Finally, the social dialogue process involved regular meetings between the personnel representatives throughout the year. As part of the creation of ASNR planned as of 1 January 2025, 11 meetings of the merger project consultation commission met in accordance with the agreement signed in December 2023 with the trade unions of ASN and IRSN. This body supplements the personnel representative bodies of each entity and its purpose is to promote consultation between the general management and personnel representatives of ASN and IRSN. This commission thus regularly reviewed the progress of the work involved in the construction of ASNR, and of the draft decrees submitted in parallel with the respective social dialogue bodies of ASN and IRSN. Professional ethics The ethical rules concerning the ASN Commissioners, staff and experts, as set out in several legislative and regulatory texts since 2011, are compiled in the two appendices to the ASN internal rules of procedure adopted in 2018: the first contains provisions regarding the professional ethics of the Commissioners and staff, while the second contains provisions concerning external analysis and assessment performed at the request of ASN, for example by the GPEs (see below). With the aim of preventing conflicts of interest, the rules in force at ASN more specifically include the following declaration obligations: ∙Public Declaration of Interests (DPI) stipulated in Article L. 1451-1 (derived from Act 2011-2012 of 29 December 2011 on strengthening the safety of drugs and health products) and Articles R. 1451-1 et seq. of the Public Health Code: the 4 July 2012 decision CODEPCLG-2012-033820 by the ASN Chairman applies the DPI requirements to the members of the Commission, the management committee and the Advisory Committee of Experts for Radiation Protection for Medical and Forensic Applications of Ionising Radiation (GPMED), now incorporated into the Advisory Committee of Experts for Radiation Protection (GPRP) and the regional delegates and regional division heads. Until mid-July 2017, the DPI were posted on asn.fr. The DPI are henceforth declared on the single on-line declaration site. About 60 people are subject to the DPI; ∙Declarations of Interests and assets to the High Authority for Transparency in Public Life (HATVP) derived from Act 2013-907 of 11 October 2013 on Transparency in Public Life: the members of the Commission submit their declarations on the HATVP website. The same applies to the members of the Administrative Enforcement Committee, the Director General, the Deputy Director Generals, and the General Secretary since 15 February 2017 following modification of the Act of 13 October 2013; ∙“Civil Service” Declaration of Interests, set out in Article L. 122-2 of the General Civil Service Code governed by Decree 2016-1967 of 28 December 2016: the professional ethics coordinator and the ASN staff carrying out labour inspectorate duties in the NPPs are subject to this obligation; ∙management by the ASN Director General of his financial instruments in conditions which preclude all right of review on his part, pursuant to Article L. 122-19 of the General Civil Service Code and Decree 2017-547 of 13 April 2017: the ASN Director General submitted justification data to the HATVP before 2 November 2017. In a decision dated 27 January 2020, the ASN Chairman appointed Alain Dorison as professional ethics officer. He was also appointed as secularity coordinator for internal alerts in this same decision. He was reappointed for a further three-year term by a decision dated 30 January 2023. A procedure (see decision CODEPSGE-2023-024294 by the ASN Chairman of 14 April 2023) for collecting and processing internal whistle-blowing reports from staff or former staff, unsuccessful hiring candidates, outside and occasional contractor staff, or ASN co-contractors, was put into place pursuant to the “Sapin 2” Act 2016-1691 of 9 December 2016, modified by Act 2022-401 of 21 March 2022 and Decree 2022-1284 of 3 October 2022. It enables the person concerned to issue an internal report and also report information concerning a crime, a threat or a prejudice to the general interest, or a breach of the legislation of which they are personally aware or about which they were told as part of their professional activities. Over and above implementation of the obligations recalled above, actions were also taken to raise personnel awareness of the internal professional ethics culture and prevent conflicts of interest. These were for example posting practical documents on-line on the intranet (such as prevention of conflicts of interest and the role of professional ethics oversight of departures to the private sector), the insertion of a module concerning professional ethics rules applicable to ASN staff during training sessions organised for newcomers and a video interview in which the professional ethics coordinator uses a number of examples to describe professional ethics and which actions in a person’s professional life demand particular vigilance. Over the course of 2024, the professional ethics coordinator was contacted for 38 individual cases, broken down as follows: ∙16 opinions on a hiring; ∙8 opinions on continuation of a career; ∙4 opinions on related activities; ∙8 opinions on professional behaviour. Financial resources ASN’s financial resources are presented in point 3. In its opinion 2024-AV-0438 relative to the budget for the oversight and regulation of nuclear safety and radiation protection in France for the years 2024-2025, and in the light of the framework set by Act 2024-450 of 21 May 2024 and the changes to the organisation of regulation and oversight, ASN recalls the need for human and financial resources expressed by ASN and IRSN for the 2025 budget, as an essential pre-condition for achieving the ambitious objectives of the reform. These requests, concerning both credits and jobs, must also enable ASN, and then ASNR, to prepare for the merging of the organisations (notably the convergence of the information systems). ASN management tools ASN’s management tools and, since 1 January 2025, those of ASNR, are more specifically evaluated during peer review missions (Integrated Regulatory Review Service – IRRS), devoted to analysis of the French nuclear safety and radiation protection oversight system. Quality management system To guarantee and improve the quality and effectiveness of its actions, ASN defines and implements a quality management system inspired by the international standards of the IAEA and the International Standard Organisation (ISO). This system is based on: ∙an organisation manual containing organisation notes and procedures, defining the rules to be applied for each task; ∙internal and external audits to check rigorous application of the system’s requirements; ∙listening to stakeholders; ∙performance indicators for monitoring the effectiveness of action taken; ∙a periodic review of the system, to foster continuous improvement. Internal communication By reinforcing the internal culture and reasserting the specific nature of ASN’s remit, rallying the staff around the strategic orientations defined for their missions, and developing strong group dynamics: ASN’s internal communication, in the same way as human resources management, endeavours to foster the sharing of information and experience between teams and professions. 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