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International relations

Chapter 07

ASN OBJECTIVES IN EUROPE AND WORLDWIDE
1. Action in Europe
2. Harmonisation of nuclear safety worldwide
3. Assistance requests
EU AND MULTILATERAL RELATIONS
1. European Union
  1. The Euratom Treaty
  2. The European Nuclear Safety Regulators' Group (ENSREG)
  3. The European Directive on the safety of nuclear installations
  4. The European working groups
  5. The western European nuclear regulators association
  6. Meeting of the Heads of the European Radiological Protection Competent Authorities Association (HERCA)
  7. Multilateral assistance actions
2. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
3. OECD's Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA)
4. Multinational Design Evaluation Program (MDEP)
5. The United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR)
6. International Radiation Protection Association (IRPA)
7. World Health Organisation (WHO)
8. The International Nuclear Regulators' Association (INRA)
9. The Association of nuclear regulators of countries operating French designed nuclear power plants (FRAREG)
10. The European ALARA Network and the European Radiation Protection Authorities Network
BILATERAL RELATIONS
1. Staff exchanges between ASN and its foreign counterparts
2. Bilateral cooperation between ASN and its foreign counterparts
3. ASN bilateral assistance
INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS
1. The Convention on Nuclear Safety (CNS)
2. The Joint Convention on the Safety of Spent Fuel Management and on the Safety of Radioactive Waste Management
3. The Convention on early notification of a nuclear accident
4. The Convention on assistance in the case of a nuclear accident or radiological emergency
5. The other conventions linked to nuclear safety and radiation protection
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES
OUTLOOK

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In 2011, in the field of international relations, ASN will endeavour to continue to make an active contribution to improving nuclear safety and radiation protection around the world. This aim will be pursued by maintaining strong and permanent ASN involvement in European and international bodies.

In Europe, the adoption of the directive on the safety of nuclear installations in June 2009 has paved the way for the creation of an EU regulatory framework going beyond radiation protection and which will be expanded in the near future. Particular attention will then be paid to the European situation with as a high point the negotiations in russels on the directives on “waste management ” and “basic standards”, without this diverting attention from other areas of international action. Also worthy of note is the organisation in Brussels, on 28−29 June 2011, of the first European conference on nuclear safety, an idea suggested by ASN, and which will be held under the aegis of ENSREG. And lastly, it will be essential in 2011 to promote the safety objectives recently adopted by WENRA initially at the European level and then internationally, to ensure that a thorough and far-reaching benchmark for safety predominates in new nuclear power plants. Internationally, ASN will pursue its actions in favour of assistance to “new nuclear countries” so that they create for themselves an effective safety infrastructure. ASN will also very probably be called upon to intensify its relations with countries already using nuclear power that have announced major power plant construction programmes.

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