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François MAUVAIS: Divisional agricultural and environmental engineer
INTRODUCTION
In France, local authorities, most often in the form of public establishments for inter-communal cooperation, are the entities that make investments in the water sector. In fact, by law, communes and their groupings are responsible for building and managing facilities for the supply, collection, production, potabilization, pressurization, storage and distribution of drinking water, for the collection and treatment of wastewater, and for the development, maintenance and management of rivers and aquatic environments.
In the remainder of this document, we will neglect investments made by private contractors.
These investments must be carried out in compliance with public procurement rules (public procurement code (decree no. 2006-975 of 1
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August 2006, see
It is then up to the client and, where applicable, his advisors, to take all the necessary steps to build a structure that meets the technical and economic requirements set out in the contract, while also ensuring that it blends into its immediate surroundings, taking into account its social, cultural and architectural dimensions.
The combined intervention of multiple players - design offices, architects, project managers, contractors - each with a contractual link to the public purchaser, but with no contractual link between them, demands extreme clarity in their respective tasks, exemplary rigor on the part of everyone involved, and the necessary coordination, which must be permanent throughout the duration of the operation to guarantee the quality of the investment.
The procedures described here are those of the French legislative and regulatory context, analyzing the applicable texts, in particular the General Code of Local Authorities, the Environmental Code and the Public Procurement Code, themselves referring to other documents, circulars, guides and other application documents. Nevertheless, the methodological approach outlined in these guidelines means that they can be applied worldwide.
The water sector represents a considerable amount of annual investment – of the order of 6 billion euros – mobilizing public funds from water agencies, general councils and, above...
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Regulations
Arrêté du 21 décembre 1993 précisant les modalités techniques d'exécution des éléments de mission de maîtrise d'œuvre confiés par des maîtres d'ouvrage publics à des prestataires de droit privé [NOR : EQUU9301426A] (JORF n° 10 du 13 janvier 1994, page 713)
Arrêté du 22 décembre 1994 fixant les prescriptions techniques relatives aux ouvrages de collecte et de traitement des eaux usées mentionnées aux...
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