• Decree 2024-1103 of 3 December 2024, issued in application of the provisions of Article 14 of Act 2024-450 of 21 May, 2024, relative to the organisation of nuclear safety and radiation protection governance, in order to address the challenges of the nuclear industry’s renewal Act 2024-450 of 21 May 2024, relative to the organisation of nuclear safety and radiation protection governance, in order to address the challenges of the nuclear industry’s renewal, created a new independent administrative Authority, the Authority for Nuclear Safety and Radiation Protection (ASNR), which on 1 January 2025 replaces the Nuclear Safety Authority (ASN) and the Institute for Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety (IRSN). The purpose of this Decree is to define the working procedures of the social dialogue bodies within the ASNR during the transitional period, before the creation of the ASNR’s Administration Social Committee (CSA), which is to take place no later than 31 March 2026. • Decree 2024-1135 of 4 December 2024 relative to the qualifications and training of pharmacists using radiopharmaceutical drugs or active implantable medical devices, with unsealed sources emitting ionising radiation The purpose of this Decree is to regulate the conditions for access to the activity of radiopharmacist (pharmacists operating within the framework of authorised nuclear medicine activities), through the inclusion of a new regulatory provision to the Public Health Code, requiring issue of an Order to define the diplomas and levels of qualification or experience determining this access. • Decree 2024-1186 of 19 December 2024 relative to the transfer of employment contracts and secondments set out in II and III of Article 11 of Act 2024-450 of 21 May 2024 relative to the organisation of the governance of nuclear safety and radiation protection This Decree concerns the employees of the Institute for Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety (IRSN) who, on 31 December 2024, were carrying out duties within the Institute’s nuclear expert assessment division, or duties relative to the supply and operation of passive dosimeters. It is issued in application of II and III of Article 11 of Act 2024-450 of 21 May 2024 relative to the organisation of the governance of nuclear safety and radiation protection, and specifies the procedures for the transfer of the employment contracts of the above-mentioned employees to the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) and the procedures for the secondment of certain of them to the Ministry of the Armed Forces. • Decree 2024-1194 of 19 December 2024 modifying various texts, to draw the consequences of the creation of the Authority for Nuclear Safety and Radiation Protection Act 2024-450 of 21 May 2024 relative to the organisation of the governance of nuclear safety and radiation protection in order to meet the challenges of the renewal of the nuclear sector, created a new independent administrative Authority, the Authority for Nuclear Safety and Radiation Protection (ASNR), which, as of 1 January 2025, replaces the Nuclear Safety Authority (ASN) and the Institute for Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety (IRSN), to carry out oversight and regulation, expert assessment and research activities with regard to the nuclear safety of civil installations, as well as radiation protection. The Decree contains the necessary updates to the Environment Code, the Administrative Justice Code, the Transports Code, the Domestic Security Code, as well as the Decrees in force, to take account of ASNR replacing ASN and IRSN and the coexistence within this new entity of public and private sector employees. • Decree 2024-1203 of 23 December 2024 relative to the transfer of the assets, rights and obligations of the Institute for Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety to the State and the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission, and modifying the latter’s activities This Decree organises the transfer of the assets, rights and obligations of the Institute for Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety to the State and the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission, and the legal conditions of this transfer. This text also specifies the procedures for producing, closing and approving IRSN’s financial accounts for the 2024 financial year. • Decree 2024-1238 of 30 December 2024 relative to the protection of workers against the hazards of ionising radiation The creation of the Authority for Nuclear Safety and Radiation Protection (ASNR) on 1 January 2025 requires modification of all the Articles of the Labour Code which mention the Institute for Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety (IRSN), replacing it with ASNR, except for passive dosimetry activities which are taken over by the Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission. In addition to replacing the names of the IRSN and ASN by that of ASNR, certain provisions relative to these duties must be changed to take account of the independent administrative Authority status of the new entity, and the merging within a single entity of regulation and expert assessment activities, as well as the provision of services to third parties against remuneration. This Decree also creates the “radiological safety zone”, for particular situations and clarifies the approach for preventing the risk of occupational exposure to radon from the soil (radon directly generated by rocks in the soil or secondarily by water circulating through these rocks, or the materials extracted from these rocks). Finally, this Decree transforms the certificates of the Radiation Protection Advisors (RPAs) and Certificates of competence for the handling of industrial radiology equipment (CAMARI) into professional certifications consistent with common vocational training law as derived from Act 2018-771 of 5 September 2018 concerning the freedom to choose one’s professional future. It also completes the recognition of the systems of radiation protection experts and operatives required by Directive 2013/59/Euratom of 5 December 2013. • Decree 2024-1240 of 30 December 2024 modifying various regulatory provisions relative to protection against ionising radiation This Decree draws the consequences of Act 2024-450 of 21 May 2024, relative to the organisation of nuclear safety and radiation protection governance, in order to address the challenges of the renewal of the nuclear sector, by modifying the provisions of the Public Health Code and the non-codified regulatory texts. Its purpose is notably to replace the former names of the Nuclear Safety Authority (ASN) and the Institute for Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety (IRSN) by the new name Authority for Nuclear Safety and Radiation Protection (ASNR). • Decree 2024-1241 of 30 December 2024 relative to the conditions for the performance of remunerated activities by the departments of the Authority for Nuclear Safety and Radiation Protection and to the procedures for the approval of technical regulations issued by this Authority This Decree specifies the conditions in which the departments of the Authority for Nuclear Safety and Radiation Protection can carry out the activities set out in Article L. 592-14-2 of the Environment Code, the procedures for the approval of certain decisions set out in Article L. 59220 of the same Code, as well as the conditions in which the results of research programmes set out in Article L. 592-28-2 of the same Code can be commercially exploited. Regulatory News 34 ABSTRACTS – ASN Report on the state of nuclear safety and radiation protection in France in 2024
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