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Thierry SCHNEIDER, Sylvain ANDRESZ, Cynthia REAUD CEPN & NEA Consultant

Supranational mechanisms to support records, knowledge and memory preservation over the medium-term Conclusions of the report. Thierry SCHNEIDER, Sylvain ANDRESZ, Cynthia REAUD CEPN & NEA Consultant

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Thierry SCHNEIDER, Sylvain ANDRESZ, Cynthia REAUD CEPN & NEA Consultant

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  1. Supranational mechanisms to support records, knowledge and memory preservation over the medium-term Conclusions of the report Thierry SCHNEIDER, Sylvain ANDRESZ, Cynthia REAUD CEPN & NEA Consultant 4th meeting of the RWMC project on “Preservation of records, knowledge and memory across generation” 16-18 April 2013, Paris

  2. Introduction • Request from NEA for analysing supranational mechanisms, following previous investigations on long-term vigilance • Analysis of existing mechanisms, based on available documents • Focus on stakeholder involvement and multi-levels responsibility and decision process as well as development of expertise to support preservation of RK&M

  3. Analytical grid • Organisation of the supranational mechanism: • Type of mechanism and involved parties • Adoption of common goal and ethical charter • Financial mechanism and its sustainability • Multi-level responsibility and assessment of the dynamics and quality of the decision-making process • Contribution of the supranational mechanism to: • Development and mobilisation of expertise • Local sustainable development • Organisation of oversight and knowledge preservation

  4. List of supranational mechanisms analysed (1) • UNESCO • World Heritage Convention • Register of the Memory of the World • UNECE (United Nations Economic Commission for Europe): • Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context (Espoo Convention) • Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-Making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters (Aarhus Convention) • Convention for the Protection of the marine Environment of the North-East Atlantic (OSPAR Convention)

  5. List of supranational mechanisms analysed (2) • Link with IAEA: • Joint Convention on the Safety of Spent Fuel Management and on the Safety of Radioactive Waste Management • Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) • Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material • International Nuclear Information System (INIS) • European Commission (EC): • Directive establishing an Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the European Community (INSPIRE Directive) • Directive establishing a Community framework for the responsible and safe management of spent fuel and radioactive waste

  6. Organisation of the mechanism:Type of mechanism and involved parties • Mechanisms generally associated with International Organisations (UNO, EC,…) providing a general framework: • Technical and administrative support and platform of dialogue • Potential value of involving Member States for a common goal with voluntary involvement and adhesion to a common objective (dynamics of a Convention) • Openness and evolution of the Convention partnership with advisory bodies and possible observers, not only from member states • Capacity of action limited in case of conflict if not mandatory

  7. Organisation of the mechanism:Adoption of common goal and ethical charter • Recognition of the individual and societal rights of protection and promotion of the undertaking of responsibility for each members • Adoption of common action plan • Concept of Outstanding universal values (World Heritage Convention) • ”Evolving" convention, relying on a voluntary involvement of Member States and addressing transboundary and transgenerational issues • Prime objective generally focus on economic development, while the supranational mechanisms emphasize societal and environmental issues

  8. Organisation of the mechanism:Financial mechanism and its sustainability • Mobilisation of regular funds facilitated through a more general framework (ex. UNESCO, IAEA) • Effectiveness of financial mechanism depends on the willingness/capacity of member states to provide dedicated funds over the medium and long-term • Efficiency relying on the capacity of the different stakeholders (at local/national/international) to mobilise dedicated resources for their involvement in the decision-making process 

  9. Organisation of the mechanism:Multi-level responsibility and decision process • Implementation depends on the willingness to reach compromise (Notably: in case of conflict and economic pressure) • The mechanisms provide efficient tools and frameworks to cope with information, participation and justice issues of the different stakeholders • Key role of a supranational mechanism to: • Increase Member States awareness on specific issues, generate watchfulness regarding the common goals • Sustain the identified common goal, • Detect problems, and if necessary to provide assistance

  10. Contribution of the mechanism to:Development and mobilisation of expertise • Key role of advisory bodies composed of networks of international experts with adoption of clear rules, ethical charter and common tools • Existence of mechanisms favouring the involvement of local, and pluralistic experts and contributing to the capacity building of the stakeholders • Development of guidelines for facilitating the dissemination of information/content of convention to local expertise • Contribution to local training centres in the World Heritage Convention, the Register of the Memory of the World and the INIS system

  11. Contribution of the mechanism to:Local sustainable development • A real challenge for the long-term sustainability but generally not addressed in the analysed mechanisms except for the World Heritage Convention and the Register of the Memory of the World • Relatively well managed through these two experiences on a case-by-case basis with preservation of the site and documentary heritage • But strong pressures on different natural sites associated with economic and social development perspective (e.g. in the case of conflict over oil exploration sites)

  12. Contribution of the mechanism to:Organisation of oversight and knowledge preservation • Interesting to have access to a database system developed in supranational structure grouping different sources of information and disseminating in national centres • Notably: Register of the Memory of the World, INIS, INSPIRE • Importance of implementing a dialogue platform to analyse and interpret collected information and discuss the ways to preserve these data • Usefulness of mechanisms encouraging the development of an “active memory” and its registration in the various records kept by the different stakeholders at different levels

  13. Conclusions (1) • Supranational mechanisms can contribute significantly to preservation of RK&M • Possibility for RWM issue to rely on such existing mechanisms • Need to identify the necessary adaptation of the mechanisms to cope with RK&M issues and the conditions of implementation (partnership, funding…)

  14. Conclusions (2) • Type of mechanism • Value of developing a supranational mechanism for RK&M in connection with existing international mechanisms • Interesting to rely on mechanisms dealing with nuclear issues for technical expertise • But mechanisms dealing with environmental or cultural issues provide valuable processes for addressing long-term RK&M issues • Common goal and ethical charter • Clear need for identifying a common goal regarding RK&M beyond the objective adopted in the convention on spent fuel • The concept of “outstanding universal values” could be further investigated

  15. Conclusions (3) • Financial mechanism and its sustainability • Value of implementing a joint cooperation with international organisations such as UNESCO or IAEA to effectively treat RK&M of RWM in the long-term • Multilevel governance • Need to further investigate how to assign key roles to the different stakeholders • Definition of a cooperation framework in case of intervention • Development and mobilisation of expertise • Need to avoid duplicating existing mechanisms • Establish links with IAEA Programme, Joint Convention on Spent Fuel and Radioactive Waste, NPTand INIS

  16. Conclusions (4) • Local sustainable development • Favour the sustainability by integrating the facility monitoring into a sustainable local social and economic development plan • Sustainable local development cannot be directly driven by a supranational mechanism on RK&M • Nevertheless, such a mechanism may create good conditions for the implementation and promotion of the local development • Oversight and knowledge preservation • Supranational mechanism favours the development of the active memory of the facility hosting radioactive waste • Usefulness to mobilise feedback experience of existing mechanisms to provide useful processes and know-how for preserving RK&M in RWM

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