Legislation on the safety devices of swimming pools
The owner of a not closed, privative buried swimming pool with individual or collective use, installed before 01/01/2004, has to equip him with a normalized safety device. All the outdoor private swimming pools are including concerned those of hotels, campsites, residences, vacation centers… Swimming pools put on the ground, inflatable or knockdown are excluded.
To build or make install a private swimming pool, you have to equip him with this safety before the first one put in water. The fitter has to supply you, at the latest during the official acceptance of work, a technical note on the characteristics and the conditions of functioning of this device and inform you about risks of drowning, about prevention measures to be taken and recommendations were attached to the use of the safety device.
You can choose barriers of protection, alarm systems, covers of safety, shelters of swimming pool answering the current standards and,in case of non compliance with these obligations would be is liable to a fine of 45 000 euro.
