Directive 201218eu of the european parliament and of the council of 4 july 2012 on the control of majoraccident hazards involving dangerous substances, amending and subsequently repealing council directive 9682ec text with eea relevance. Annex i of the convention and the seveso ii directive. The answers are the result of discussions between the european. From 3 february 1999, the obligations of the seveso ii directive 9682ec will become mandatory for industry as well as the public authorities of the member states responsible for the implementation and enforcement of the directive. This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title seveso directive. Pdf seveso accident analysis and safety management. The decreelaw makes no substantive changes to existing rules. Application of the seveso directive in france sciencedirect. This report covers the application of the directive for the period 20092011. It included a revision and extension of the scope of the directive. Seveso ii directive aims at the prevention of major accidents which involve dangerous substances and the limitation of their consequences for man and the environment 2. Where a substance or preparation named in part ii also falls within a category in part i, the threshold quantity set out in part ii shall be used annex i of the seveso ii directive where a substance or group of substances listed in part i also falls within a category of part ii, the qualifying quantities set out in part i must be used. The directive was mostly designed to promote information. Council directive 9682ec of 9 december 1996 on the control of majoraccident hazards involving dangerous substances official journal l 010, 14011997 p.
Article 194 of the directive obliges member states to. By the experience gained during inspections on the sms in establishments covered by seveso ii directive, the unit of the regional agency for environmental protection arpa. A major emission, fire or explosion resulting from. The changes introduced include updating the list of chemicals covered by the directive and strengthening the rights of. The role of planning in preventing major accident hazards. It aims to consider the impact of any changes within the directive on petroleum distribution terminal operators. The ministry of environment and urbanization requested rec turkey to prepare a regulatory impact analysis to assist the implementation and enforcement of the seveso ii directive. Study of the effectiveness of the seveso ii directive. Sevesoiiidirective due to reduced quantities present may wish to comply with the sevesoiiidirective also during this period in order to avoid having to re submit notifications and safety reports. This directive applies to establishments which hold more than specified quantities of substances which are classified as hazardous because of their. The united nations economic commission for europe convention on the transboundary effects of industrial accidents, a result of the combined efforts of the eu and the. In 2012 sevesoiii directive 201218eu was adopted taking into account, amongst others, the changes in the union legislation on the. Impact of the seveso iii directive on petroleum distribution terminal operators 5 foreword this document has been produced following the adoption by the european union eu of an updated version of the seveso directive 201218eu.
The seveso iii directive came into force on 1 june 2015, replacing the seveso ii directive. Annex ii minimum data and information to be considered in the safety report specified in. Major accidents in chemical industry have occurred worldwide. In europe, the seveso accident in 1976 prompted the adop tion of legislation aimed at the prevention and control of such accidents. This directive was named after the 1976 accident at a chemical plant manufacturing pesticides and herbicides in seveso, italy. The seveso directive in 1982, the european unions council directive 82501eec on the majoraccident hazards of certain industrial activities, also known as the seveso directive, was adopted. The seveso ii directive is considered as the legal and technical instrument to fulfil the obligations of the european community arising out of the convention.
Firstly, the directive aims at the prevention of majoraccident hazards involving dangerous substances. Regulatory impact assessment of eu seveso ii directive. Development of seveso directive and its implementation in. Seveso ii directive from 2006 2008 in which all 27 countries participated it is claimed that 20 35 major industrial accidents occur in the framework of. Secondly, as accidents do continue to occur, the directive aims at the limitation of the consequences of such accidents not only for man safety and health aspects but also for the environment.
The answers are the result of discussions between the european commission services and the seveso expert group seg2, and, prior to creation of the latter in 2011, in the committee of competent authorities3. The eu control of major accidents hazards directive seveso ii requires an external emergency plan for each top tier site. This paper sets out a method to build the protection of public health into emergency planning for seveso sites in the eu. Seveso iii directive the seveso directives are the main eu legislation dealing specifically with the control of onshore major accident hazards involving dangerous substances. However, as accidents may nevertheless occur, it also aims at limiting the consequences of such accidents not only for human health but also for the environment. Council directive 9682ec of 9 december 1996 on the control of majoraccident hazards involving dangerous substances as amended is a european union law aimed at improving the safety of sites containing large quantities of dangerous substances. The scope of the seveso ii directive follows a twotier approach which means that for each named substance and for each generic category of substances and preparations, two different qualifying quantities threshold levels are mentioned in annex i, parts 1 and 2 of the directive, a lower and an upper value. Seveso disaster, and the seveso and seveso ii directives. Seveso major accident hazards environment european. Seveso ii amended 2003 triggered by major accidents toulouse, baia mare romania, enschede the netherlands expanded the scope of seveso ii to processing activities in mining, pyrotechnic and explosive manufacturing sites, sites for the storage of ammonium nitrate and similar fertilisers. Decreelaw 1052015 recently transposed the seveso iii directive into italian law. Seveso direktiivi, the seveso directive is well integrated.
Seveso ii definition of seveso ii by medical dictionary. The end result has been the replacement of directive 9682ec of 9 december 1996 seveso ii by directive 201218eu of 4 july 2012 seveso iii, which adopts products specifically denominated by the clp regulation as. Seveso ii amended 2003 triggered by major accidents toulouse, baia mare romania, enschede the netherlands expanded the scope of seveso ii to processing activities in mining, pyrotechnic and explosive manufacturing sites, sites for the storage. Directive 201218eu also known as the seveso iii directive of the european parliament on the control of majoraccident hazards involving dangerous substances, amending and subsequently repealing council directive 9682ec was published on the 4 th of july 2012. For this reason, the european commission along with competent authorities responsible for seveso ii implementation have long held this area as a priority for eu level technical cooperation. The seveso ii directive 9682ec applies to all establishments where dangerous substances are present in sufficiently large quantities to create a majoraccident hazard. The resulting seveso directive now applies to around 10,000 industrial establishments where dangerous substances are used or stored in large quantities, mainly in the chemicals. The seveso directive deals exclusively with the prevention and control of major industrial risks involving dangerous substances. It is also known as the seveso ii directive, after the seveso disaster. The seveso ii directive insists on a major accident prevention policy and a safety management system sms for implementation. Annex i to directive 9682ec lists the dangerous substances falling within its scope, inter alia, by reference to certain provisions of council directive 67548eec of 27 june 1967 on the approximation of the laws, regulations and administrative provisions relating to the classification, packaging and labelling of dangerous substances 6 as well as directive 199945ec of the european parliament and of the council of 31 may 1999 concerning the approximation of the laws, regulations and. The landuse planning aspects are implemented through the planning and development regulations 200120. There is a strongly shared commitment to continuing to work together to increase the effectiveness of.
The clp regulation and its relation with the seveso iii. The sevesoiiidirective 201218eu aims at the prevention of major accidents involving dangerous substances. An eu directive that replaced the original seveso directive i. Inspection guide on the seveso 2 directive 9682ec seveso directive. Seveso ii directive and has been amended to reflect european requirements. Seveso ii directive main requirements response the convention the seveso directive in the event of an industrial accident, or imminent threat thereof, adequate response measures are taken, as soon as possible and using the most efficient practices, to contain. The functioning of the seveso ii directive in an enlarged europe and the european commissions reports on the application of the directive in member states are also discussed. The socalled sevesodirective directive 82501eec was later amended in view of the lessons learned from later accidents such as bhopal, toulouse or enschede resulting into sevesoii directive 9682ec. All seveso classified sites must prepare policies for the prevention of major accidents. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the. This implementation implies the availability of a general system of reference, with a particular chapter devoted to the identification and evaluation of major accident hazards. Seveso directive guide inspections free download as pdf file. Definition of an environmental risk assessment methodology.
The industrial accidents convention and the seveso ii iii. Seveso iii directive transposed into law newsletters. Meanwhile, the acquisition of experience and the occurrence of further accidents over the period of more than a decade, gave rise for the need to put a profound revision process into place, culminating in the adoption, on 9th december,1996, of council directive 9682ec the socalled seveso ii directive. Directive in france landuse planning around industrial facilities disaster prevention workshop, stockholm, 2729 july 2009 dr. The problem modern industrial production processes requires the use of chemical substances. The seveso directive aims at prevention, preparedness and response to accidents involving dangerous substances in industry in the eu. Alongside the regulations, seveso ii requirements are also met through local plans and development management regimes. The information collected is summarized in two points. Emergency planning and the control of major accident. The seveso ii directive applies to some ten thousand industrial establishments where dangerous substances are present. The subject of this report is the council directive on the control of major accident hazards involving dangerous substances, popularly known as the comah directive or, alternatively, seveso 2.