7 of decree no. 94-469 of 3 June 1994, the treatment mentioned in article R. 2224-11 is more stringent treatment than that provided for in article R. 2224-13. This more stringent treatment is applicable…

Municipalities must set up monitoring of wastewater collection systems and treatment plants with a view to maintaining and checking their efficiency, on the one hand, and the environment receiving the discharge, on the other. An order of the ministers responsible for health and the environment lays down the technical procedures by which monitoring is carried out : a) The efficiency of wastewater collection; b) The efficiency of treatment of this…

The period referred to in the second paragraph of II of Article L. 2224-8 is set by the service regulations provided for in Article L. 2224-12. This period may not exceed six weeks from the date on which the municipality receives the request from the owner or the joint owners’ association to carry out the inspection of the connection to the public sewerage system.

The discharge of sewage sludge into the aquatic environment by any means whatsoever is prohibited.

Non-collective sanitation systems must allow the preservation of surface and groundwater quality. The technical specifications applicable to non-collective sanitation systems receiving a gross organic pollution load less than or equal to 1.2 kg are set by joint order of the ministers responsible for health, housing and the environment. The technical requirements applicable to non-collective sanitation systems receiving a gross organic pollution load of more than 1.2 kg are those set…

I. – The subscriber file mentioned in Article L. 2224-11-4 implemented for the invoicing of water and sanitation by the delegatee of a public water or sanitation service includes the elements necessary for the preparation of invoices, receipts and accounting documents required for the production of receipts and the recovery of sums due as well as the collection and recovery of taxes and duties attached and the management of the…

Any public sewerage service, regardless of how it is operated, gives rise to the collection of sewerage fees established under the conditions set by the articles R. 2224-19-1 to R. 2224-19-11.

The municipal council or the deliberative body of the public establishment responsible for all or part of the public collective or non-collective sanitation service institutes a sanitation fee for the part of the service it provides and sets the rate. When the sanitation service covers both collective and non-collective sanitation, two separate charges are introduced. The budget attached to the sanitation service or the joint water and sanitation budget established…

The collective wastewater treatment charge comprises a variable part and, where applicable, a fixed part. The variable part is determined on the basis of the volume of water taken by the user from the public distribution network or from any other source, the use of which generates the discharge of wastewater collected by the wastewater service. This volume is calculated under the conditions defined in articles R. 2224-19-3 and R….

When water consumption is calculated on a flat-rate basis, pursuant to the third paragraph of I of article L. 2224-12-4, sanitation fees may also be calculated on a flat-rate basis.