ASN Report 2020

1.3 ASN resolutions 1.3.1 Radiation protection ASN resolution 2020-DC-0694 of 8 October 2020 relating to the qualification of physicians or dental surgeons performing procedures using ionising radiation for medical or research purposes involving humans, to the qualifications required to be appointed coordinating physician for a nuclear activity for medical purposes or to request an authorisation or registra- tion as a natural person Article L. 1333-18 of the Public Health Code states that “ionising radiation may only be used on the human body for medical diagnostic, therapeutic treatment, screening, prevention or biomedical research purposes” . Article R. 1333-68 of this Code specifies that the examinations and procedures using ionising radiation for medical purposes are performed by physicians and dental surgeons who can justify the required competence and by radiographers intervening under their own responsibility. ASN’s resolution clarifies the definition of certain qualifications: 1. of the physician or dental surgeon performing procedures using ionising radiation for medical or research purposes involving humans; 2. the physician coordinating the steps taken to ensure radiation protection of the patients (Article R. 1333-131 of the Public Health Code); 3. the natural person responsible for a nuclear activity for medical purposes, in other words a physician who reports a nuclear activity to ASN or a physician who requests ASN authorisation for radiotherapy, nuclear medicine or computed tomography. This resolution repeals ASN resolution 2011-DC-0238 of 23 August 2011 relative to qualifications as defined in Article R. 1333-45 of the Public Health Code, required for persons responsible for a nuclear activity for medical purposes. 1.3.2 Pressure equipment ASN resolution 2020-DC-0688 of 24 March 2020 concerning the qualification of organisations tasked with the inspection of nuclear pressure equipment This resolution sets out the procedures for the qualification of organisations working in the field of nuclear pressure equipment inspection, whether with regard to manufacturing aspects or to in-service monitoring. It recognises the NF EN ISO/IEC 17020 “Conformity assessment – Requirements for the operation of various types of bodies performing inspection” and NF EN ISO/IEC 17021 “Requirements for bodies providing audit and certification of management systems” standards, supplemented by the specific requirements of Appendix 2, assuming compliance with the guarantees in terms of organisation, independence and competence, as set out in Articles L. 557-31 and R. 557-4-2 of the Environment Code. Appendix 1 sets out the process to be followed by a body applying for qualification or renewal, appendix 2 sets out the specific requirements to be obtained to obtain this qualification. This resolution repeals resolution 2007-DC-0058 of 8 June 2007. It entered into force on 2 July 2020, after publication of its approval Order of 25 May 2020 in the Official Journal . 1.4 The professional guides approved by ASN Guide No. 30 relative to policy for the management of risks and detrimental effects of nuclear installations and the licensees’ integrated management system ASN Guide No. 30 comprises the ASN recommendations for application: ∙ of Articles L. 593-6 and R. 593-63 of the Environment Code, as well as Part II of the Order of 7 February 2012 as amended setting out the general rules relative to BNIs; ∙ Articles L. 593-6-1 and R. 593-9 to R. 593-13 of the Environment Code, regulating the use of outside contractors by BNI licensees. These recommendations concern all BNIs, whether in the design, construction, commissioning, operation, final shutdown, decommissioning phases or, for radioactive waste disposal facilities, in the closure or surveillance phase. This Guide is part of the work to integrate into the French regulatory framework a number of positions adopted by Western European Nuclear Regulators Association (WENRA), in particular the “reference levels” for the existing reactors. The recommendations set out in this Guide are the result of several years of work by ASN and were the subject of technical exchanges with the French licensees. The guide was the subject of a public consultation on the ASN website in December 2019. ASN Report on the state of nuclear safety and radiation protection in France in 2020 37 REGULATORY NEWS