Vulnerability
Définition
Sens technique
Fragility and susceptibility when facing a given hazard or a given pressure.Source
According to SOeS
Risk
Flood-prone areas plan
Définition
Sens technique
Document that establishes a public easement affecting land use. It allows the administration to oppose any action or work likely to impede the free flow of water or the conservation or floodplains.Source
According to the Ministry for the Environment
Compliance action
Définition
Sens commun
Action to change and improve the concerned facilities to comply with the regulations affecting them.
Source
According to the Ministry of Ecology
Hazard
Définition
Sens commun
Nature, occurrence, intensity and duration of a threatening phenomenon.Source
According to SOeS
Provisional classification
Définition
Sens réglementaire
Health classification of a shellfish farming area, based on results whose number does not establish a permanent classification, but allows a reliable assessment of the level of contamination. The provisional classification is replaced by a permanent classification when the number of required analyses is available.Source
According to the Ministry of Agriculture and IOWater
Health classification
Définition
Sens réglementaire
Classification assigned to shellfish farming areas defined by prefectural order. The health classification is based on microbiological analyses (at least 26 values obtained over a year) and the analysis of Source
According to the Ministry of Agriculture and IOWater
Prefect’s management order
Définition
Sens réglementaire
Decision issued by the local competent authority (the Prefect), limited in time, to restrict or prohibit the use of shells from an area, because of proven specific microbiological, phycotoxin or chemical contamination…Source
According to the Ministry of Agriculture and IOWater
Prefect’s classification order
Définition
Sens réglementaire
Decision issued by the local competent authority (the prefect), intended for classifying mollusc farming areas according to their overall level of contamination. This health classification has a direct impact on…Source
According to the Ministry of Agriculture and IOWater
Area for flood storage purpose
Définition
Sens technique
Natural or agricultural floodplain (not currently urbanized), that can be extended to floods whose occurrence is higher than the hundred-year flood, as part of a hydrogeomorphical approach. When local stakes require it (level of hazards, areas considered important, etc), floodplains, which, at the date of approval of the river basin management plan (SDAGE), are classified "to be urbanized" but are not yet highly urbanized, may be considered, for their part not yet urbanized, as areas for flood storage purpose.
Source
According to Rhine-Meuse Water Agency