Overview

• On August 4, a group of 400 residents will file a 'plainte contre X' with the Mulhouse prosecutor accusing Saint-Louis Agglomération and Veolia of supplying PFAS-contaminated water.
• The complaint alleges two years of tap water containing PFAS levels up to 0.459 µg/L—among the highest recorded in France—breaching the 0.1 µg/L safety threshold.
• In April, the Préfecture du Haut-Rhin barred tap water consumption for sensitive populations in 11 communes near Basel-Mulhouse Airport after PFAS detections in late 2023.
• The ministry of Ecological Transition has launched an open-data platform assembling 2.3 million PFAS analyses, offering a nationwide map of contamination in groundwater, surface water and drinking supplies.
• A public consultation has been opened on draft decrees to ban PFAS in everyday consumer items from January 2026 and set a trajectory to cut industrial PFAS emissions by 2030.