1. Identify the regulatory requirements and technical specifications applicable to your installations

You need to start by identifying the regulatory requirements and technical specifications that apply to your installations.

While regulatory requirements are a matter of administrative procedure (verification of the administrative regime applicable to facilities, submission of a regular and complete registration application file, commissioning when the registration decision is made), technical requirements are set out in ministerial orders on general requirements. These orders apply to each of the headings in the nomenclature, and apply automatically to new facilities. They also specify the deadlines and conditions under which they apply to existing facilities. Technical specifications cover, for example, the size of retention basins, fire-retardant walls or doors, access for firefighters, emission limit values for water or air, permissible emergence for noise,...