Seveso sites in Germany

[joost_schouppe]

In Belgium, Luxemburg and France, it’s quite easy to find data about which sites have so called “Seveso risks” (i.e. industrial sites that need to follow the Seveso-III directive. For Germany (in particular the Lander bordering Belgium), I could only find such data for Saarland. It’s my understanding the directive includes an obligation to inform the public, but it seems that responsibility is fractured in Germany. It appears data is very hard to come by.
I also had a look at the seveso key in OSM in Germany, but it doesn’t appear to be used.
Are you familiar with data sources for this topic? Is there some other key in use in Germany to indicate these facilities

[stephan_t]

@joost_schouppe

I also had a look at the seveso key in OSM in Germany, but it doesn’t appear to be used.

Maybe we Germans are too much used to the phrase “Seveso is everywhere”

@joost_schouppe

Is there some other key in use in Germany to indicate these facilities

A search vor “seveso” in the osm-wiki does not show much results. so it seems unlikely.

The Tag:seveso=seuil bas and Tag:seveso=seuil haut pages of our wiki are pretty useless copy-paste-style documentation.

The english terms can be found at:

English Wikipedia: “Directive 2012/18/EU or the Seveso-III Directive”

Establishments covered by Seveso are split into two categories:

• Lower-tier: Dangerous substances are present above a certain threshold set out in Annex I of the Directive.
• Upper-tier: Establishments with dangerous substances present in even greater quantities, requiring more stringent controls to prevent and minimise the consequences of major accidents.

or directly at:

Directive - 2012/18 - EN - Seveso III - EUR-Lex
under “Article 3, Definitions”

Looking at the taginfo values for the key “seveso”

OSM key values         Google Translate           en.WikiPedia
Lagedrempelinrichting  Low-threshold facility  -> lower-tier
Hogedrempelinrichting  High-threshold facility -> upper-tier
seuil bas              low threshold           -> lower-tier
seuil haut             high threshold          -> upper-tier

we might want to unify them with the English terms.

Back to your original question, and looking for a source of that info i only found eSPIRS and the copyright note does not look promising:

Please note that this data was received by the Commission from the National Seveso Competent Authorities, who are the owner and responsible of the data. It is disclosed for information only [and cannot be re-used without the agreement of the originator, who holds a copyright on it]. It does not reflect the position of the Commission and cannot be quoted as such.

It also has an excuse for some lack in transparency:

Member States are allowed to make certain establishment information confidential, and therefore, not available to the public, for any of the reasons indicated in Directive 2003/4/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 28 January 2003 on public access to environmental information.