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The lockdown of the population ordered in response to the Covid-19 epidemic has had an impact on air quality. As a result of the restrictions being imposed, there has been a fall in economic activity, and therefore a sharp drop in air-pollutant emissions from road traffic and industries. In fact, concentrations of nitrogen dioxide (NO2), one of the main tracers for these activities, in the ambient air of France’s major cities only reached half their expected levels.

Since 2 March, Ineris has taken measures to ensure that its operations can continue, all while continuing to provide suitable working conditions that will not pose a threat to its employees’ health.

Ineris and the French General Directorate for Civilian Security and Crisis Management (DGSCGC) within the Ministry of the Interior have signed a new three-year partnership agreement.

Christmas decorations can contain rather concerning chemicals. Thanks to the LIFEAskREACH project, which Ineris takes part in, consumers will soon find learning about the content of what they buy easier, and businesses will have improved opportunities to impart information on their products.

The public-private PEPPER platform (public-private platform for the pre-validation of testing methods on endocrine disruptors) is the result of a project led by Ineris and has just been created. Its objective is to organise the pre-validation of methods for characterising endocrine disruptors.

Ineris (the French National Institute for Industrial Environment and Risks) is a partner of the RISSC project, the objective of which is to improve and provide shared tools dealing with safety and town and country planning in order to manage risks caused by underground cavities of anthropogenic (quarries, etc.) and natural (karsts) origin on a cross-border scale (France/Belgium, Hauts-de-France/Wallonia).

At the end of October, Ineris Formation, training subsidiary of Ineris, trained 8 Spanish professionals from SGS, the world leader in inspection, control, analysis and certification.

The launch meeting for the European SUMAD project (Sustainable Use of Mining Waste Dumps) was held on 2 and 3 October 2019, in Nottingham (United Kingdom). Ineris is a partner.

The public authorities called upon the Institute to provide technical support to help manage the accident that occurred on Thursday 26 September at the Lubrizol site in Rouen, classified as a Seveso high-threshold installation.

In September 2019, Ineris performed a LiDar 3D survey of the shores of the artificial Most lake (Czech Republic). Seventy-five metres deep, this lake was created by flooding an old open-pit lignite mine.