Control of Major Accident Hazards Involving Dangerous Substances

leading to a serious danger within the functional area of the local competent
authority to people or to the environment,
to prepare, subject to paragraph 3(a), in accordance with Regulation 17 an emergency
plan (in these Regulations referred to as an ‘external emergency plan’) for action
outside the establishment in relation to possible major accidents at the establishment
and which shall include arrangements for co-ordinating off-site action and resources.
(2) A local competent authority shall provide such information from the
external emergency plan to the operator concerned as is relevant to the performance
of the duties of that operator under Regulations 15 and 18.
(3) Where a person is responsible for, or proposes to be responsible for, an
establishment outside the State or in its internal waters and in respect of which a
notification has been given to a local competent authority by virtue of paragraph 1(b)
then –
(a) in preparing the external emergency plan, Regulation 17 shall be construed
as if it did not include paragraph (3), and
(b) the local competent authority shall provide to the said person such
information from the external emergency plan as it considers appropriate.
Supplementary provisions to Regulation 16.
17 (1) An external emergency plan prepared by a local competent authority in
respect of an establishment shall -
(a) fulfil the objectives specified in Article 11(2) of the Directive which are set
out in Part 1 of Schedule 5,
(b) include the data and information laid down in paragraph 2 of Annex IV to
the Directive (which is set out in paragraph 2 of Part 2 of Schedule 5), and
(c) take into account the need to facilitate enhanced co-operation in civil
protection assistance in major emergencies.
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