Subsection 3: Clean seawater quality and monitoring

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Article R1322-71

French Public Health CodeIn force
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Updated 5 Nov 2023

I. - The clean seawater produced must comply with quality limits and standards, relating to microbiological and physico-chemical parameters, set by joint order of the Minister for Health and the Minister for Agriculture, issued after consultation with the National Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health Safety.

The ministerial order mentioned in the first paragraph also defines the additional quality limits and references which the Prefect may, as part of the order authorising the production of clean seawater, require to be complied with, if the local situation so warrants.

II. - Where the quality of the seawater so requires, the person responsible for the production of clean seawater sets up an appropriate treatment system, continuously monitors the quality of the clean seawater and regularly checks that the installations are operating correctly by means of a programme of tests and analyses carried out at monitoring points determined according to the hazards identified. A joint order by the Minister for Health and the Minister for Agriculture specifies, depending on the characteristics of the clean seawater production facilities, the nature of the analyses, the minimum frequency of sampling and analysis and the procedures for carrying them out.

Each year, the person responsible for the production sends the Director General of the Regional Health Agency and the Prefect a report on the results of the monitoring of the quality of the clean seawater and makes available to them the results of the monitoring of the quality of the clean seawater as well as any information relating to this quality.

III. - The Director General of the Regional Health Agency, on his own initiative or at the request of the Prefect or the person responsible for production, may increase or reduce the obligations on a producer with regard to the content and frequency of analyses of samples of clean seawater provided for by the Ministerial Order mentioned in the first paragraph of I if the protection conditions of the seawater withdrawal area, the operating conditions of the installations, the checks carried out or the quality of the water withdrawn or of the clean seawater require or allow this. The Director General may also carry out inspections and have the person responsible for production carry out additional sampling and analyses, the cost of which is borne by the producer.

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