#TECL2602225ARules for Calculating France’s Water Pollution Fee on PFAS Discharges
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This order sets the technical rules for measuring PFAS discharges used to calculate France’s water pollution fee. It applies to certain regulated industrial installations that release taxable per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, including TFA, into wastewater. Operators must use specified analytical standards or equivalent methods, work with accredited or approved laboratories, sample under normal operating conditions, and monitor discharge flow daily. Businesses covered by the listed industrial categories will need reliable sampling, testing, and documentation systems to support the fee calculation.
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Key Changes
- Sets approved analytical methods for measuring taxable PFAS, including separate rules for TFA
- Requires analyses to be carried out by accredited or approved laboratories
- Defines sampling and flow-monitoring conditions for calculating the water pollution fee
Obligations
What this law requires
Use ISO 21675:2019 or an equivalent analytical method to measure taxable PFAS substances other than trifluoroacetic acid (TFA) in wastewater effluents for the water pollution fee calculation.
Use DIN 38407-053:2025 or an equivalent analytical method to measure trifluoroacetic acid (TFA) in wastewater effluents for the water pollution fee calculation.
Have the required PFAS and TFA analyses performed by a laboratory or body accredited by COFRAC, by a body that is party to the European accreditation multilateral agreement, or, failing that, by a laboratory or body approved by the environment minister under the applicable environmental code provisions.
Take effluent samples at a point representative of the quantity of taxable substances discharged by the activity, except where the special case in Article 3 applies.
Carry out effluent sampling under conditions representative of the installation’s normal activity.