France Fire Standards/Legislation

[Chris Houston]

A friend is about to occupy a building in France.  It hasa manual fire alarm system but he wants to put in detection in the IT room, archive room and canteen.  I don't think it is essential for life safety, but agree it is a wise idea for property protection.

Landlord is refusing to let him incorporate this into the house system (got 3 other tenants and is worried about false alarms).

What stick can we use to beat the landlord with?  Any piece of legislation forces him to allow tenants to do this or any standards we should quote?

Chris.

[nearlythere]

A friend is about to occupy a building in France.  It hasa manual fire alarm system but he wants to put in detection in the IT room, archive room and canteen.  I don't think it is essential for life safety, but agree it is a wise idea for property protection.

Landlord is refusing to let him incorporate this into the house system (got 3 other tenants and is worried about false alarms).

What stick can we use to beat the landlord with?  Any piece of legislation forces him to allow tenants to do this or any standards we should quote?
Chris.

I thought the RRO was European driven legislation. But knowing the French the only ones who comply with the law are those who want to.

[jokar]

The 2 European directives that brought about the Workplace Regulations and then the RR(FS)O came into being in 1989 and were supposed to drive through risk based fire safety throughout Europe.  I have no idea how or if the French took on board the Directives though.