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IMPARTIALITY
The commissioners perform their duties with total impartiality and receive no instructions from either the Government or any other person or institution.
INDEPENDENCE
The commissioners perform their duties on a full-time basis. Their mandate is for six years and is not renewable.
A member may only be relieved of his or her duties if no longer capable of performing them or in the event of resignation duly confirmed by a majority of the commissioners at a meeting of the Commission. The President of the Republic may also relieve a member of the Commission of his or her duties in the event of a serious breach of his or her obligations.
COMPETENCE
The Commission takes decisions and issues opinions, published in the ASN's Official Bulletin.
It defines ASN's external relations policy, both domestically and internationally.
It defines ASN's regulatory policy. The Chairman appoints nuclear safety inspectors, radiation protection inspectors, conventional safety inspectors in the nuclear power plants and officers in charge of checking compliance with the requirements applicable to pressure vessels.
The Commission opens an enquiry subsequent to an incident or accident. It drafts the report on nuclear safety and radiation protection in France. Its chairman presents ASN’s activities to the competent commissions of the National Assembly and the Senate, as well as to the Parliamentary Office for the Evaluation of Scientific and Technological Choices.
It drafts ASN internal regulations and appoints its representatives to the High Committee for Transparency and Information on Nuclear Security.
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The commission which came on to being on the 13th Novembre 2006 presents ASN report on nuclear safety and radiation protection in France in 2006. This report is required by article 7 of law 2006-686 of 13 June 2006 concerning nuclear transparency and safety. 
