ASN Report 2017

71 ASN report on the state of nuclear safety and radiation protection in France in 2017 Chapter 02  - The principles of nuclear safety and radiation protection and the regulation and oversight stakeholders 2.3.2 Organisation ASN Commission The ASN Commission comprises five full-time Commissioners. Their mandate is for a period of six years and may not be renewed. The Commissioners perform their 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 in developing 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. Pursuant to the Environment Code, the Commission submits ASN’s opinions to the Government and issues the main ASN regulations and decisions. It decides on the public position to be adopted on the main issues within ASN’s sphere of competence. The Commission adopts the ASN internal rules of procedure which set out its organisation and working rules, as well as its ethical guidelines. The Commission’s decisions and opinions are published in ASN’s Official Bulletin . In 2017, the ASN Commission met 86 times. It issued 17 opinions and 42 decisions. ASN head office departments The ASN head office departments comprise an Executive Committee, an Office of Administration, a Management and Expertise 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 orientations determined by the Commission are followed and that ASN’s actions are effective. It oversees and coordinates the various entities. The role of the departments is to manage national affairs concerning the activities under their responsibility. They take part in defining the general regulations and coordinate and oversee the actions of the ASN regional divisions. ཛྷ ཛྷ The Nuclear Power Plant Department (DCN) is responsible 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 to the development of regulation/monitoring strategies and ASN actions on subjects such as facility ageing, reactor service life, assessment of NPP safety performance and harmonisation of nuclear safety in Europe. The DCN comprises six branches: “Hazards and Safety Reviews”, “Equipment and Systems Monitoring”, “Operation”, “Core and Studies”, “Radiation Protection, Environment and Labour Inspectorate” and “Regulation and New Facilities”. ཛྷ ཛྷ The Nuclear Pressure Equipment Department (DEP) is responsible for monitoring the safety of pressure equipment installed in BNIs. It monitors the design, manufacture and operation of NPE and application of the regulations by the manufacturers and their subcontractors and by the nuclear licensees. It also monitors the approved organisations performing the regulation checks on this equipment. The DEP comprises four Branches: “Design”, “Manufacturing”, “In-service Monitoring” and “Relations with Divisions and Operations”. ཛྷ ཛྷ The Transport and Radiation Sources Department (DTS) is responsible for monitoring activities relating to sources of ionising radiation in the non-medical sectors and to transport of radioactive substances. It contributes to the development of technical regulations, to monitoring their application and to managing authorisation procedures (installations and equipment emitting ionising radiation in non-medical sectors, suppliers of medical and non- medical sources, accreditation of packaging and of relevant organisations). It is preparing to take charge of regulating radioactive source security. The DTS comprises two Branches: “Transport Monitoring” and “Radiation Protection and Sources”, plus a “Source Security” section. From left to right: Sylvie Cadet-Mercier, Pierre-Franck Chevet, Lydie Évrard, Margot Tirmarche and Philippe Chaumet-Riffaud. THE COMMISSION From left to right: Christophe Quintin, Olivier Gupta, Anne-Cécile Rigail, Ambroise Pascal and Julien Collet (1st January 2018). THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE