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A Report on Major Hazards (RoMH) is a document that the owner or operator of every offshore oil and gas installation in EU waters must prepare under Directive 2013/30/EU, adopted after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster, demonstrating that risks to workers and the environment have been reduced to an acceptable level 1. An installation may not start operating until its national competent authority has assessed and accepted the report 1. Each member state must appoint a competent authority for offshore safety that is legally empowered to assess major-hazard reports and is kept functionally separate from the government bodies responsible for the economic development of offshore oil and gas 3. In the Netherlands that competent-authority role sits with SodM 3. The 2016 amendment to the Mijnbouwwet (BWBR0038985) transposed the directive, requiring operators to prepare a major-hazard report before starting offshore production and designating an independent competent authority for safety and environmental supervision 2.
Not in the sources: The passages do not describe what the report must contain in detail, nor the assessment procedure or timelines used by SodM.
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Passage 1: Report on Major Hazards
Directive 2013/30/EU, adopted after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, requires the owner or operator of every offshore oil and gas installation in EU waters to prepare a Report on Major Hazards (RoMH) demonstrating that risks to workers and the environment have been reduced to an acceptable level. An installation may not start operating until its national competent authority has assessed and accepted that report.
Directive 2013/30/EU: the EU's post-Deepwater-Horizon offshore safety lawEUR-Lex / European Commission · eur-lex.europa.eu · retrieved 18 Sep 2026
Passage 2: 2016 offshore safety amendment
A 2016 amendment to the Mijnbouwwet (BWBR0038985) implemented EU Directive 2013/30/EU on the safety of offshore oil and gas operations. It requires operators to prepare a major-hazard report before starting offshore production, designates an independent competent authority for safety and environmental supervision, and folds labour-safety duties into the Arbeidsomstandighedenbesluit (Working Conditions Decree) rather than the Mijnbouwwet itself.
Mijnbouwwet (Mining Act), BWBR0014168 — oil, gas and CO2 storage permitswetten.overheid.nl · wetten.overheid.nl · retrieved 18 Sep 2026
Passage 3: Independent competent authority
The directive requires each member state to appoint a competent authority for offshore safety that is legally empowered to assess major-hazard reports and is kept functionally separate from the parts of government responsible for the economic development of offshore oil and gas resources, to avoid a conflict between promoting extraction and regulating its safety. In the Netherlands this competent-authority role sits with SodM, working alongside the Mijnbouwwet and Arbeidsomstandighedenbesluit provisions that transpose the directive domestically.
Directive 2013/30/EU: the EU's post-Deepwater-Horizon offshore safety lawEUR-Lex / European Commission · eur-lex.europa.eu · retrieved 18 Sep 2026
Sources consulted
- Directive 2013/30/EU: the EU's post-Deepwater-Horizon offshore safety lawEUR-Lex / European Commission · eur-lex.europa.eu · retrieved 18 Sep 2026 · cited
- Mijnbouwwet (Mining Act), BWBR0014168 — oil, gas and CO2 storage permitswetten.overheid.nl · wetten.overheid.nl · retrieved 18 Sep 2026 · cited
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