What is a public service establishment (ERP)?
Verified 26 April 2022 - Directorate for Legal and Administrative Information (Prime Minister)
Facilities receiving the public (ERP) are buildings, premises and enclosures in which outsiders are admitted. For example, a school, a business, an amusement park are LES.
Access is paid or free, free, restricted or by invitation.
Please note
a company that is not open to the public, but only to staff, is not an LES.
For the application of the fire safety regulations, ERP are classified by category and by type.
The ranking proposed by the developer is approved by the departmental security committee.
ERPs are classified as 5 categories according to their capacity. Employees are counted with the public admitted to the establishment except for the 5e category.
Eligible workforce | Category |
|---|---|
Over 1500 people | 1 |
From 701 to 1500 people | 2 |
From 301 to 700 people | 3 |
Up to 300 people | 4 |
Below the thresholds set for 5e category | 5 |
ERPs are classified by type according to the nature of their holding. The type is designated by a letter. The number of persons admitted shall be determined in accordance with the provisions specific to each type of establishment.
Nature of the holding | Type | Threshold for 5e category | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
In the basement | In stages | All levels | ||
Reception structure for elderly people | J | / | / | 25 residents (100 total staff) |
Reception facilities for disabled people | J | / | / | 20 residents (100 total staff) |
Hearing room, conference room, meeting room, betting room, room reserved for associations, neighborhood room, multimedia room, multi-purpose room, multi-purpose room with a sports-dominated area greater than or equal to 1,200 m2 or with a ceiling height of less than 6,50 m Other multipurpose room not specified in Chapter 12 type X article X1 | L | 100 | / | 200 |
Show room, projection room (including non-fairground circuses), cabarets | L | 20 | / | 50 |
Retail stores | M | 100 | 100 | 200 |
Restaurants or drinking outlets | N | 100 | 200 | 200 |
Hotels or family pensions | O | / | / | 100 |
Dance rooms or game rooms | P | 20 | 100 | 120 |
Nursery schools, crèches, drop-in centers, kindergartens | R | Prohibited activity | 20 (if the establishment has only 1 floor) | 100 |
Nursery home | R | 16 | ||
Other educational institutions | R | 100 | 100 | 200 |
Establishments with sleeping quarters | R | / | / | 30 |
Libraries or documentation centers | S | 100 | 100 | 200 |
Exhibition rooms | T | 100 | 100 | 200 |
Health care facilities | U | / | / |
|
Establishments of worship | V | 100 | 200 | 300 |
Administrations, banks, offices | W | 100 | 100 | 200 |
Sports establishments covered | X | 100 | 100 | 200 |
Museums | Y | 100 | 100 | 200 |
High-altitude hotels and restaurants | OA | 20 | ||
Air Stations | GA | 200 | ||
Outdoor Establishments | PA | 300 | ||
Capitals and tents | STC | 50 | ||
Floating establishment | EF | |||
Underground and mixed stations and floating establishments are never classified in 5, regardless of their sizee category.
Example :
A library that accommodates less than 200 people is classified as type S of 5e category. A library that accommodates between 200 and 300 people is classified as type S of 4e category.
In order to welcome the public, the establishment respects accessibility rules for persons with disabilities.
One authorization to open to the public must be requested from the mayor by the operator of the facility receiving the public.
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Security obligations
Classification of establishments.
Book I - Provisions applicable to all LES (classification, adaptations of security rules, special cases, control of LES)
Book II - Provisions applicable to establishments in the first four categories
Book III - Provisions for Category 5 LES
Provisions applicable to ERPs located within an existing built environment and to existing facilities open to the public
Ministry of the Environment
Paris Police Department