• Decree 2024-1278 of 31 December 2024 relative to the remuneration and hourly compensation for on-call work and interventions within the Authority for Nuclear Safety and Radiation Protection The Nuclear Safety Authority (ASN) and the Institute for Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety (IRSN) had two on-call and emergency situation organisations. The creation of the Authority for Nuclear Safety and Radiation Protection on 1 January 2025 requires modification of the texts governing on-call work, applicable only to public sector employees, to allow the operation of a single on-call organisation based on public sector and private sector employees, these latter being governed by IRSN’s existing collective bargaining agreements. The proposed changes are also designed to allow harmonisation of the amount of the compensation received by public and private sector employees, as set out in Article 10 of the Act 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. • Order of 14 May 2024 relative to the protection of ionising radiation sources against malicious acts within the scope of responsibility of the Ministry of the Armed Forces In order to take account of the organisation of the specific working methods of the Ministry of the Armed Forces, this Order adapts several provisions of the Order of 29 November 2019, as amended, concerning the protection of ionising radiation sources and batches of radioactive sources of categories A, B, C and D against malicious acts. It takes up many of the provisions of the above-mentioned Order of 29 November 2019, thus adopting an approach proportionate to the issues and ensuring consistency between the applicable requirements, whether the ionising radiation sources are held, used, or transported within the framework of civil or military nuclear activities. • Order of 15 May 2024 relative to radon risk prevention and the implementation of a radon zone and the corresponding checks, within the framework of the reinforced worker protection system This Order is issued in application of Article R. 451-35 of the Labour Code, to set the terms and conditions specific to radon from the soil for implementing the “radon zone” mentioned in Article R. 445123 of the Labour Code, and the technical conditions for ensuring the intermittent nature of this zone. It also stipulates certain provisions for the risk prevention and reduction approach, as well as implementation of the reinforced measures to prevent the radon risk. Man-made radon resulting from a professional activity (industrial processes, residues, waste, etc.) is not covered by this text. • Order of 6 August 2024 relative to the training of occupational physicians and other occupational health professionals providing reinforced individual monitoring of a worker exposed to ionising radiation and to the conditions for the issue of the supplementary approval of occupational health departments This Order is issued in application of Articles R. 4451-85 and R. 4451-86 of the Labour Code, to set the terms and conditions for the specific training and supplementary modules required for the occupational health professionals mentioned in the first section of I of Article L. 4624-1 of the Labour Code, to allow supplementary approval of various types of occupational health departments for the performance of the reinforced individual monitoring set out in Article R. 4451-82 of the same Code and Article R. 717-16 of the Rural and Maritime Fishing Code. • Order of 10 December 2024 designating the restructuring operation within the Institute for Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety entitling the staff to compensation and assistance This Order is relative to the reorganisation of the Institute for Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety accounting office. • Order of 31 December 2024 relative to the transfer of assets, rights and obligations of the Institute for Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety This Order is issued in application of Article 9 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. Pursuant to the provisions of Decree 2024-1264 of 31 December 2024 relative to the immediate entry into force of Orders, the Order of 31 December 2024 enters into force with immediate effect as of its publication in the Official Journal of the French Republic, that is 1 January 2025. • Modification of the Order of 7 February 2012, setting the general rules concerning Basic Nuclear Installations (“BNI Order”) The work to revise this Order continued in 2024. ASN resolutions Basic Nuclear Installations Reminder of a resolution issued in 2023 (included in the 2023 annual report), but approved in 2024: • ASN resolution 2023-DC-0770 of 7 November 2023 modifying ASN resolution 2017-DC-0616 of 30 November 2017 relative to noteworthy modifications to basic nuclear installations (approved by the Order of 9 February 2024 approving ASN resolution 2023-DC-0770 of 7 November 2023 modifying ASN resolution 2017-DC-0616 of 30 November 2017 relative to noteworthy modifications to basic nuclear installations) This resolution defines the requirements applicable to the noteworthy modifications made during the construction phase of a basic nuclear installation. Prior to this modification, resolution 2017-DC-0616 was in fact only applicable to the modifications made after commissioning of the installations. This resolution in particular defines the list of modifications subject to notification during the construction phase and those requiring ASN authorisation. It also adapts certain criteria concerning the notification system, to take account of lessons learned from application of resolution 2017-DC-0616 since it entered into force on 1 July 2019. Regulatory News ABSTRACTS – ASN Report on the state of nuclear safety and radiation protection in France in 2024 35
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