- 42 - per command post (PC). A PUI commission convenes the network 4 times a year to follow-up the corrective measures identified during analysis of operating experience feedback of exercises and actual situations. However, these PUI commissions did not meet in 2010 or 2011 on the Golfech site. The general organisation put into place by the sites for the PUI is satisfactory. The sites will nonetheless need to ensure that the duties of the PUI coordinator are clearly defined in a specific document and that this organisation is robust and does not rely on a single person. In this respect, the PUI correspondent networks are a good initiative. External relations As part of their preparations for management of an emergency, the sites must conclude agreements with the off-site emergency organisations which could be involved in the management of a crisis. The sites must in particular have agreements with the emergency services, including the departmental fire and emergency service (SDIS) and hospitals. The sites must also have information agreements with the offices of the préfets, nearby industrial sites and Météo France. These information agreements are essential during the management of an emergency because they enable events to be anticipated. Moreover, in an emergency situation, the sites can receive assistance from external organisations with additional material and/or human resources. The sites can therefore conclude agreements with neighbouring industrial sites, neighbouring countries, the AMT-C9, the GIE-Intra and the EDF Regional Delegation. If they are to be considered operational, the site agreements concluded with these external organisations must be regularly tested and updated. The information agreements with the offices of the préfet are satisfactory. However, the requirements in terms of the time within which the site needs to inform the office of the préfet are not always clearly defined. Many of these agreements now include delegation of power from the office of the préfet to the site for triggering of the off-site emergency plan (PPI) in the reflex phase. These or other agreements with neighbouring industrial firms, enable the sites concerned to be informed of "hazards related to the industrial environment" in the vicinity of the site. Coastal sites have also drawn up agreements with the offices of the maritime préfets (information in the event of maritime pollution for example). With regard to information concerning meteorological conditions, EDF has a national agreement with Météo France. Concerning extreme weather conditions, the sites conclude specific agreements with the inter-regional offices of Météo France or obtain information through the agreement with the office of the préfet. The Cruas site has taken out a subscription to the météo flash weather bulletin service. Each site has an agreement with the SDIS emergency services which determines the organisation and the resources that can be mobilised in the event of an emergency. This agreement is tested during exercises at least once a year. Some sites will need to clarify the arrangements of this agreement. The agreements concluded with the hospitals are frequently very old: some go back to 1994 or, in the case of the Golfech site's agreement with Agen hospital, even to 1989. The conditions for updating of these agreements are unclear and they are sometimes simply renewed tacitly. Agreements have also been concluded with the SAMU (emergency ambulance service) and the SMUR (emergency medical service) but they are also very old. For example, the Tricastin site's agreement with the SMUR dates back to 1981. Assistance agreements are also signed between neighbouring nuclear sites in each region so that backup can be provided if necessary. Some of these agreements would benefit from being clarified. The assistance agreements with the GIE-Intra and the AMT-C are managed at a national level. The conditions for recourse to the GIE-Intra and the AMT-C are recalled in the PUI for some sites, but others do not seem to be aware of them. There are also agreements between each NPP and the EDF regional delegation. However, for the Cruas site, this agreement has never advanced beyond the draft stage and never been signed. If personnel are evacuated to the fall-back centre, most of the sites have an agreement with a transporter for the provision of buses. However, the possible impact of a transport requisition order from the préfet on the availability of buses in the event of population evacuation following triggering of the PPI, is frequently not considered. On the Cruas site, no measures are currently taken for managing evacuation to the fallback centre. Finally, concerning possible agreements with neighbouring countries, these are primarily the responsibility of the offices of the préfet via the PPI. 9 AMT-C: Thermal Maintenance Agency - Centre
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