Reminder of HSEES deadlines for March 2026

March 2026 is marked by several major HSE deadlines: prevention passport, GEREP, bio-waste, etc. This reminder summarizes the obligations to anticipate to ensure compliance.

Marie Faucon
Consultante HSE
Publication : 
17.03.2026
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🔎 Key takeaways

  • March 16, 2026 : prevention passport opens to employers, with the obligation to declare health and safety training completed by employees.
  • March 31, 2026 : deadline for submitting bio-waste and "8-stream" waste recovery certificates, including textiles.
  • March 31, 2026 : deadline for the 2025 GEREP declaration.
  • March 31, 2026 : submission of the climate neutrality declaration and its verification report for certain quota-regulated installations.

Please note: This article concerns French legislation. The requirements described may not apply in other countries.

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This monthly summary outlines all new obligations in environment, health and safety, energy, and security to ensure you don't miss any crucial compliance updates.

March 16, 2026: Prevention Passport Opens to Employers

Employers must declare in the prevention passport the safety and prevention training provided to their employees.

To learn more: https://www.tennaxia.com/en/blog/passeport-de-prevention

March 31, 2026: Deadline for Bio-waste Recovery Certificate

Collection or recovery service providers must annually, by March 31, submit to the producers or holders of bio-waste who entrusted them with waste the previous year, a certificate stating the quantities in tons, the nature of the waste they collected separately the previous year for recovery, and its final recovery destination.

To learn more about bio-waste sorting and collection obligations: Bio-waste Source Sorting: Everyone is Concerned - HSE Regulatory - https://hse-reglementaire.com/

31/03/2026: 8-stream waste declaration deadline

Waste recovery facility operators and intermediaries involved in waste collection, transport, trading, or brokerage must submit a declaration annually, by March 31st, to the waste producers or holders who supplied them with paper, metal, plastic, glass, wood, textile, mineral fraction, and plaster waste ("8-stream" waste).

Note that textile waste is newly included in this declaration.

This declaration must state the quantities expressed in tonnes, the nature of the waste entrusted to them in the previous year for recovery or disposal, and their final recovery destinations (type of facility and, newly, geographical location).

31/03/2026: GEREP Declaration for the year 2025

The GEREP declaration for reference year N must be completed on the dedicated website by March 31st of year N+1 at the latest for establishments subject to the GEREP declaration (excluding emission declarations for establishments covered by the Greenhouse Gas Emission Trading Scheme (EU ETS)).

To learn more about the GEREP declaration: Procedures for the annual GEREP declaration of pollutant emissions - https://hse-reglementaire.com/

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31/03/2026: Climate neutrality declaration and corresponding verification report

Operators of installations subject to quotas who are subject to a climate neutrality plan (*) prepare a climate neutrality declaration.

(*)installations whose emission levels are above the 80th percentile of emission levels for the 52 product benchmarks

They must submit this climate neutrality declaration and the corresponding verification report to the competent authority by March 31, 2026, at the latest, for the period up to December 31, 2025.

Note: the declaration template to be used is available at: https://www.ecologie.gouv.fr/politiques-publiques/marches-du-carbone-seqe-ue-installations