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Bernard Michel BLOCH: Diplôme d'Études Supérieures Spécialisées (DESS) in Construction and Urban Planning Law - Member of the Hauts-de-Seine Bar
INTRODUCTION
The first technical inspection bureaus (notably Sécuritas and Veritas for its building inspection branch) were created in 1928 and 1929 following building collapses that claimed many victims.
Architects' and contractors' insurers, anxious to be informed about the risks they might be required to cover, intended to make their guarantees conditional on a technical inspection of the work: the reports drawn up by the technical inspectors enabled them to exclude foreseeable risks from their cover, materialized by the reservations mentioned therein.
The main task of the technical inspectors was therefore to inform building insurers about the risks to be covered, and mainly those relating to decennial liability and the stability and durability of structures.
In this way, technical controllers contributed to the standardization of insured risk.
Law no. 78-12 of January 4, 1978 on liability and insurance in the construction industry, now incorporated in the French Construction and Housing Code, and last amended by an ordinance of June 8, 2005, gave status to technical inspection and broke new ground by making technical inspectors stakeholders and responsible parties in the act of building.
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- Critères généraux pour la contribution du contrôle technique à la prévention des aléas techniques dans le domaine de la construction. - AFNOR – NF P 03-100 - (09-95)
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Decree no. 99-443 of May 28, 1999 on the general technical specifications applicable to public technical inspection contracts.
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