5. Our advice

5.1 Be meticulous and exhaustive in your BASOL searches when editing a sales/rental contract.

This will enable you to provide all the information needed to establish whether or not your site is compatible with the uses the future buyer wishes to make of it. In fact, the penalties for non-compliance with articles L. 214-20 and L. 125-7 of Code de l’environnement apply only if the pollution discovered, in addition to the lack of information at the time of sale, leads to incompatibility with the new uses made of the site sold/rented. In addition, future uses of the site are specified in the sale/lease contract. You must therefore, with all the information...