For lower-tier establishments, the obligation to implement the MAPP may be fulfilled by other appropriate means, structures and management systems, proportionate to major-accident hazards, taking into account the principles set out in Annex III.

description of the main activities and products of the parts of the establishment which are important from the point of view of safety, sources of major-accident risks and conditions under which such a major accident could happen, together with a description of proposed preventive measures.

a list of establishments where particular external risks or hazard sources could increase the risk or consequences of a major accident.

Whereas Council Directive 82/501/EEC of 24 June 1982 on the major-accident hazards of certain industrial activities (4) and Council Directive 96/82/EC of 9 December 1996 on the Control of major-accident hazards involving dangerous substances (5) aim at the prevention of major accidents and the limitation of their consequences for man and the environment; whereas these Directives contain provisions concerning transboundary cooperation;

(17) Whereas, in order to demonstrate that all that is necessary has been done to prevent major accidents, to prepare contingency plans and response measures, the operator should, in the case of establishments where dangerous substances are present in significant quantities, provide the competent authority with information in the form of a safety report containing details of the establishment, the dangerous substances present, the installation or storage facilities, possible major accidents and the management systems available, in order to prevent and reduce the risk of major ...[+++] accidents and to enable the necessary steps to be taken to limit the consequences thereof;

(ii) identification and evaluation of major hazards - adoption and implementation of procedures for systematically identifying major hazards arising from normal and abnormal operation and the assessment of their likelihood and severity;