ASN Report 2018

2.4.4  –  The Local Information Committees and the National Association of Local Information Committees and Commissions (Anccli) The Local Information Committees (CLI) for BNIs are tasked with a general duty of monitoring, information and consultation on the subject of nuclear safety, radiation protection and the impact of nuclear activities on humans and the environment, with respect to the site or sites which concern them. They may request expert assessments or have measurements taken on the installation’s discharges into the environment. The CLIs, whose creation is incumbent upon the President of the General Council of the département , comprise various categories of members: representatives of département General Councils, of the municipal councils or representative bodies of the groups of communities and the Regional Councils concerned, members of Parliament elected in the département , representatives of environmental protection associations, economic interests and representative trade union and medical profession union organisations, and qualified personalities. The status of the CLIs was defined by the TSN Act of 13 June 2006 and by Decree 2008-251 of 12 March 2008. It was reinforced by the 2015 TECV Act. The duties and activities of the CLIs are described in chapter 5.
 The roles of the Anccli are to represent the CLIs in dealings with the national and European authorities and to provide assistance to the commissions with regard to questions of common interest. 2.5  ̶  ASN Technical support organisations ASN benefits from the expertise of technical support organisations to prepare its decisions. IRSN is the main one. For several years now, ASN has been devoting efforts to ensuring greater diversification of its experts. 2.5.1  –  IRSN IRSN was created by Act 2001-398 of 9 May 2001 setting up a French environmental health safety agency and by Decree 2002-254 of 22 February 2002 as part of the national reorganisation of nuclear safety and radiation protection regulation, in order to bring together public expert assessment and research resources in these fields. These texts have since been modified, notably by Article 186 of the TECV Act and Decree 2016-283 of 10 March 2016 concerning IRSN. IRSN reports to the Ministers for the Environment, Defence, Energy, Research and Health respectively. Article L. 592-45 of the Environment Code specifies that IRSN is a State public industrial and commercial institution which carries out expert analysis and assessment and research missions in the field of nuclear safety – excluding any responsibility as nuclear licensee. IRSN contributes to information of the public and publishes the opinions requested by a public authority or ASN, in consultation with them. It organises the publicity of scientific data resulting from the research programmes run at its initiative, with the exception of those relating to defence matters. For the performance of its missions, ASN receives technical support from IRSN. As the ASN Chairman is now a member of the IRSN Board, ASN contributes to setting the direction of IRSN’s strategic planning. ASN international audits (IRRS missions) IAEA’s IRRS (Integrated Regulatory Review Service) missions are designed to improve and reinforce the efficiency of national nuclear regulatory frameworks, while recognising the ultimate responsibility of each State to ensure safety in this field. These missions take account of regulatory, technical and strategic aspects, make comparisons with IAEA Safety Standards and, as applicable, take account of best practices observed in other countries. These audits are the result of the European Nuclear Safety Directive which requires a peer review mission every ten years. Record of missions in France 2006 : ASN hosted the first IRRS (Integrated Regulatory Review Service) mission concerning all the activities of a safety regulator. 2009: IRRS follow-up mission. 2014: new review mission extended to include management of security/safety interfaces. 2017: follow-up mission in October to assess the steps taken following the review carried out at the end of 2014, with the following findings and recommendations: ཛྷ ཛྷ implementation of measures to address 14 of the 16 recommendations; ཛྷ ཛྷ achievement of significant progress in improving its management system; ཛྷ ཛྷ drafting of general policy principles including safety culture aspects in training, self-evaluation and management; ཛྷ ཛྷ achievement of efficiency gains across all activities; ཛྷ ཛྷ need to continue improving resources management to ensure that they enable future challenges to be met, more particularly the periodic safety reviews, the NPP operating life extension, the graded approach to issues, plus new responsibilities, such as supervision of the supply chain and the security of radioactive sources. The reports for the 2006, 2009, 2014 and 2017 IRRS missions are available for consultation on asn.fr . ASN considers that the IRRS missions make a significant contribution to the international safety and radiation protection system. ASN is thus closely involved in hosting missions in France and it was the first safety regulator to have hosted two full IRRS missions, including the follow-up missions. It is also closely involved in the review teams carrying out missions in other countries, as will be the case in Germany and United Kingdom in 2019. 122  ASN report on the state of nuclear safety and radiation protection in France in 2018 02 – THE PRINCIPLES OF NUCLEAR SAFETY AND RADIATION PROTECTION AND THE REGULATION AND OVERSIGHT STAKEHOLDERS