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ACTION 11 Incorporate environmental guidelines

and commitments into public procurement

contracts and ensure effective implementation

In view of all the potential impacts identified and the measures

envisaged, Société du Grand Paris has included a range of

environmental requirements in its contracts with companies

responsible for the works, which, in certain areas, go beyond

the regulatory requirements imposed by the environmental

authorisation permits. These requirements are set out in

the environmental charter for worksites and in the

environmental compliance notice, which are contractual

documents for construction contracts. These documents

set out the actions that contractors must implement on all

worksites together with those that apply only to specific sites

given their particular challenges.

Société du Grand Paris asks contractors to comply with

the ISO 140001 standard when drawing up its operational

environmental protection blueprint, a document required in

the contractor’s tender. The blueprint then becomes the

environmental protection plan when work starts on the site.

It provides Société du Grand Paris with information on the

environmental management measures that the contractor

will undertake in order to meet all Société du Grand Paris’s

environmental requirements.

In 2010, Société du Grand Paris conducted a strategic

environmental assessment of the Grand Paris Express

covering all environmental challenges. This assessment

was presented during the public debate that culminated

in the launch of the Grand Paris Express project.

Each line has been declared to be of public utility and

has obtained its environmental authorisation allowing

work to start. For each line, Société du Grand Paris has an

impact study, updated as part of the environmental

authorisation applications, that details the project’s impacts

on all environmental components in both the construction

and operational phases, along with the avoidance, reduction

and compensation measures planned. To determine the

baseline state of the environment into which the future

metro will be integrated, extensive field data was captured

in relation to the various issues: ecological inventories

(fauna and flora), noise measurements, identification of

vibration-sensitive sites, groundwater and soil sampling

and analysis, etc. The impacts were identified and the

avoidance, reduction and/or compensation measures were

defined based on this information, which was cross-

checked with the characteristics of the project.

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