ASN Report 2020

In the same spirit, ASN considers that the development of a diversified range of expertise in the nuclear field is essential to enable the CLIs to base their opinions on expert assessments other than those carried out for the licensee or ASN itself. The CLIs and informing the various audiences 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. ASN promotes exchanges of good practices in order to make these public meetings moments of worthwhile discussion and opportunities to contribute to having a well-informed population. The majority of the CLIs have a website or have pages on the website of the local authority that supports them; some twenty CLIs publish a newsletter (sometimes as inserts in the news bulletin of a local authority). In 2020, the CLI conference was entirely restructured so that it could be held as a virtual event extending over one week. It brought together 340 participants via a digital platform. The programme focused on two key topics among the concerns of the CLIs: crisis management, based on the lessons learned from Covid-19 and from the Lubrizol accident, and post-accident management. The participants were also invited to a special session of the HCTISN plenary meeting devoted to taking account of the public’s contributions in the consultation concerning the 4th periodic safety review of the 900 MWe reactors. 2.4.4 National Association of Local Information Committees and Commissions Article L. 125-32 of the Environment Code provides for the setting up of an association of CLIs (see point 2.4.3), and the Decree of 12 March 2008 details the mandate of this federation. Anccli brings together the 34 French CLIs and the 34 committees put in place for the defence-related installations. 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 the IRSN in the context of its expert assessment work carried out for ASN. Anccli, with ASN and the IRSN, maintains a technical dialogue on the high-stake issues and takes part in the public consultations on nuclear questions. Each year, in collaboration with Anccli, ASN organises the national CLI Conference which is attended by more than 250 people and represents a day of experience-sharing and collective reflection on the issues common to 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. ASN Report on the state of nuclear safety and radiation protection in France in 2020 193 05 – INFORMING THE PUBLIC AND OTHER AUDIENCES 05