Selling your business or facility under the ICPE (Installations Classées pour l'Environnement - Environmentally Classified Facilities) regime

In the context of the transfer of your business or facility under the ICPE (installations classées pour l'environnement) regime, you may be wondering..:

• on your obligation to inform your successor about the environmental condition of the site?

• how to inform the authorities of a change of operator?

• on how to protect your interests, given your site's environmental liabilities?

The first step is to inform your successor of the environmental condition of the site.

You must then declare the change of operator to the authorities, and in some cases, obtain prior authorization for the change of operator.

Finally, you need to be careful about the clauses of the contract you sign with your successor, so as to transfer or divide up the responsibilities associated with the site's environmental liabilities.