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BNI Tax, additional waste taxes,
additional disposal tax, special Andra
contribution and contribution to IRSN
Pursuant to the Environment Code, the ASN Chairman is
responsible for assessing and ordering payment of the BNI
tax, introduced under Article 43 of the 2000 Budget Act
(Act 99-1172 of 30th December 1999). The revenue
generated by this tax, the amount of which is set yearly by
Parliament, came to € 576.96 million in 2015. The proceeds
go to the central state budget.
Furthermore, for nuclear reactors and spent nuclear fuel
reprocessing plants, the “Waste” Act creates three additional
“research“, “support“ and “technological dissemination“
taxes. The revenue from these taxes is allocated to funding
economic development measures and research into
underground disposal and storage by the National Agency for
Radioactive Waste Management (Andra). The revenue from
these taxes represented €157.89 million in 2015, of which
€3.3 million were paid in 2015 to the municipalities and the
local public cooperation bodies situated around the disposal
centre.
In addition, since 2014, ASN has been tasked with assessing
and ordering payment of the special contribution on behalf of
Andra created by Article 58 of the 2013 budget amendment
Act 2013-1279 of 29th December 2013, which will be
payable up until the date of the deep geological disposal
facility’s creation authorisation. In the same way as the
additional taxes, this contribution is due by BNI licensees, as
of the creation of their facility and up until the delicensing
decision. The revenue from this contribution represented
€101.77 million in 2015.
Finally, Article 96 of Act 2010-1658 of 29th December 2010
creates an annual contribution on behalf of IRSN to be paid
by BNI licensees. This contribution is in particular designed to
finance the review of the safety cases submitted by the BNI
licensees. The revenue from this contribution amounted to
€62.52 million in 2015.
UNDERSTAND
4. OUTLOOK
France is engaged in an ambitious energy transition policy
defined by Act 2015-992 of 17 August 2015 concerning
Energy Transition for GreenGrowth. This Act represents
a milestone in the competence of ASN, by reinforcing
its powers of regulation and sanction while at the same
time developing transparency and public information
and participation.
These newmeasures will be implemented in full in 2016.
Even if the Act stipulates that the share of nuclear energy
in the production of electricity is to be halved by 2025,
it will nonetheless remain considerable. The French
nuclear NPP fleet will thus continue to be one of the
largest in the world. Safety will continue to be enhanced,
with reference to the requirements applicable to the new
reactors and by learning the lessons from the Fukushima
Daiichi accident.
In the light of the unprecedented safety challenges it
faces, ASN recalls that in 2014 it asked for an additional
190 staff by the end of 2017 (125 for ASN, 65 for IRSN)
and a budget increase of €36 million (€21 million for
ASN, €15 million for IRSN). Even though the budget
decisions made accorded it an additional 30 staff for the
period 2015-2017 andmaintained its operating credits,
ASNnonetheless remains concerned by the inadequacy
of these budgetary measures.
In the coming years, ASNwill maintain strong ties –while
retaining its full independence –with the other stakeholders
involved in the oversight and information duties, in the
field of nuclear safety and radiation protection. ASNwill
in particular promote the involvement of the stakeholders
in pluralistic working groups, in particular the COFSOH.
Whenpreparing its resolutions, ASNrelies on the opinions
and recommendations of seven Advisory Committees
of Experts (GPE). ASN aims to continue to reinforce the
guarantees of independence of the expertise on which
it relies, and transparency in the process of drafting its
resolutions and decisions.
Moreover, following the IRRSmission inNovember 2014,
ASNwill in2016 continuewith implementationof a specific
action plan designed to address the recommendations
made.
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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