7. Preventive population information
Citizens have a right to information on the major risks to which they are exposed in certain areas of the country, and on the protective measures that concern them. This right applies to technological and foreseeable risks.
Livre V – Titre VI – Chapitre 1 er of the French Environment Code, entitled "Mesures de sauvegarde des populations menacées par certains risques naturels majeurs de l'Environnement" (Measures to protect populations threatened by certain major natural environmental risks), defines the conditions under which the public authorities can intervene to prevent major natural risks in advance, or after a disaster, if communes have not drawn up a PPRn or if it has not been complied with.
With the development of local authority websites, all citizens can now consult their local PPRn,...
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The various codes whose articles come under the regulation of the prevention and repair of damage resulting from major foreseeable or unforeseeable risks:
– Code général des collectivités territoriales
– Code de l'expropriation pour cause d'utilité publique (French law on expropriation for public use)
– Environment Code
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Glossary and acronyms
Anthropic action: an act whose formation is essentially the result of human action.
Hazard: natural phenomenon of potentially dangerous occurrence and intensity.
Natural disaster: phenomenon or combination of phenomena whose effects are particularly damaging.
Risk basin: homogeneous geographical entity subject to the same natural phenomenon....
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