The prefect shall inform the mayor of any observations he may have on the information mentioned in 1°, 2° and 3° of article D. 1332-35. With regard to 1° of article D. 1332-35, the prefect’s observations are sent before the date set for the start of the bathing season. These observations are communicated by the mayor to the person responsible for the bathing water concerned. The person responsible for the…
Each year, before 15 October, the Director General of the Regional Health Agency sends the Minister for Health, for the purposes of reporting to the European Commission, the results of the monitoring, the assessment of the quality of the bathing water under its jurisdiction and a description of the management measures taken.
Where a river basin has transboundary impacts on bathing water quality, Prefect Basin Coordinators shall cooperate with relevant persons in other Member States of the European Union as appropriate in the implementation of this Section, including through appropriate exchange of information and joint actions to monitor such impacts.
For the application of this chapter to Saint-Barthélemy and Saint-Martin, references to the President of the Territorial Council, the territorial authority and the local authority building replace references to the mayor, the municipality and the town hall respectively.
A managed bathing area comprises a portion of land adjacent to bathing water on which facilities have been built to encourage bathing.
The composition of the supporting documents accompanying the declaration, mentioned in article L. 1332-1, of a person who is developing a public or private bathing facility for collective use, is set by an order of the ministers for health and the environment and the minister for the interior.
The bathing facilities include a first-aid post located in the immediate vicinity of the beaches.
Toilets, the location of which is indicated, are installed near the bathing facilities; there are at least two of them. The sanitation of the facilities is carried out in such a way as to avoid any risk of pollution of the bathing water.
The provisions of this section apply to public or private artificial bathing facilities for collective use. Open-system artificial bathing facilities whose replenishment depends on the tides are not subject to the provisions of this section. For the purposes of this section, the following definitions apply: “Artificial bathing facility” means a bathing facility whose water is kept captive. “Water held captive” means water that is separated from surface water or groundwater…
Any person opening an artificial bathing facility to the public must have the bathing water profile mentioned in article D. 1332-20. This profile covers the filling water, when it is not intended for human consumption, and the water in the bathing area. In the event of significant modifications to environmental conditions, construction work or changes to infrastructures in the artificial bathing area or its immediate vicinity, which are likely to…
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