ASN Report 2018

2.4.4  –  National association of local information committees and commissions (Anccli) Article L. 125-32 of the Environment Code provides for the constitution of a federation of CLIs and the Decree of 12 March 2008 details the missions of this federation. Anccli groups the 35 CLIs that exist in France. The Anccli has a scientific committee and has set up five thematic advisory groups (“Radioactive materials and waste”, “Post-accident - territories”, “Safety”, “Decommissioning” and “Health”). It is also heavily involved in the discussion and interchange bodies set up by its partners (HCTISN, ASN, IRSN, etc.). • Partnership with ASN Anccli interchanges with ASN very regularly and participates in several of its permanent or occasional working groups. Anccli fosters the enhancing of the technical competence of CLI members by organising thematic seminars with IRSN in the context of its expert assessment work carried out for ASN. Anccli, with ASN and IRSN, maintains a technical dialogue on the high-stake issues and takes part in the public consultations on nuclear questions. In 2018, ASN and Anccli worked on the drafting of the agreement that will bind them for the 2019-2022 period and will thus ensure the funding of the Anccli action plan for the CLIs • The activity of Anccli Anccli runs the network of CLIs that it represents. By ensuring a regular watch and issuing clarifications and information that can be readily understood by the general public, Anccli helps give the CLIs the means to fulfil their duties of informing the various audiences. Attentive to the concerns of the CLIs and in relation with diverse sources of expertise, Anccli conducts national reflections on nuclear safety issues and widely passes on the results of this work (Anccli positions) to the national and European bodies and to local elected officials and CLI audiences. The functional framework of the Local Information Committees and the Site Monitoring Committees The CLIs, whose creation is incumbent upon the President of the General Council of the département , comprise various categories of members: representatives of département General Councils, of the municipal councils or of the deliberative assemblies of the groups of communities and the Regional Councils concerned, members of Parliament elected in the département , representatives of environmental protection associations or of economic interests and representatives of employee trade union 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. The 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. 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. 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 national federation Anccli. Within the framework of its reflections on the financing of the oversight of nuclear safety and radiation protection, ASN regularly suggests to the Government the application of the provision of the TSN Act of 13 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. With regard to former nuclear sites, research laboratories and waste treatment sites, Site Monitoring Commissions (CSS) are gradually replacing the Local Information and Monitoring Committees (CLIS) in application of the Decree of 7 February 2012 ( * ) . Providing frameworks for discussion and information concerning the actions of the licensees of the targeted installations, they promote the informing of the public. They are, for example, kept informed of the incidents and accidents affecting the installations – and even of installation creation, extension or modification projects. ASN regularly takes part in the meetings and public information or consultation initiatives of the monitoring commissions of former mining sites or of sites contaminated by radioactive substances. This is the case more specifically for the monitoring commissions of the former mining sites of Écarpière (Loire Atlantique département ), Chardon (Loire Atlantique département ), Lignol (Morbihan département ), Malièvre (Vendée département ), Saint‑Priest-la-Prugne (Loire département ), Gueugnon (Saône-et-Loire département ), or the Curie Institute (Val-de-Marne département ) and Fort de Vaujours (Seine-et-Marne département ) sites. The issues at stake include the tightening of the environmental monitoring requirements and the monitoring of post-operational clean-out worksites. For the nuclear sites concerning Defence, which are under the oversight of the delegate for nuclear safety and radiation protection for activities and facilities concerning Defence, Articles R. 1333-38 and R. 1333-39 of the Defence Code provide for the setting up of information committees 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, an associative consultation structure – the Structure for exchange of information on Valduc (Seiva) – was created in 1996. (*) Issued in application of Article L. 125-2-1 of the Environment Code. 180  ASN report on the state of nuclear safety and radiation protection in France in 2018 05 – INFORMING THE PUBLIC AND OTHER AUDIENCES