Wednesday Daily Plenary

Thank you for the kind introduction. Good morning ladies and gentlemen. It is a pleasure and an honor for me to be here with you this morning. First of all I want to thank the Patram organizers who have allowed me to present to you this morning the point of view from an overseas regulator. ASN I represent here is in charge of regulation and control, emergency preparedness and information of the public for all civilian nuclear activities in France. And all of these nuclear activities’ common point is they all need transportation and safe transportation. I would like today to share the perspective of the competent authority ASN, on the current state of transport safety. A very important and obvious feature of the transport safety is the weight of the international consult safety regulation, is very important. I think that these regulations at our … in several respects, in particular when you compare them to other safety standards.