On behalf of the State, the ASN regulates nuclear safety and radiation protection, in order toprotect workers, patients, the publicand the environment from the risks related to nuclear activities. ASN contributes to informing the public.

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CommissionersMichel BourguignonJean-Jacques DumontPhilippe JametMargot Tirmarche

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ChairmanPierre-Franck Chevet

The Commission defines ASN general policy

regarding nuclear safety and radiation protec-

tion. It takes the most important decisions. The

commission publishes opinions on the major

subjects within ASN's field of competence. The

commission opens an inquiry following an

incident or accident and reports to the French

Parliament.

The Commission consists of five commissioners

of whom the ASN president. The commissioners

perform their duties on a full-time basis. They

are appointed for a six-year term. Three of them

are designated by the President of the Republic

and one by the President of every parliamentary

assembly. The commissioners are irrevocable,

except exceptional situation, and liable to a duty

of impartiality.

Our goal is to ensure efficient, impartial, legitimate and credible regulation, recognised by the public and regarded internationally as a benchmark for good practice.

The commission

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ASN helps draft regulations, by submitting its opinion to the Government on draft decreesand ministerial orders, or issuing regulatory decisions of a technical nature. ASN ensures thatthe regulations are clear, accessible and proportionate to the safety issues.

ASN reviews the whole individual authorisation files concerning facilities and activities. ASN maydeliver all authorisations, except the major authorisations related to basic nuclear installations,such as those dealing with their creation or their decommissionning.

Authorising

ASN checks compliance with the rules and specifications to which the facilities or activitieswithin its scope of competence are subject. Inspection represents ASN's main regulatory activity.About 2 000 nuclear safety and radiation protection inspections are thus carried out everyyear. ASN has appropriate enforcement powers.

Monitoring

ASN informs the public and other stakeholders (environmental protection associations, localinformation committees, media etc.) of its activities and of the state of nuclear safety andradiation protection in France. Its website www.asn.fr and its Contrôle magazine are ASNpreferential ways of information.

Informing

ASN monitors the steps taken by the licensee to make the facility safe. It informs the public ofthe situation. ASN assists the Government. It in particular sends the competent Authorities itsrecommendations concerning the civil security measures to be taken.

In emergency situations

Regulating

Missions

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ASN has developped an integrated view of nuclearsafety and radiation protection: it considers notonly the technical and physical aspects of theareas and activities it regulates, but also thehuman and organisational factors.

This approach means that ASN also carriesout extensive regulation to protect human lifeand the environment against the hazards anddetrimental effects linked to ionising radiation,whatever type of facilities is concerned.

On behalf of the State, ASN regulates all civiliannuclear activities on French territory: nuclearpower plants; radioactive waste management;nuclear fuel transport; consignments of radio-active materials; medical installations; researchlaboratories, industrial activities etc.

Its regulation covers a range of activities andfacilities which are among the largest and mostdiverse anywhere in the world:

• 58 nuclear reactors in operation producingmost of the electricity consumed in France andone EPR-type reactor under construction;

• all French facilities involved in the fuelcycle, from enrichment to reprocessing;

• several thousand facilities or activities usingsources of ionising radiation for medical,industrial and research purposes (small-scale nuclear activities);

• several hundred thousand consignmentsof radioactive materials nationwide, everyyear.

Regulation of a wide diversity of activities and facilities

An integrated view of nuclear safety and radiation protection

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The organisation

ASN comprises head office departments andeleven regional divisions with competence forone or more administrative regions. This orga-nisation enables ASN to carry out its regulationand monitoring duties over the entire countryand in the overseas territories of France.

The head office departments are organisedthematically and are responsible at a nationallevel for their fields of activity.

The ASN regional divisions operate under the authority of the regional representatives,appointed by the ASN Chairman. They areASN's representatives in the regions and contri-bute locally to the ASN's public informationrole. The divisions carry out most of the directinspections on nuclear facilities, radioactivesubstances transport operations and small-scalenuclear activities.

In emergency situations, the divisions assist thePrefect of the departement, who is in charge of protection of the populations, and monitor ope-rations to safeguard the installation on the site.

Commis s ion

CHAIRMANPierre-Franck Chevet,

COMMISSIONERSMichel Bourguignon, Jean-Jacques Dumont, Philippe Jamet, Margot Tirmarche

HEAD OF PRIVATE OFFICELaurent Felber

BORDEAUX DIVISION Regional representativeEmmanuelle Baudoin

Regional HeadAnne-Cécile Rigail

CAEN DIVISION Regional representativeCaroline Guillaume

Regional HeadSimon Huffeteau

CHÂLONS-EN-CHAMPAGNEDIVISION

Regional representativeJ.-C. Villemaud

Regional HeadJean-Michel Ferat

DIJON DIVISION Regional representative

Corinne Etaix

Regional HeadAlain Rivière

LILLE DIVISION Regional representative

Michel Pascal

Regional HeadFrançois Godin

LYON DIVISION Regional representative

Françoise Noars

Regional HeadGrégoire

Deyirmendjian

MARSEILLE DIVISIONRegional representativeAnne-France Didier

Regional HeadPierre Perdiguier

ORLÉANS DIVISION Regional representative

Nicolas Forray

Regional HeadFabien Schilz

PARIS DIVISIONRegional representative

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Regional HeadDelphine Ruel

STRASBOURG DIVISIONRegional representative

Marc Hoeltzel

Regional HeadFlorien Kraft

PARIS

CHÂLONS-EN-CHAMPAGNE

CAEN

NANTES

STRASBOURG

LILLE

DIJONORLÉANS

LYON

BORDEAUX

MARSEILLE

NANTES DIVISIONRegional representative

HubertFerry-Wilczek

Regional HeadPierre Siefridt

MANAGEMENT AND EXPERTISE OFFICEMartine Baudoin

OFFICE OF ADMINISTRATIONLuc Chanial

Di rec to r-Genera l Of f i ce

DIRECTOR-GENERALJean-Christophe NielDEPUTY DIRECTOR-GENERAL

Alain Delmestre, Jean-Luc Lachaume, Sophie MourlonADVISER HEAD OF STAFF

Henri Legrand Nicolas Osouf

NUCLEAR POWER PLANT DEPARTMENT

Thomas Houdré

WASTE, RESEARCH FACILITIES AND

FUEL CYCLE FACILITIES DEPARTMENT

Lydie Évrard

ENVIRONMENT AND EMERGENCY

DEPARTMENT

Bénédicte Jenthon

NUCLEAR PRESSURE

EQUIPMENT DEPARTMENT

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TRANSPORT AND

SOURCES DEPARTMENT

Vivien Tran-Thien

COMMUNICATION AND PUBLIC

INFORMATION DEPARTMENT

Alain Delmestre

INTERNATIONAL RELATION

DEPARTMENT

Stéphane Pailler

IONISING RADIATION

AND HEALTH DEPARTMENT

Jean-Luc Godet

GUADELOUPE

GUYANE

MARTINIQUE

SAINT-PIERRE-ET-MIQUELON

LA RÉUNION

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As of October 1st, 2013.

In taking its decisions, ASN relies on externaltechnical expertise, in particular that of theInstitute for Radiation Protection and NuclearSafety (IRSN).

ASN also requests opinions and recommen-dations from seven Advisory Committees ofexperts working in a variety of scientific andtechnical fields.

The human and financial resources

Wide-ranging technical expertise

• staff, including more than 200 in the 11 regional ASN offices,

• inspectors,

• professional staff,

• With various backgrounds and skills: engineers, physicians, pharmacists,

lawyers, administrative personnel etc.

• Over million euros of annual budget, including 40 million for

personnel costs,

• million euros annually devoted to technical expertises.

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ASN informs the public, the medias, the insti-tutional stakeholders and the professionnals ofits activities primarily by means of its websitewww.asn.fr, also available in English at:www.french-nuclear-safety.fr.

The annual report on the state of nuclear safetyand radiation protection enables ASN to informParliament, in particular, of its activities, itsobjectives and the state of facilities and activitiesit regulates.

ASN issues a quarterly magazine Contrôle anda monthly newsletter La lettre de l’Autorité de

sûreté nucléaire for the information of stake-holders.

ASN submits its activities to international peerreviews.

A strong international presence

Willing to report on its activities

ASN's work on the international stage is impor-tant in that it offers an opportunity to share itsskills, compare its practices and working methodswith its peers and make a contribution to harmo-nising nuclear safety and radiation protectionprinciples and standards.

Permanent exchanges with its counterparts andinternational organisations are an effectivemeans of advancing nuclear safety and radiationprotection, both in France and abroad.

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The 2013-2015 multi-annual strategic plan

Take up the challenges of nuclear safety and radiation protection: oversight, independence and transparency.Line 1Enhance the legitimacy of ASN's resolutions, decisions and position statements.

Line 2Develop an efficient working environment and promote skills.

Line 3Develop our forward-looking approach.

Line 4Make the European framework a driving force for nuclear safety and radiation protection in the world.

Line 5Raise and fuel exchanges and discussions on the subject of nuclear safety and radiation protection.

The multi-annual strategic plan develops ASN's strategic lines for a period of three years.

It is drawn up through a participative approach involving all ASN employees.

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Our values

ASN relies on qualified teams with competence in the technical, legal, management

and communication fields. ASN ensures that it has adequate numbers of competent

staff to deal proportionately with the activities and issues it regulates. ASN spends

8% of its payroll on staff-training activities.

The status of independent administrative authority, granted to ASN by Act no. 2006-686

of 13 June 2006 on Transparency and Security in the Nuclear Field, confirms and

guarantees ASN's freedom of judgement, action and expression. Under the commission’s

leadership, ASN is able to work on its own terms, independently and in complete

impartiality.

Independence

Competence

ASN demands of its staff a degree of professional rigour comparable to that which it

requires of all those it regulates. This level of professionalism contributes both to its

credibility and its legitimacy.

Rigour

To ensure efficient, impartial, legitimate and credible regulation, recognised by the

public and regarded internationally as a benchmark for good practice, the provision

of information, involvement of stakeholders and accountability are essential. To this

end, ASN is developing a range of tools and information media and aims to involve

the stakeholders as extensively as possible in its decisions.

Transparency

All the latest news on nuclear safetyand radiation protection in France

Inspection follow-up letters, opinions and recommendations from Advisory Committees ofexperts, press releases, incident notifications, the report on the state of the nuclear safety andradiation protection, the Contrôle magazine etc. are available on:

www.asn.fr.ASN is also present on the social networks:

Facebook, Google+, Twitter, Dailymotion.

Since 2004, the Information Centre has been providing the general public and students, professionals and associations alike, with modern tools and comprehensive documentationcovering the areas of ASN oversight in order to provide information on nuclear safety andradiation protection and to promote a “nuclear risk culture”. The services the Centre providesinclude organising exhibitions and conferences, access to its specialised library and adminis-trative documents, and responding to queries from the public.

• From Monday to Friday, 10 am to Midday and 2 pm to 5 pm,• Open to the public, free access,• 15, rue Louis Lejeune - 92120 Montrouge,• Telephone + 33 1 46 16 40 16.

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