• Status

Founded in 1990, INERIS is an EPCIP (French public research body of an industrial and commercial character), under the aegis of the French Ministry for Ecology, Sustainable Development and Spatial Planning .

Located at Verneuil-en-Halatte (Oise), in the Picardy Region (at about 60 km from Paris), INERIS is equipped with physicochemical analysis laboratories and testing and computing facilities that rank among the best in France.

• Missions

To carry out or commission studies and research programmes aimed at preventing the risks brought about by economic activities on health, the safety of persons and property and on the environment, and to provide any services intended to facilitate the adaptation of companies with this objective in mind.

• Organisation

Apart from GeneralManagement, INERIS has 5 operational departments:

- Chronic Risks Department
- Accidental Risks Department
- Ground and undergoround Risks Department
- Certification Department
- Knowledge Building and Marketing Department

As well as 5 functional departments:
- Communications Department
- Scientific Department
- Human Resources Department
- Information Systems Department
- Financial Department

And 3 services:
- Quality Service
- Legal Purchasing Service
- Health and Environmental Safety Service

• Key figures (as of 1st April 2006)

- Budget of 55 million Euros

- 546 employees, including 301 engineers, researchers and managers.

• Quality commitment and deontology

- INERIS is ISO 9001 certified for its study, consultancy, expert appraisal, testing, training and product manufacturing activities. It is COFRAC (French Accreditation Committee) certified for various testing and calibration activities and has been recognised as complying with Good Laboratory Practices in the fields of toxicology and ecotoxicology.

- Deontology charter that sets out the principles that the Institute strives to comply with in carrying out its missions, attaining its objectives and in its relations with its partners.

• Downloadable information documents

INERIS in brief (pdf)

• Contact us

- Head office and other sites