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6. The role of the State
Even though mayors have extensive police powers in the fields of safety and the environment, in application of the General Code of Local Authorities, and in particular are required to intervene to "prevent, by taking suitable precautions, and to put a stop to, by distributing the necessary aid, accidents and calamitous plagues, such as fires, floods, dyke failures", the State plays a central role in the prevention of natural hazards.
In this way, an advisory and technical support body for the prevention of natural hazards has been set up within the Ministry of the Environment to define the research and studies needed in the field of risk prevention, and to promote actions in this area, within the framework of the funds at its disposal.
In addition, the Department for the Prevention of Major Risks, created in 2001, is responsible for "drawing...
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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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