- 208 - ASN will also require the licensees to send it a list of the skills required for emergency management, specifying whether these skills could be provided by outside contractors. The licensees shall demonstrate that their organisation can ensure the availability of the skills required in the event of an emergency, in particular in the event of the possible use of outside contractors. Finally, ASN will require that the licensees provide their personnel liable to intervene in extreme situations with training and preparation to guarantee their readiness for mobilisation in such situations and that they ensure that the outside contractors liable to intervene in emergency management adopt similar requirements in terms of the preparation and training of their own personnel. The Fukushima accident demonstrated that the ability of the licensee and, as applicable, of its contractors to coordinate their organisation to work together in a severe accident situation is a key aspect of managing such situations. This ability to organise is also an essential factor in the prevention of these accidents, the maintenance of the installations and the quality of their operation. Therefore the conditions concerning the use of subcontracting are of particular importance and must enable the licensee to retain full oversight and complete responsibility for the safety of its facility. Based on the complementary safety assessment reports, ASN considers that the monitoring of subcontractors performing activities important for safety needs to be enhanced, and in particular that this monitoring must not be delegated The ASN draft order setting out the general rules applicable to basic nuclear installations, makes provision for this accordingly.. ASN also considers that EDF's proposal to limit subcontracting to 3 tiers is an interesting one that merits further examination. Moreover, ASN will be continuing its ongoing examination of the management of subcontracting, based on the evaluations made at its request by IRSN and the advisory committee of experts, as well as on the conclusions of its targeted inspections. ASN recommends that research on these subjects be initiated at either a national or a European level. Finally, ASN will propose setting up a working group on these subjects, involving the licensees, the trade union organisations, the HCTISN, the ministry for labour and the ministries responsible for nuclear safety. In addition, ASN considers that the renewal of the licensees' personnel ans skills, at a time when one generation is replacing another and when considerable work is required as a consequence of the CSAs, is a fundamental point. ASN will be attentive to this issue.
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