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2. French regulations and the Seveso Directive
2.1 Major accidents and their impact on French regulations
The imperial decree of October 15, 1810, on factories and workshops that emit unhealthy or inconvenient odors, defined the basis for legislation on classified installations and laid the foundations for a nomenclature. The explosion at the Grenelle gunpowder factory on August 31, 1794, which killed over 1,000 people, seems to have been the reason for this decree .
The decree specifies that "factories and workshops...
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Bibliography
Websites
Ministère de l'Écologie, du Développement durable et de l'Énergie – Inspection des installations classées – Établissements classés Seveso :
http://www.installationsclassees.developpement-durable.gouv.fr/Risques-accidentels.html
Website listing industrial establishments...
Regulations
Code de l'environnement, Livre I – Dispositions communes (legislative part) (JO n° 219 du 21 septembre 2000)
Environment Code, Book I – Common provisions (regulatory part) (JO n° 219 du 21 septembre 2000)
Code de l'environnement, Livre V – Prévention des pollutions, des risques et des nuisances (legislative part) (JO n° 219 du 21 septembre 2000).
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