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11. CCA Dublin, IrelandCCA Workshop on Safety

Reports

Tobias BiermannEuropean Commission

Environment Directorate-GeneralUnit ENV.A.5

B-1049 Brusselstel +32-2-29-62573fax +32-2-29-90314

e-mail: Tobias.Biermann@cec.eu.int

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CCA Workshop on Safety Reports

– Current Situation

– Existing Guideline

– Amendment

Amendment of the Seveso II Directive and implication on Safety Reports

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Current Situation Seveso II

Operators of establishments covered by Articles 6 and 9 (so called upper tier establishments) need to establish a Safety Report.

The Seveso II Directive had to be transposed not later than 3 February 1999.

The specific deadline for sending safety reports was 3 February 2001, for establishments not previously covered by Seveso I 3 February 2002.

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Current Situation Seveso II

Situation End 2002:

- 3278 upper tier establishments were reported from the 15 Member States

- The number of establishments that have submitted safety reports as required under Article 9 of the Directive is 2870 (on average 88 %).

- 1129 or 39 % of the submitted safety reports had been examined

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Current Situation Seveso II

% Safety Reports submitted

60,6

91,3 90,4 87 88,4

70,1

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91,4 91,7100 100

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Current Situation Seveso II

% Safety Reports examined

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57,1

23,1

54,3

72,855,6

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31,54

92,7

22,7

92,5

63,9

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Existing GuidanceExisting Guidance

GUIDANCE ON THE PREPARATION OF A SAFETY REPORT

TO MEET THE REQUIREMENTS OF COUNCIL DIRECTIVE 96/82/EC

(SEVESO II)G.A. Papadakis, A. Amendola

(Editors) 1997

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Existing GuidanceExisting Guidance

Sections1. Description of the establishment 2. Hazard Identification and Risk

Assessment3. Information concerning Major Accident

Prevention Policy and Emergency Planning

- Annexes, about 250 References

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Amendment

DIRECTIVE 2003/105/EC OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 16 December 2003 AMENDING COUNCIL DIRECTIVE  96/82/EC

published in the Official Journal on 31 December 2003, Celex Nr. 32003L0105.

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Transposition:

Article 2 (1) Member States shall bring into force laws … to comply with this Directive before 1 July 2005

(2) Member States shall communicate to the Commission the text of the main provisions of national law which they adopt …

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Amendment

Modifications Article 9 “Safety report”

1. The safety report … shall name the relevant organisations involved in the drawing up of the report.

2. The safety report shall be sent to the competent authority within the following time limits: for establishments which subsequently fall within the scope of this Directive, without delay, but at all events within one year after the transposition deadline 1. July 2005.

3. Annex II (Minimum Data), point IV B:Assessment of the extent and severity of the consequences of identified major accidents including maps, images or, as appropriate, equivalent descriptions, showing areas which are liable to be affected by such accidents arising from the establishment …

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Amendment

The following point is added to Article 9(6):

"(d) The Commission is invited to review by 31 December 2006 in close cooperation with the Member States, the existing "Guidance on the Preparation of a Safety Report."

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Amendment

Review the guidance by 31 December 2006?

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Brainstorming Meeting

12 May 2004

Brainstorming Meeting

12 May 2004