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The list below is an excerpt from publications in French and European official journals concerning environment, energy, and occupational health and safety from November 2025.
ENVIRONMENT
Implementation of the EPR for Professional Packaging
Environmental Code Articles R. 543-42 to R. 543-74: Packaging AMENDED BY Decree No. 2025-1081 of November 17, 2025, concerning packaging and packaging waste and establishing the extended producer responsibility scheme for packaging consumed or used by professionals [JORF of November 18, 2025]
Decree No. 2025-1081 aligns the definitions of packaging, producer, composite packaging, and packaging waste with those of Regulation No. 2025-40 of December 19, 2024, known as the PPWR Regulation. A definition of professional packaging is also added.
Furthermore, it specifies the obligations of holders of professional packaging waste and producers of such packaging, the conditions for the take-back of this waste by the eco-organization, and the packaging excluded under this EPR scheme.
Prevention of plastic pellet losses into the environment throughout the supply chain
Regulation (EU) 2025/2365 of the European Parliament and of the Council of November 12, 2025, on the prevention of plastic pellet losses to reduce microplastic pollution [OJEU of November 26, 2025]
To protect the environment and human health, this regulation frames the modalities for preventing plastic pellet losses throughout the supply chain. Obligations are thus imposed on:
- economic operators who have handled plastic pellets in the Union in quantities equal to or exceeding a threshold of five tonnes during the previous calendar year;
- economic operators operating facilities in the Union for cleaning plastic pellet tanks and containers;
- EU carriers and third-country carriers responsible for transporting plastic pellets into the Union; and
- to shippers and operators, agents and masters of sea-going vessels carrying plastic pellets in containers that depart from or call at a port in a Member State.
Soil Monitoring
Directive (EU) 2025/2360 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 November 2025 on soil monitoring and resilience [OJEU of 26 November 2025]
This Directive aims to:
- establish a robust and coherent soil monitoring framework for all soils across the European Union,
- reduce soil contamination to levels no longer considered harmful to human health and the environment,
- continuously improve soil health in the European Union.
- maintain soils in good health and prevent and address all aspects of soil degradation, with a view to achieving good soil health by 2050 so that they can provide multiple ecosystem services on a sufficient scale to meet environmental, societal, and economic needs, prevent and mitigate the effects of climate change and biodiversity loss, increase resilience to natural disasters and food security, notably by reducing land take.
Member States shall transpose this Directive by 17 December 2028.
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ENERGY
Evolution of equipment requirements for outdoor car parks larger than 1,500 m² with canopies incorporating a renewable energy production process, and arrangements for postponing the regulatory deadline
LAW No. 2023-175 of March 10, 2023, concerning the acceleration of renewable energy production, AMENDED BY LAW No. 2025-1129 of November 26, 2025, simplifying urban planning and housing law [Official Journal of November 27, 2025]
The obligations regarding the installation of canopies incorporating a renewable energy production process on outdoor car parks larger than 1,500 m² are modified.
Thus, to fulfill its obligation to cover at least half of the car park's surface area, the owner (or the concessionaire, delegate, or holder of the public domain occupation permit) may, in particular, install:
- mixed solutions comprising canopies incorporating a renewable energy production process covering at least 35% of half of the car park's surface area, and vegetated devices contributing to shading the remaining surface to be covered, thus allowing for a mix of technologies.
Operators can also now install a renewable energy production system that does not require canopies on only a portion of the surface to be covered (previously this clarification was not provided). This system can therefore be implemented in whole or in part, provided that it allows for production equivalent to that which would result from the installation of canopies incorporating a renewable energy production process on the unequipped surface area.
Other modifications relate to the postponement of regulatory deadlines and their coordination with urban planning documents.
SAFETY
Functional requirements to be met to ensure the safety of people against fire risks
Construction and Housing Code Articles R. 141-1 to R. 141-17: General rules concerning the safety of people against fire risks CREATED BY Decree No. 2025-1100 of November 19, 2025, establishing the conditions for implementing equivalent effect solutions related to fire safety, transferring regulatory provisions concerning fire safety in professional-use buildings (BUP) to the Construction and Housing Code and modifying certain instruction procedures [Official Journal of November 20, 2025]
This regulatory section specifies, in particular, the functional requirements, i.e., the technical properties of the building that enable compliance with general fire safety objectives, possible equivalent solutions, and the content of the fire safety register. These rules particularly concern fire protection measures for professional buildings, public access buildings, and high-rise buildings. These measures come into force on 1st July 2026. Implementing decrees are expected.
Documents to be included in the safety register for Public Access Buildings (ERP)
Construction and Housing Code Articles R. 143-1 to R. 143-47: Public Access Buildings AMENDED BY Decree No. 2025-1100 of November 19, 2025 [Official Journal of November 20, 2025]
The content of the ERP safety register has been modified and supplemented. It must now also include:
- the nominal and hierarchical list of persons belonging to the security service (previously, the list of personnel in charge of the fire service was mentioned);
- the dates of fire safety drills.
Approval, repair and initial verification, installation and post-installation inspection, and periodic inspection of tachographs
Order of October 1, 1981, concerning the approval, initial verification, and post-installation verification of tachographs used in road transport REPEALED AND REPLACED BY Order of October 27, 2025, concerning tachographs [Official Journal of November 15, 2025]
This concerns analog (paper disc), digital (electronic), or smart (associated with a satellite navigation system) tachographs installed on vehicles used for passenger transport of more than 9 people (including the driver) and goods transport vehicles over 3.5 tonnes.
This text specifies the requirements for the approval, repair and initial verification, installation and post-installation inspection, and periodic inspection of tachographs.