Commission Implementing Decision of 10 December 2014 establishing the format for communicating the information referred to in Article 21(3) of Directive 2012/18/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council on the control of major-accident hazards involving dangerous substances (notified under document C(2014) 9334) (Text with EEA relevance) (2014/895/EU)

All fields with an asterisk are mandatory.

Confidential information shall be marked as such with an indication for each type of data, of the grounds for refusal in accordance with Article 4 of Directive 2003/4/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council^f1.

For security purposes, the Member State user will only be able to access eSPIRS by registering in ECAS, the European Commission Authentication System, by providing the following mandatory user information:

Once the user has been authenticated, (s)he will be directed to the Major Accident Hazard Bureau's MINERVA portal where eSPIRS is housed. The user rights for the eSPIRS database will be granted according to the user role.

The user shall provide the information listed below using either the online reporting format allowing to import data for each establishment separately, or a national exporting tool using the eSPIRS XML template for automatic import of the information included in its national/regional/local establishment database(s) into eSPIRS.

1. (a)

   Seveso status*: [According to Seveso III there are two establishment tier statuses: upper tier and lower tier]

2. (b)

   Name*: Name of Seveso establishment reported in eSPIRS

3. (c)

   Parent Company: Holding company/parent company of the establishment

4. (d)

   Personalized code: Code the user can enter if (s)he wants to still use the old code system in eSPIRS

5. (e)

   Industry type and/or NACE Code*: Where an establishment relates to more than one SPIRS and/or NACE code, a distinction shall be made between primary activity and secondary activities.

   1. (1)

      Industry type to be indicated in accordance with the Seveso SPIRS Codes:

      1. (1)

         Agriculture

      2. (2)

         Leisure and sport activities (e.g. ice rink)

      3. (3)

         Mining activities (tailings and physicochemical processes)

      4. (4)

         Processing of metals

      5. (5)

         Processing of ferrous metals (foundries, smelting, etc.)

      6. (6)

         Processing of non-ferrous metals (foundries, smelting, etc.)

      7. (7)

         Processing of metals using electrolytic or chemical processes

      8. (8)

         Petrochemical/Oil Refineries

      9. (9)

         Power generation, supply and distribution

      10. (10)

          Fuel storage (including heating, retail sale, etc.)

      11. (11)

          Production, destruction and storage of explosives

      12. (12)

          Production and storage of fireworks

      13. (13)

          LPG production, bottling and bulk distribution

      14. (14)

          LPG storage

      15. (15)

          LNG storage and distribution

      16. (16)

          Wholesale and retail storage and distribution (excluding LPG)

      17. (17)

          Production and storage of pesticides, biocides, fungicides

      18. (18)

          Production and storage of fertilizers

      19. (19)

          Production of pharmaceuticals

      20. (20)

          Waste storage, treatment and disposal

      21. (21)

          Water and sewage (collection, supply, treatment)

      22. (22)

          Chemical installations

      23. (23)

          Production of basic organic chemicals

      24. (24)

          Plastic and rubber manufacture

      25. (25)

          Production and manufacturing of pulp and paper

      26. (26)

          Wood treatment and furniture

      27. (27)

          Textiles manufacturing and treatment

      28. (28)

          Manufacture of food products and beverages

      29. (29)

          General engineering, manufacturing and assembly

      30. (30)

          Shipbuilding, shipbreaking, ship repair

      31. (31)

          Building and works of engineering construction

      32. (32)

          Ceramics (bricks, pottery, glass, cement, etc.)

      33. (33)

          Manufacture of glass

      34. (34)

          Manufacture of cement, lime and plaster

      35. (35)

          Electronics and electrical engineering

      36. (36)

          Handling and transportation centres (ports, airports, lorry parks, marshalling yards, etc.)

      37. (37)

          Medical, research, education (including hospitals, universities, etc.)

      38. (38)

          General chemicals manufacture (not otherwise specified in the list)

      39. (39)

          Other activity (not otherwise specified in the list)

   2. (2)

      NACE code: NACE is the European industry standard related to a statistical classification of economic activities, consisting of a 6-digit code. The user may want to relate the Seveso establishment to this classification scheme, referring to the first 4 digits, in addition or as an alternative to the SPIRS codes.

6. (f)

   Link to the website including further information on the establishment*

7. (g)

   E-PRTR ID: Where the establishment is, fully or partly, covered by Regulation (EC) No 166/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council^f1, provide the national unique identifier used for the reporting of the facility under that Regulation, as well as the link to the relevant website.

8. (h)

   IED ID (from 2016 data onwards): Where the establishment is, fully or partly, covered by Directive 2010/75/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council^f2 (http://ec.europa.eu/environment/air/pollutants/stationary/ied/legislation.htm), provide all relevant national unique installation identifiers for the purposes of that Directive, as well as the link to the relevant website.

9. (i)

   Establishment comments: comments the user may want to add regarding the reported establishment