WRITTEN QUESTION E-1350/01 by Richard Corbett (PSE) to the Commission. Implementation of Seveso II.
Date: 2001-05-07
Institutions: European Parliament, Provisional data
Subjects: EC Directive, dangerous substance, environmental risk prevention, industrial hazard, national implementing measure, offence

20.12.2001

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

C 364 E/89

(2001/C 364 E/095)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-1350/01

by Richard Corbett (PSE) to the Commission

(7 May 2001)

Subject: Implementation of Seveso II

What arrangements has each Member State made for the implementation of the land use planning sections
of the Seveso II Directive? Are the controls now fully implemented in each Member State?

Where Member States have implemented land use planning controls, has this been done to a nationally
defined standard or has it been done on a local basis?

If controls have been implemented, have the controls been based on a risk assessment of each site? Has the
method by which the distances are calculated been made public?

Answer given by Mrs Wallstr(cid:246)m on behalf of the Commission

(5 July 2001)

The Commission is currently checking the transposition of the Seveso II Directive, Council Directive 96/
82/EC of 9 December 1996 on the control of major-accident hazards involving dangerous substances (1) in
the Member States. Currently, infringement procedures against five Member States for non-communication
or incomplete communication of transposition measures are pending before the Court of Justice (Belgium,
Germany, Ireland, Austria, and Portugal).

As in many cases the transposition of the provisions concerning the land-use planning require measures to
level, different sets of laws, regulations and administrative provisions have to be
be taken at regional
checked for each Member State, and therefore, the process of controlling the transposition of the Directive
is not yet finalised. In most Member States, land use planning is carried out at local level, though under
national/regional guidance or oversight. However, should it show that Member States have not fully
transposed the requirements of Article 12 of the Seveso II Directive, infringement procedures against these
Member States will be initiated in due time.

In order to facilitate the implementation of the provisions of the Seveso II Directive on land use planning,
and in order to promote a consistent application throughout the Community, a guidance document on
land use planning has been elaborated by the Commission in close co-operation with the Member States. It
was published in 1999 and can be received from the Major Accident Hazard Bureau established within the
Joint Research Centre of the Commission (http://mahbsrv.jrc.it/GuidanceDocs.html).

(1) OJ L 10, 14.1.1997.

(2001/C 364 E/096)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-1352/01

by Richard Corbett (PSE) to the Commission

(7 May 2001)

Subject: Tricycles for disabled people

Is the Commission aware that tricycles made for disabled people in one Member State cannot always be
used by disabled people in other Member States because of different rules on whether special licences are
needed and whether disabled people are allowed to drive such vehicles at all?

Does the Commission have any plans to address this issue?