ASN Report 2017

179 ASN report on the state of nuclear safety and radiation protection in France in 2017 Chapter 06  - Informing the public and other audiences 2.4.3 The Local Information Committees (CLI) The CLIs have a general duty of monitoring, informing and consultation concerning nuclear safety, radiation protection and the impact of nuclear activities on humans and the environment with regard to the installations of the nuclear site around which they have been created. 5 Operating framework The CLIs, whose creation is incumbent upon the President of the conseil départemental (departmental council), comprise various categories of members: representatives of departmental councils, of the municipal councils or representative bodies of the groups of municipalities and conseils régionaux (regional councils) concerned, members of Parliament elected in the département , representatives of environmental or economic interest protection associations, employee and medical profession union organisations, and qualified personalities. The representatives of State services, including ASN, and of the licensee have an automatic right to participate in the work of a CLI in an advisory capacity. The TECV Act provides for the participation of foreign members in the CLIs of border départements . The CLIs are chaired by the President of the departmental council or by an elected official from the département designated by him for this purpose. They receive the information they need to function from the licensee, from ASN and from other State services. They may request expert assessments or have measurements taken on the installation’s discharges into the environment. Further to the redefining of the Off-site Emergency Plan (PPI) zones, the decree relative to BNIs and transparency in the nuclear field provides for the adaptation of the composition and competencies of the CLIs. ASN considers that the good functioning of the CLIs contributes to safety. ASN aims to ensure that the CLIs receive information that is as complete as possible. Representatives of the ASN regional divisions regularly attend CLI meetings. The ASN regional divisions also invite CLI representatives to take part in inspections. At present, only the ASN inspectors have an enforceable right of access to the licensee’s facilities. This means that the consent of the licensee is necessary for observers from CLIs to participate in inspections. ASN encourages BNI licensees to facilitate CLI access to the files concerning procedures in which the CLI’s opinion will be required. Similarly, ASN considers that the development of a diversified range of expertise in the nuclear field is essential if the CLIs are to be able to base their opinions, when needed, on the work of experts other than those called on by the licensee or ASN itself. The CLIs are financed by the regional authorities and by ASN. ASN devotes about one million euros per year to the financial support of the CLIs and their federation. Within the 5 . The operating framework of the CLIs is defined by Articles L. 125-17 to L. 125-33 of the Environment Code and by Decree 2008-251 of 12th March 2008 relative to the CLIs for the BNIs. framework of its reflections on the financing of the oversight of nuclear safety and radiation protection, ASN has again suggested to the Government the application of the provision of the TSN Act of 13th June 2006, to add to the budget of the CLIs with association status (there are about ten of them) with a matching contribution of funds drawn from the BNI Tax; however, this provision has not yet been implemented. All BNI sites have a CLI, except for the Ionisos facility in Dagneux in the Ain département. This means that there are 35 CLIs governed by the Environment Code. To this total we must add the Bure underground laboratory CLIS (Local Information and Monitoring Committee), created in application of Article L. 542-13 of the Environment Code and whose composition and role are similar to those of a CLI. The 35 CLIs count nearly 3,000 unpaid members, including 1,500 elected officials. For the nuclear sites concerning Defence, which are regulated by the delegate to nuclear safety and radiation protection for defence-related activities and installations, Articles R. 1333-38 and R. 1333-39 of the Defence Code provide for the creation of information committees quite similar to the CLIs but whose members are appointed by the State and not by the President of the departmental council. There are about fifteen such committees. For the Valduc site, in addition to the information committee there is also an associative consultation structure called the Seiva (Structure for exchanges and information on Valduc). The CLI activities The CLIs organise plenary meetings and set up specialist commissions. The TECV Act obliges each CLI to hold at least one public meeting per year. The majority of the CLIs have applied this provision, either by opening one of the CLI meetings to the public, or by organising an event designed especially for the Poster for the meeting of the Normandie CLIs: retrospective on the lessons learned from Fukushima, six years after the accident.