Fire safety in existing hotels
SUMMARY OF:
Council Recommendation 86/666/EEC on fire safety in existing hotels
WHAT IS THE AIM OF THE RECOMMENDATION?
KEY POINTS
Precautions
EU countries are recommended to introduce fire precautions in order to meet 4 objectives:
Principles
EU countries are urged to take action to ensure that hotels are subject to rules based on a series of principles. These include:
Technical guidelines
The annex to the recommendation contains technical guidelines. These relate in particular to:
Inspections
Hotels should be inspected periodically.
Report
In 2001, as envisaged in the recommendation, the European Commission issued a report on the measures EU countries had introduced to apply it. It noted that the impact in the different EU countries depended on the level of protection already in place and on how national law has been transposed. In some countries, national laws already included or even went beyond the recommendation’s technical guidelines or minimum requirements; however, in others, it had only been partially implemented, being applied only to the construction of new hotels or work in existing establishments.
Follow-up
On a related issue, the Commission prepared a report in 2013 on the existing rules on the safety of certain services to consumers at national level across the EU and in Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein. Among other things, this looked at their respective national rules on the safety of tourism accommodation services.
A public consultation on the safety of tourism accommodation services was conducted by the Commission in 2014. Having processed the feedback, the Commission concluded that there was no connection between the existing rules across EU countries, the absence of EU-level regulation due to subsidiarity and risks to consumers.
FROM WHEN DOES THE RECOMMENDATION APPLY?
It has applied since 22 December 1986.
ACT
Council Recommendation 86/666/EEC of 22 December 1986 on fire safety in existing hotels (OJ L 384, 31.12.1986, pp. 60–68)
RELATED ACTS
Report from the Commission on application of the Council Recommendation of 22 December 1986 on fire safety in existing hotels (86/666/EEC) (COM(2001) 348 final of 27.6.2001)
last update 27.06.2016