ASN Report 2015

2.3.2 Organisation

ASN Commission

The ASN Commission comprises five full-time

Commissioners. Theirmandate is for a period of six years

andmaynot be renewed. TheCommissioners performtheir

duties in complete impartiality and receive no instructions

either from the Government or from any other person or

institution. The President of the Republic may terminate

the duties of a member of the Commission in the event

of a serious breach of his or her obligations.

The Commission defines ASN strategy. More specifically,

it is involved indeveloping overall policy, i.e. the doctrines

and principles that underpin ASN’s main missions of

regulation, inspection, transparency, management of

emergency situations and international relations.

PursuanttotheEnvironmentCode,theCommissionsubmits

ASN’s opinions to theGovernment and issues themainASN

resolutions. It decides on thepublicposition tobe adopted

on themain issueswithinASN’s sphere of competence. The

Commission adopts the ASN internal regulations which

lay down its organisation and working rules, as well as

its ethical guidelines. The Commission’s resolutions and

opinions are published in ASN’s

Official Bulletin.

In 2015, the ASN Commission met 77 times. It issued

25 opinions and 61 resolutions.

ASN central services

TheASNcentral services comprise anExecutiveCommittee,

anOffice of Administration, aManagement andExpertise

Office and eight departments covering specific themes.

Under the authority of the ASN Director-General,

the Executive Committee organises and manages the

departments on a day to day basis. It ensures that the

orientationsdeterminedbytheCommissionarefollowedand

that ASN’s actions are effective. It oversees and coordinates

the various entities.

The role of the departments is the national management

of the activities for which they are responsible. They take

part indrafting the general regulations and coordinate the

actions of the ASN regional divisions.

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TheNuclearPowerPlantDepartment(DCN)isresponsible

for the regulation and monitoring of the safety of the

NPPs in operation, as well as the safety of future power

generating reactor projects. It contributes todevelopment

of regulation/monitoring strategies and ASN actions

on subjects such as facility ageing, reactor service life,

assessment ofNPP safetyperformance, andharmonisation

of nuclear safety in Europe.

The DCN comprises six branches: “Hazards and Safety

Reviews”, “Equipment and Systems Monitoring”,

“Operation”, “Core and Studies”, “RadiationProtection,

Environment andLabour Inspectorate” and “Regulation

and New Facilities”.

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The Nuclear Pressure Equipment Department (DEP)

is responsible for monitoring of safety of pressure

equipment installed in BNIs. It monitors the design,

manufacture andoperationof nuclear pressure equipment

and application of the regulations by themanufacturers

and their subcontractors and by the nuclear licensees.

It alsomonitors the approved organisations performing

the regulation checks on this equipment.

The DEP comprises four Branches: “Design

− “Manufacturing”, “In-serviceMonitoring” and“Relations

with Divisions and Operations”.

ENERGY TRANSITION

FOR GREEN GROWTH ACT

Ordinance 2016-128 of 10th February 2016, issued following

authorisation by the Energy Transition for Green Growth Act,

enables ASN:

• within BNIs, to exercise certain competencies concerning

products and equipment entailing risks (for example

equipment for explosive atmosphere), or chemical products;

• in order to back-up its resolutions, to resort to third party

assessments, inspections and studies at the expense

of the party being assessed or inspected, in a manner

comparable to that used for ICPEs;

• to ensure that public research is tailored to the needs

of nuclear safety and radiation protection.

From left to right: Jean-Jacques Dumont, Philippe Chaumet-Riffaud, Pierre-Franck Chevet,

Philippe Jamet and Margot Tirmarche.

THE COMMISSION

CHAPTER 02:

PRINCIPLES AND STAKEHOLDERS IN THE REGULATION OF NUCLEAR SAFETY AND RADIATION PROTECTION

ASN report on the state of nuclear safety and radiation protection in France in 2015